Bing Peng, MD, PHD, FACS

Bing Peng, professor and chief physician, received the doctor's degree of surgery from the West China Medical University in July 1996 and once studied at the Goethe University Frankfurt School of Medicine in Germany. He is currently serving as the director of the Minimally Invasive Hepato-bilio-pancreatic Surgery Center of West China Hospital, Sichuan University and is member of the Laparoscopy and Endoscopy Group of the Chinese Medical Association’s Surgery Branch, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), member of the International Association of Surgeons, Gastroenterologist and Oncologists (IASGO), member of the China Chapter of Minimally Invasive Surgery of IASGO, member of the Committee of the Specialty of Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Surgical Branch of Chinese Medical Doctor Association (CMDA), deputy director of the Minimally Invasive Diagnosis and Treatment Group of the Pancreatic Cancer Committee of the Chinese Anti-cancer Association, deputy director of the Minimally Invasive Diagnosis and Treatment Group on Pancreatic Diseases of the Pancreatic Diseases Branch of the China International Exchange and Promotion Association for Medical and Healthcare, deputy director of the Committee on Abdominal Tumors of the China Medical Education Association, member of the Standing Committee of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery of the China Medical Education Association, member of the Committee of the Endoscopic Doctors Branch of CMDA, member of the Expert Group on Pancreatic Cancer for Cancer Prevention of the Health Exchange and Cooperation across the Taiwan Straits, and member of the Robot and Laparoscopic Surgery Society of the China Research Hospital Association, as well as an editorial board member or reviewer of World Journal of Hepatology, World Journal of Gastroenterology, Chinese Journal of Laparoscopic Surgery, Chinese Journal of Bases and Clinics in General Surgery, Journal of Laparoscopic Surgery and Journal of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery.

Professor Bing Peng is among the first doctors in China to perform the difficult LPD and has become a pioneer and advocate in the formation of the second wave of LPD in China. In January 2014, he succeeded in performing LPD on an 89-year-old patient with pancreatic head cancer, the world’s oldest, who manifested no postoperative complications and no tumor survival and experienced a high quality of life after two years of follow-up. He also performed China’s first LPD combined with the resection and reconstruction of the superior mesenteric vein/portal vein (SMV/PV) with prosthetic vessel replacement, as well as the world’s first LPD combined with vessel resection and reconstruction using the expanded round hepatic ligament as an autologous vessel. He has frequently attended large-scale international and domestic academic conferences and given presentations.

Research achievements: He has won the certificate of surgery broadcasting of “One hundred surgeons, one hundred surgeries” during the 2015 China Surgery Week and two third-place prizes at the Science and Technology Progress Awards of Sichuan Province (of one as the PI) and has hosted or participated in six national and provincial research projects. He has published more than 50 papers in academic journals at home and abroad as the first author or a corresponding author, of which many have been cited in SCI and Medline.

Monographs: As editor and author, Professor Bing Peng has contributed to many book chapters, e.g., Surgery, Higher Education Press, 2009, Beijing; “Guidelines to abdominal surgeries and their perioperative management”, Science Press, 2010, Beijing; and Laparoscopic Pancreatic Surgery (Editor-in-Chief), People’s Medical Publishing House, 2017, Beijing.

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Terms of Appointment: June 2018 - May 2020