Ying Mao, MD, PhD, is the president of Huashan Hospital and professor of surgery at Fudan University. He has served as senior vice chief for the Neurosurgery Department at Huashan Hospital for more than a decade. He has been conferred on the Cheung Kong Scholar Distinguished Professor appointed by the Ministry of Education, Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. Dr. Mao is currently the president-elect of Chinese Neurosurgical Society and vice president of Chinese Congress of Neurological Surgeons, President of the Neurosurgery Branch of the Shanghai Medical Doctor Association. He is in charge of Shanghai International Tianqiao Chen Brain Research Institute which is partnered with California Institute of Technology, US.

Dr. Mao leads a team focused on two major cerebrovascular diseases with high disability and mortality rates – refractory cerebral aneurysms and moyamoya disease, pioneering individualized cerebrovascular reconstruction surgery internationally, continuously innovating this technology, solving a series of clinical problems, transforming “refractory” intracranial aneurysms into “treatable”; significantly improves the surgical efficacy and safety for moyamoya disease; and uses the molecular mechanisms of glioma formation, precise localization of brain functions, and therapeutic targets to improve the quality of life and survival time of patients with brain glioma.

Mao has a seat of the academic board at Fudan University, and authored over 500 scientific papers, reviews, and chapters in the field of microneurosurgery, neuroscience, neuro-oncology, and etc. He received the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2017 (First Contributor), the First Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award in 2018 and 2015 (First Contributor), and the Scientific Research Outstanding Achievement Award for Scientific and Technological Progress by the Ministry of Education in 2018 and 2015 (First Contributor).

He was given the Wu Jieping Medical Innovation Award, Shanghai “Outstanding Contribution Award for Medical Development”, the first “Outstanding Contribution Award for Young Scientists” in Shanghai, honored as “Shanghai Science and Technology Elite”, “Leading Talent” in Shanghai, and one of Shanghai’s “Top Ten Doctors”.