Dr. Yonghong Yang

Professor of Pediatrics

Beijing Children's Hospital

Dr. Yonghong Yang has been working in Beijing Children's Hospital, as an attending pediatrician, Associate Professor and Professor since 1982. From 1994 to 2005, he served as Deputy Director of the hospital.

Dr. Yang was trained at the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. from 1985 to 1988. Twenty years ago, he led a World Health Organization (WHO) project on etiologic and epidemiologic studies of bacterial meningitis in China. In 1999, he became the Chief of the Beijing Research Center for Childhood Bacterial Diseases, an affiliate of the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine (former CDC in China).

Dr. Yang has coordinated international collaborations with scientists in the U.S., Sweden, Finland, France, Russia and Korea in the field of bacterial infections in childhood, especially Hib, Pneumococcus, Group A and B streptococcus, Pertussis, and Chlamydophila pneumonia.

Dr. Yang continues to serve on numerous national and international committees on pediatric infectious diseases and pediatric pulmonology. He is currently the President of the Chinese Society of Pediatric Pulmolonogy and a Standing Committee member of ASPID.

Dr. Yang has accepted several national and international awards which include the Aventis Pasteur Award from the International Society of Infectious Diseases in 2000. In 2005, he was elected as a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and has published more than 300 papers, reviews and book chapters. Of them, 66 papers were published in peer-reviewed English journals.