Professor Gang Hou, Chief Physician, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China, graduated from China Medical University, Shenyang, China, with an MD and a Master’s degree in Medicine. He is the Vice Director of the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and serves as doctoral supervisor at Peking Union Medical College and Capital Medical University.
Expertise
- COPD: Among the first in China to perform bronchoscopic lung volume reduction (BLVR) for severe COPD; guideline contributor.
- Lung cancer:Interventional pulmonology—EBUS-TBNA, rEBUS-GS biopsy, electromagnetic and augmented-reality navigation bronchoscopy, percutaneous lung biopsy; electrocautery, laser, APC, cryotherapy, airway stenting, and percutaneous/transbronchial tumor ablation; leads a National Key R&D Program sub-project on EBUS development and validation.
- Pleural diseases: Expert in benign/malignant pleural effusion diagnosis and medical thoracoscopy; first in the world to report HybridKnife pleural biopsy and ultrasound elastography-guided pleural biopsy; leads nationwide multicenter trials.
- Benign airway stenosis: Specializes in post-intubation, post-lung-transplant, and tuberculous scar stenosis.