Dong Jiahong

In 1996, Dong taught as a tenured professor at the Hepatobiliary Surgery Center at the Army Medical University. In 1998, he was promoted to surgeon-in-chief of the Hepatobiliary Surgery Center at the Third Military Medical University, and in 2006, became head of the Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital in Beijing, China.^[4]

In 2014, Dong became executive president of Beijing Tsinghua Changgung. Two years later in 2016, Dong and a team of doctors launched the first internet-based alliance of hepatobiliary disease clinics in China to help rural patients gain access to healthcare.^[5]

In 2019, Dong led a research team at Tsinghua University which developed a COVID-19 Intelligent Monitoring and Control System, integrating big data, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence with clinical medicine.^[6] He also remotely led a medical team in Shenzhen from Beijing, completing the world's first remote and cooperative brain surgery using 5G technology.^[7][8]

Dong serves as the editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Digestive Surgery,^[9] and according to publication aggregator ResearchGate, has published alongside co-authors 124 papers.^[10]

In 2015, Dong was elected an honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association,^[11] and an honorary fellow of the French Academy of Surgery for his works in technical surgery, and surgical education.^[12] In 2017, he was elected an Academician of the Division of Medicine and Hygiene.^[13]