Professor Haibo Wang
MBBS(SUMS), MSc (UMBC), MPH (Harvard)
Professor Haibo Wang is the Founding Director of the Big Data Centre for the National Health Commission on Human Tissue, Organ Transplantation and Medicine, and a member of the World Health Organization Expert Advisory Panel/Committee on Donation and Transplantation of Human Cells, Tissues and Organs.
He is widely recognized as the founder and principal architect of China’s official national organ allocation system, the China Organ Transplant Response System (COTRS). His work in developing a transparent, fair and equitable national allocation framework has played a pivotal role in China’s organ transplantation reform.
Professor Wang’s research focuses on the intersection of data science, artificial intelligence and medicine. He serves as Director of the Department of Medical AI Education and Research at Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University; Director of the Research Centre of Big Data and AI for Medicine at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University; Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University; and Executive Editor-in-Chief of Health Care Science.
He has authored more than 120 academic publications in leading journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, BMJ, NEJM AI and The Lancet Digital Health.
