陈义汉

Chen Yihan, born in 1964 in Sheyang, Jiangsu, is a Chinese cardiologist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a professor, chief physician and doctoral supervisor at Tongji University, and formerly served as vice president of Tongji University. He has long been engaged in research on arrhythmia and heart failure. In 2003, he became the first internationally to identify a causative gene for human atrial fibrillation, with the results published in the journal Science, and he has received a second prize of the National Natural Science Award. Beyond research, he emphasizes the systematic organization and dissemination of clinical knowledge and is chief editor of the Cardiology Practice series, of which seven volumes are held in the library, covering cardiovascular disease prevention, hypertension, metabolic diseases, coronary heart disease, arrhythmia, cardiomyopathy and heart failure, and valvular and pulmonary vascular disease. Oriented toward clinical practice, the volumes are practical in arrangement and offer cardiovascular physicians a fairly comprehensive reference.