Tong Xiaoguang 

Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Tianjin Huanhu Hospital; Head of the Neurosurgery Expert Group; Director of the Tianjin Institute of Neurosurgery; Director of the Microsurgical Neurosurgery Laboratory; and Doctoral Supervisor at Tianjin Medical University and Tianjin University.

Professor Tong is a recipient of the State Council Special Government Allowance and was among the inaugural recipients of the National Outstanding Physician honor. He has also been recognized as a National Young and Middle-Aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions to Health, a Tianjin Expert with Outstanding Contributions, a Haihe Scholar of Tianjin, and a Tianjin Famous Physician. He was selected as a First-Tier Talent of the Tianjin “131” Innovative Talent Development Program and as the leader of its inaugural innovation team.

Professor Tong is a member of the North American Skull Base Society (NASBS). He serves as Deputy Chair of the Continuing Medical Education and Capacity Building Committee of the National Health Commission, as well as Head of its Basic Neurosurgical Techniques Training Group. He also serves as Chair of the Neurosurgery Branch of the Tianjin Medical Doctor Association.

Professor Tong specializes in the endovascular, microsurgical, and hybrid treatment of cerebrovascular diseases, as well as surgery for complex and challenging skull base tumors involving the lateral skull base and endoscopic midline skull base regions. He has extensive expertise in cerebral revascularization and a wide range of cerebrovascular bypass procedures.

Ji Xunming 

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering; President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College; Member of the Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; and President of the Beijing Institute for Brain Disorders. He also serves as Director of the Stroke Center at Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, and is a Chief Physician, Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor.

Professor Ji specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular diseases and complex neurological disorders. He serves as Chair of the Expert Committee of the National Health Commission’s “Million Disability Reduction Project,” Director of the National Engineering Research Center for Internet Medical Diagnosis and Treatment Technologies, Director of the National Stroke Emergency Center, Chair of the Expert Committee of the China Healthy Aging Promotion Project, and President of the International Society of Adaptive Medicine.

Professor Ji has led numerous major national research programs and projects, including the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), the National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program), the National Key R&D Program of China, major military–civilian integration projects, and major projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has conducted systematic and innovative research in the fields of both arterial and venous stroke.

His research findings, with Professor Ji serving as corresponding author, have been published in leading international journals including The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and Nature. He has been named an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher for five consecutive years.

Professor Ji has received 104 authorized patents, software copyrights, and other intellectual property rights. His major honors include two Second Prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, four First Prizes of provincial- and ministerial-level Science and Technology Progress Awards, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress, the Wu Jieping Medical Innovation Award, and the National Innovation Excellence Award.

Ming Dong 

Vice President of Tianjin University; Dean of the Health Science Center; and Chair Professor. He is a Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), a Member of the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society, Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Committee of the Jiusan Society Central Committee, and Vice Chair of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Jiusan Society.

Professor Ming serves as President of the National Institute of Health and Medical Big Data under the National Health Commission; Director of the Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Medical Engineering of the Ministry of Education; Director of the Tianjin Center for Brain Science and Brain-Inspired Intelligence Research; and Director of the Haihe Laboratory of Brain–Computer Interaction and Human–Machine Integration.

He is a recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in the Division of Health Sciences and was among the inaugural recipients of the Excellent Young Scientists Fund in the same division. He has also been selected for the National High-Level Talent Special Support Program and the second cohort of Tianjin Distinguished Talents. He is a recipient of the State Council Special Government Allowance and serves as a Member of the Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Education. He is also Deputy Chair of the Brain–Computer Interface Subcommittee (SAC/TC28/SC43) of the National Information Technology Standardization Technical Committee.

Professor Ming is Vice President of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering and was elected to its inaugural class of Fellows (CSBME Fellow). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in the United Kingdom.

He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of three academic journals: ENGINEERING Biomedical Engineering, Journal of Intelligent Medicine, and Journal of Brain–Computer Interfaces. He has been granted more than 200 invention patents and software copyrights in China, the United States, and other jurisdictions. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of several academic monographs and textbooks, including Neural Engineering (Science Press), Introduction to Neural Engineering (People’s Medical Publishing House), and Wave Theory and Its Applications in Biomedical Engineering (China Machine Press).

Professor Ming has been repeatedly included in rankings of the world’s leading scientists. His research papers have received distinctions including the IOP Publishing Highly Cited Paper Award, and his work has been featured by Science and in special publications of Nature.

His honors include the 24th Qiushi Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the China Association for Science and Technology and recognition as one of the 7th Cohort of “Jiusan Models” by the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society, among numerous other distinctions. His research achievements have also been selected for major national exhibitions, including the National Science and Technology Innovation Achievements Exhibition of the 13th Five-Year Plan and the “Forging Ahead in the New Era” National Achievement Exhibition.

Ge Le  

Former Secretary of the Party Committee of Tianjin Huanhu Hospital; Dean of the Tianjin Branch of the National Stroke Academy, Tianjin University; Chief Physician; M.D., Ph.D.; and Doctoral Supervisor.

Dr. Ge serves as Head of the Head and Neck Neuro-Oncology Multidisciplinary Collaboration Group at Tianjin Huanhu Hospital and as an Executive Council Member of the Tianjin Medical Insurance Research Association.

Throughout her career, Dr. Ge has held a number of senior clinical and administrative positions. She previously worked in the Department of Hematology and the Cancer Center at Xijing Hospital of the former Fourth Military Medical University, and later served as Director of the Department of Oncology and Hematology at the former General Hospital of the Second Artillery Corps. She subsequently served as Director of the Medical Affairs and Education Department at Peking University Cancer Hospital.

Dr. Ge has also held senior administrative positions within the Tianjin municipal health authorities, serving as Director of the Medical Administration Division, Hospital Administration Division, and Healthcare Reform Office of the former Tianjin Municipal Health Bureau and the Tianjin Municipal Health Commission. She later served as President and Secretary of the Party Committee of Tianjin Huanhu Hospital. She was also a visiting scholar at the National Cancer Center Hospital, Japan.

Dr. Ge has received numerous national and municipal honors, including National Innovative Hospital President for Improving Medical Services, National Model Hospital President for the Stroke Prevention and Treatment Project of the National Health Commission, National Model Veteran, and Tianjin Model Veteran. She is also a recipient of the Tianjin May 1st Labor Medal and has been honored as a Tianjin March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetter.

Her principal professional interests include the comprehensive diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment of head and neck neuro-oncological diseases, as well as the integrated prevention, control, and management of stroke.