Dr. ZHU Yuming is the consultant of Shanghai Jiahui International Hospital and currently the director of the Thoracic Surgery Department at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital. He has worked within the thoracic surgery field at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital since 1988, focused on the standardized treatment of lung cancer and the surgical treatment of esophageal and mediastinal diseases as well as refractory tuberculosis. Since 1996, he has worked on minimally invasive surgeries, including thoracoscopes and mediastinoscopes, and has accumulated decades of experience in minimally invasive surgery.

Over the last ten years, Dr. Zhu has been engaged in clinical research on the surgical treatment of end-stage lung disease. Dr. Zhu’s project, The Application of Video-assisted Thoracoscopy in Pulmonary Surgery, won First Price at the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Awards, Second Price at the China Medical Science and Technology Awards, the Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Promotion Awards, as well as at the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Awards.

Dr. Zhu has a special allowance from the State Council and is a visiting professor at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin in Germany.

Specialties
1. The treatment of benign lung diseases, bronchiectasis, mediastinal tumors, and early-stage lung cancer using minimally invasive surgical approaches, including video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
2. Standardized treatment of lung cancer.
3. Lung volume reduction surgery, lung transplantation, and other treatment methods for end-stage lung disease.