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Zhong Nanshan (Chinese: 钟南山; born October 1936) is a Chinese pulmonologist, who discovered the SARS coronavirus in 2003. He was the President of the Chinese Medical Association from 2005 to 2009 and is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Thoracic Disease. He is most well known for managing the SARS outbreak in Guangdong province =SARS hero named among China's 10 best scientists, technicians|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-12/06/c_13637285.htm%7Cpublisher=Xinhua%7Caccessdate=20 July 2013}}</ref>

Education

Zhong was born in October, 1936 in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Zhong was educated in Beijing Medical University and finished his residency training in internal medicine in the university hospital. In 1980s, he completed further training at the St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and the University of Edinburgh Medical School between 1979 and 1981. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh Medical School with an MD in 1981.

Career

Zhong became President of the Chinese Thoracic Society in 2000. He became President of the Chinese Medical Association in 2005. He is currently the director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Thoracic Disease. Zhong has discovered the relationship between protein malnutrition and COPD and has developed a calibrated formula on energy consumption for patients with COPD.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Zhong Nanshan, MD". Journal of Thoracic Disease. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  2. ^ "Zhong Nanshan". The HoLeung Ho Lee Foundation. Retrieved 20 July 2013.

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