Dr. Yonghong Yang

Professor of Pediatrics

Beijing Children’s Hospital in Affiliation with the Capital Medical University

Since 1982, Dr. Yonghong Yang has worked as an attending pediatrician, an associate professor and a professor in the Beijing Children’s Hospital, which is affiliated with the Capital Medical University and Beijing Pediatric Institute. From 1994 to 2005, he served as deputy director of the Hospital and the Institute.

Dr. Yang was trained at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) 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 (the former CDC of 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/B/G streptococcus, MRSA, Pertussis, Chlamydophila Pneumonia and rational use of antibiotics.

Dr. Yang continues to serve on numerous national and international committees on pediatric infectious diseases and pediatric pulmonology. He served as president of the Chinese Subsociety of Pediatric Pulmolonogy for 15 years. He is currently a member of EPI Committee of MOH of China, the Consultant of the Chinese Subsociety of Pediatric Pulmolonogy and a Standing Committee member of ASPID.

Dr. Yang has been the recipient of several national and international awards, including 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. Dr. Yang has published more than 400 papers, reviews and book chapters, 91 of which were published in peer-reviewed English journals.