Jiefu Huang

National Health Commission, Beijing, China 

Professor Jiefu Huang serves as the Chairman of the China Organ Donation and Transplantation Committee, Dean of the Hospital Management Research Institute of Tsinghua University, Professor of Surgery at Union Medical College of China and Tsinghua University, Member of The Transplantation Society and Member of the Task Force on Donation and Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues, World Health Organization. 

Prof. Huang is a renowned organ transplant and hepatobiliary surgeon as well as an expert in the field of medical education and healthcare management in China. He has been long committed to liver transplantation academic research and the reform of organ transplantation system in China. He is widely recognized as a prominent leader in the revolutionary reform of China’s organ transplantation to regulate China’s organ transplantation program by international transplant community. He is committing China to a new era in organ donation and transplantation consistent with the internationally accepted ethical standards. His research interests include hepatobiliary surgery, organ donation and transplantation, hospital management, etc. He is also the editor-in-chief of 18 books, and has published 449 articles in the Lancet, GUT, the American Journal of Surgery, the Liver Transplantation, the Transplantation, etc. 

Haibo Wang

The First Affliliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Haibo Wang, MBBS, MSc, MPH, is a research professor, the Director of Clinical Trial Unit, Director of Research Centre of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine; and Deputy Dean of Institute of Precision Medicine of The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China. 

He is also the founder and key architect of of China national organ allocation system (China Organ Transplant Response System, COTRS), which played a crucial role in the reformation on organ donation for China. He is a member of the World Health Organization Task Force on Organ Donation and Transplantation. He is the vice Chairman of Professional Committee of the Management on the Application of Big Data in Health and Medicine, China Hospital Association. His research focuses on utilizing big data in public policy initiatives on organ transplantation, non-communicable diseases and infectious diseases. He has published in medical journals including NEJM, Lancet and BMJ.

Nashan Björn

First Affiliated Hospital, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Professor Björn Nashan is currently Professor of Surgery and the Director of the Organ Transplant Center at the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui, PR China. Prof. Nashan has published extensively in the fields of transplantation, immunosuppression, and hepatobiliary surgery (more than 325 manuscripts in e.g., Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, American Journal of Transplantation, Transplantation etc.) and serves on multiple advisory boards for various organizations, companies, and government bodies.

Xiao-Mei Zhai

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China 

Xiao-Mei Zhai, Ph.D., Professor and Executive Director, Center for Bioethics, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College; Professor and Supervisor of Ph.D. candidate in School of Population Medicine and Public Health. She is Fellow of the Hastings Center. Currently she serves as the Member of the Global Expert Committee on Gene Editing Ethics, and Ethics and COVID-19 Working Group of the World Health Organization, and the Member of Ethics Committee of the International Stem Cell Society, the Member of National Science and Technology Ethics Committee, the Vice Chair of Medical Ethics Expert Committee of National Health Commission, the Member of Science and Technology Ethics Committee of Education Ministry, and the Member of National Expert Committee of Human Organ Donation and Transplantation.

Eric Ford, Ph.D., University of Alabama Birmingham, AL, USA [Section: Management of medical technology application]

Douglas Hough, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA [Section: Health economics]

Liqun Fang, Ph.D., State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Wuhan, China [Section: Major diseases and public health]

Xiaodong Tan, Ph.D., Wuhan University, Wuhan, China [Section: Major diseases and public health]

Yingjie Tian, Ph.D., School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences;Research Center of Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China [Section: Data science and health informatics]

Yang Wu, Ph.D., Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China [Section: Management of medical technology application]

Jie Yang, Ph.D., Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China [Section: Data science and health informatics]

Yansui Yang, Ph.D., Tsinghua University, Beijing, China [Section: Policy, standard, and ethics]

Changzheng Yuan, Ph.D., School of Public Health Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China [Section: Major diseases and public health]

Xianbo Zuo, M.D., China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China [Section: Data science and health informatics]

Shouyang Wang, Ph.D., The University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China [Section: Policy, standard, and ethics]