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Professor S. T. Fan, was born in 1952, in Chaoyang City, Guangdong Province, a fellow of four surgical colleges holding four doctorate degrees (MS (Doctorate), MD, PhD, and DSc), started his academic career in 1987 as Lecturer at Department of Surgery, The University of Hong Kong, and was appointed as Chair Professor of Surgery in 1993. He was chief of Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery from 1988 to 2008 and was promoted to head of Department of Surgery in mid 2008 till now.
A dedicator to clinical medicine and medical science, Professor Fan has been engaged in clinical practice and research in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery as well as liver transplantation for decades. His preeminence in liver transplantation, hepatocellular carcinoma, intrahepatic stones and acute pancreatitis is internationally recognized. He performed the first successful liver transplantation in Hong Kong in 1991. In 1996, he performed the first successful adulttoadult rightlobe living donor liver transplantation in the world. He also innovated the anterior approach in rightliver hepatectomy.
Professor Fan has been accorded a dozen of academic honors. In 2001, he was awarded the Distinguished Research Achievement Award by The University of Hong Kong. In 2005, he and his team were awarded the First Class Award in the category of State Scientific and Technological Progress Award in the State Science and Technology Awards of China. In the same year, he was elected as Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering under the category of Medical and Health Engineering. In 2008, he was awarded the TTS-Genzyme Award for Innovation in Surgery and Technology by The Transplantation Society.
Professor Fan’s research output currently accumulates to around 700 papers in journals, nearly 600 abstracts in proceedings of conferences, 25 book chapters, and one book. His publications have been cited nearly 17000 times and he ranks top 1% scientists in Clinical Medicine by citations in the world. The publications record his intensive clinical research on liver transplantation and diseases common in Asia, namely, hepatocellular carcinoma, hepatitis B, cirrhosis, intrahepatic stones, and acute biliary pancreatitis.
Besides being a renowned scholar, Professor Fan is also a respected mentor. He has supervised 41 postgraduate students and trained dozens of senior surgeons and surgical fellows.
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