Endocrinology and Metabolism

Liao Zhihong

Chief physician

Overview

Clinical Interests：

The current research field is Pituitary tumor and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism

A specialist in diabetes, obesity and metabolism diseases, thyroid diseases, hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis disorders, adrenal diseases, premenopausal syndrome, osteoporosis

Medical Education：

MD & PhD

Work Experiences：

Deputy Director of Endocrinology Department, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

Biography

• Being a clinician in the hospital for thirty years, while studied and worked for one year in UK (Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, University College London) and two years in Canada (University of British Columbia);

• Being an investigator or a principal sub-investigator or a principal investigator of several local or global clinical trials;

• Has got about seventy research articles published and ten items of provincial or municipal research funds granted;

• Being a supervisor of master degree postgraduate students.

Membership

1. Committee member of Guangdong Provincial Diabetes Association;

2. Vice chairman of sports and health promotion committee, Guangdong Health Management Association;

3. Member of the epidemiology committee, Chinese Diabetes Society;

4. Member of the committee of metabolic cardiovascular diseases, Chinese Cardiology Society

5. Member of the pituitary adenoma committee, Chinese Endocrinology Society

6. Member of the obesity committee, Chinese Endocrinology Society

7. Member of China Pituitary Adenoma Specialist Council