Ming Chu, MD
Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China; The Affiliated Taizhou People's Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Taizhou School of Clinical Medicine, Nanjing Medical University
Research interests: echocardiography, heart failure, radiofrequency ablation for arrhythmia and management of atrial fibrillation
Dr. Chu served as a visiting scholar atWilf Cardiovascular Research Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2013. He received his doctorate in cardiology from the Nanjing Medical University in 2018. He is the master instructor of cardiology in Nanjing Medical University.
Dr. Chu currently works as the chief physician of the cardiology department in the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University. He is also the Director of Taizhou Key Laboratory for Intelligent Prevention and Control of Major Chronic Diseases.
Dr. Chu hosted 10 research projects, including1 National Major Science and Technology Project for the Four Major Chronic Diseases and 2 National Natural Science Foundations. He has published over 20 scientific papers in prestigious journals (Nature Medicine, Advanced Science, etc.), 3 invited book chapters, and 5 patents. He has written a book entitled Atrial fibrillation and Stroke.
Dr. Chu has proposed and implemented a digital integrated chronic disease management model, successively establishing provincial and municipal standards for intelligent village clinics in China. The related achievements have been widely reported by national media outlets such as Xinhua News Agency and People's Daily, with interim findings published in Nature Medicine.
His main areas of research include speckle tracing echocardiography, heart failure，radiofrequency ablation for arrhythmia and management of atrial fibrillation in rural areas.
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