Dr. Gu Xudong

Title: Associate Chief Physician

Department: Department of Thoracic Surgery

Language: chinese

Clinical Working Years: 40 years of clinical experience

Expertise: Specializes in complex and difficult minimally invasive thoracic surgeries, including: lung surgery (small nodules, lung tumors, bullae, pneumothorax); Mediastinal tumor surgery; Esophageal surgery (tumor, leiomyoma).

Experience:

In 1982, he graduated from the Medical Department of Shanghai Second Medical University (now Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine).

He studied cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Helsinki Medical School for 1 year.

From 1982 to 2018, he worked in the Department of Thoracic Surgery of RENJI HOSPITAL Affiliated to the School of Medicine of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and taught the undergraduate courses of the School of Medicine of Shanghai Jiao Tong University for 16 consecutive years. During his work in RENJI HOSPITAL, he initiated and presided over the thoracoscopic surgical program in RENJI HOSPITAL in 1996, completing the first endoscopic bullotomy, mediastinal tumor resection, pulmonary nodule resection, thoracic cross-trunk nerve dissection, and single-port subxiphoid mediastinal tumor resection; In 1999, he initiated and presided over the cardiothoracic surgery department of the East Hospital of RENJI HOSPITAL. In 2004, he completed the hospital's first endovascular stenting of thoracic aortic dissection and radical sugery for hypopharyngeal cancer.

From 2013 to 2018, he initiated and presided over the thoracic surgery Department of RENJI SOUTH HOSPITAL, carrying out total endoscopic surgery for esophageal cancer.

Now engaged in clinical practice, scientific research, and management at Shanghai Yida Hospital Thoracic Surgery Department.