Yong Huo

HUO Yong is currently the Director of the Department of Cardiology at Peking University First Hospital in Beijing, China. He is also a Vice President of the China Cardiovascular Association (CAA), President of the Asian Society of Cardiology (ASC), and President of the World Association of Chinese Cardiologists (WACC).

As a specialist in cardiovascular medicine and Immediate Past President of the Chinese Society of Cardiology, Professor Huo has made outstanding contributions to the national cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease prevention and control.

Professor Huo has a high reputation in the area of percutaneous coronary intervention since he contributes to its popularization, standardization, and development in China. He established the whole system of China Chest Pain Center accreditation and promoted regional STEMI care network construction in China.

Professor Huo’s other major research and clinical interest is H-type hypertension and stroke prevention and takes an international leading position. He demonstrates the major causes of high stroke incidence in China and then provides a new, simple and effective treatment strategy with folic acid supplementation for stroke prevention in Chinese hypertensive patients.

Professor Huo is in charge of the construction of the national cardiovascular disease quality control and specialist training and certification system. He leads to develop a number of national standards for disease diagnosis and treatment, guidelines, and consensus on cardiovascular disease.

Professor Huo has led serial national funding projects for coronary heart disease and hypertension. His research has been widely published in over 150 leading peer-reviewed medical journals such as JAMA with IF over 650. He has also developed 68 academic monographs on interventional cardiology and cardiovascular medicine. Additionally, he had 6 patents of invention and won the second award of the Scientific and Technological Progress of the State twice and several other awards.