Niu Lizhi (born 1966) is a Chinese
surgeon
In modern medicine, a surgeon is a medical professional who performs surgery. Although there are different traditions in different times and places, a modern surgeon usually is also a licensed physician or received the same medical training as ...
who specializes in minimally invasive
cryosurgery for
cancers. In 1996, he graduated from
the Fourth Military Medical University with a doctoral degree in Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery.
Lizhi is the president of
Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital and vice president of the International Society of Cryosurgery. He is the supervisor of the master's degree course in
Jinan University
Jinan University (JNU, ) is a public research university based in Guangzhou, China. "Jinan" literally means "reaching southward", indicating the university's original mission to disseminate Chinese learning and culture from North to South when i ...
. He focuses on the treatment of pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, renal cancer, thyroid cancer, peritoneal cancer and other solid tumors. Niu Lizhi and his team have performed nearly ten thousand cases of cryosurgery.
Lizhi's patients aged from four-year-old child to 94-year-old senior, ranking from Minister, celebrities, to ordinary people and patients with rare diseases like
Huang Chuncai
Huang Chuncai () (born 29 December 1977) is a Chinese man who became notable for being "China's Elephant man". He has an extreme case of neurofibromatosis, which caused such large tumors on his face that they had completely distorted his features. ...
, or Gurli.
Social position
Vice President, International Society of Cryosurgery, (ISC)
Vice President, Asian Society of Cryosurgery
Books (edited and written)
* Cryosurgery for Cancer. Shanghai science and technology education publishing, Shanghai 2007. (in Chinese)
* Modern Cryosurgery for Cancer, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore 2012
* New Technique of Cancer Ablation Irreversible Electroporation, Shanghai Science and Technology Lecture Publishing, Shanghai, 2014 (in Chinese)
References
External links
* http://www.fudacancerhospital.org/famousdoctor/201507016.html
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1966 births
Living people
Chinese surgeons
20th-century Chinese physicians
21st-century Chinese physicians
Academic staff of Jinan University
20th-century surgeons