Yingfang Ao MD

Professor Ao specializes in fields of a knee injury, ligament reconstruction, and arthroscopic minimally invasive surgery. He is one of the first surgeons to introduce arthroscopy into China and now is one of the leading specialists in sports medicine and arthroscopy in China, with outstanding achievement in both clinical practice and research work. He has been the Principal Investigator of many national competitive grants such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, China National Science & Technology Pillar Program, etc.

He has been honored with a number of national awards for outstanding scientific & technological achievement such as the National Science & Technology Progress Award, the 9th Wu Jieping Medical Research Award-Paul Janssen Pharmacy Research Award (Sports Medicine), etc. Prof. Ao has published more than 120 papers including papers in indexed international journals in the fields of orthopedics surgery, arthroscopy & sports medicine. He is also the editor-in-chief of many books in Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy, Orthopaedic Traumatology such as Knee Arthroscopic Surgery; Techniques of Sports Injury Surgery; Chinese Orthopaedics (Sports Injury) which are now considered as standard textbooks in China.