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Niu Lizhi (born 1966) is a surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive cryosurgery for cancers. In 1996, he graduated from the Fourth Military Medical University with a doctoral degree in Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery.
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Lizhi is the president of Guangzhou Fuda Cancer Hospital and vice president of International Society of Cryosurgery. He is supervisor of master's degree course in Jinan University. He focuses on the treatment of pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, lung cancer, renal cancer, thyroid cancer, peritoneal cancer and other solid tumors. Niu Lizhi and his team have performed nearly ten thousand cases of cryosurgery.
Lizhi, together with his team, has provided cryosurgery training and guidance to more than fifty doctors from Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea, China’s Taiwan and the Southern Medical University, Xiangya Medical University and other hospitals in China.
Lizhi’s patients aged from four year old child to 94 years old senior, ranking from Minister, celebrities, to ordinary people and patients with rare diseases like Huang Chuncai, or Gurli.
Education
Degree-granting education
Faculty of Aviation Medicine, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, China, MD., 1989
Postgraduate training
Clinical Resident, Chief Resident, Faculty of Thoracic Surgery, Fourth Military Medical University, 9/1989-7/1996
Ph.D., Faculty of Thoracic Surgery, Fourth Military Medical University, 9/1991-7/1996
Social position
Vice President, International Society of Cryosurgery, (ISC)
Vice President, Asian Society of Cryosurgery
Faculty Member, Cryosurgery Course of The International Society of Cryosurgery.
Executive member, Argon-Helium Targeted Cryoablation Committee of China Biological Medical Association
Executive member, Ultrasonic Intervention and Tumor Ablation Committee of Chinese Medical Doctor Association
Executive member, Medical Experts Committee of Chinese Retired Professor Association
Executive member, Radioactive Seed Implantation Committee of China Anticancer Association
Faculty Member, Minimally Invasive Committee of China Anticancer Association
Faculty Member, Chinese Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
Vice Director, Guangdong Cooperation Committee affiliated to Argon-Helium Targeted Cryoablation Committee of China Biological Medical Association
Executive member, Oncological Professional Committee of Guangdong Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
Executive member, Digestive Professional Committee of Guangdong Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
Faculty Member, Oncologist sub-commission of Guangdong physicians Society
Honors and awards
Second prize of great sci-tech achievements in aviation logistics by project of “Basic research on Chest trauma”,2005
Award of “Brilliant contribution to World Conference on Interventional Oncology” , the 14th World Congress of Cryosurgery in Beijing, 2007
Excellent Paper Award, the 4th China South-North lung cancer peak forum by paper of “Treatment of unresectable pancreatic carcinoma with percutaneous implantation of 125lodine seeds”, 2008
Excellent Paper Award, At the Ninth National Symposium on Interventional Diagnosis and Treatment 2009 by paper of “Combination of cryosurgery with 125iodine seed implantation for locally advanced pancreatic carcinoma”, 2009
Presidential Award, At the 36th Japan Annual Meeting of Low Temperature Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, 2009
Outstanding Contributioner to Chinese Cryosurgery, World Cancer Congress 2010, Shenzhen, China, 2010
Third prize of excellent papers, by “Feasibility and Safety of Percutaneous Cryoablation for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer”, Guangzhou Anticancer Society,2010