Zhengyuan Xia
Keynote: J Diabetes Metab
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) remains the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in diabetic patients.
Zhengyuan Xia had served as a Cardiovascular Anesthetist for more than 10 years in China before he completed his Ph.D. study at the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Canada in 2004 and postdoctoral studies at UBC and University of Calgary in 2007. He is Assistant Professor and Honorary Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Anesthesiology Research Laboratory of the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Hong Kong. His major focus of research is cardiac protection during ischemia-reperfusion in diabetes. He has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals and is serving as an Executive Editor of Journal of Diabetes & Metabolism.
