Yu Jianchun

Research areas: General surgery, gastrointestinal surgery and nutrition and metabolism; clinical and basic research related to parenteral and enteral nutrition, including tumor and nutritional immunology, parenteral and enteral nutrition and gastrointestinal motility research, nutritional screening and standardization for elderly patients, weight loss and surgical treatment of diabetes and related hormone metabolism mechanisms, etc.

Cutting-edge technologies: Among the first in China to perform radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer, specializing in laparoscopic radical gastrectomy, laparoscopic gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy, fundoplication, hiatal hernia repair, and laparoscopic/endoscopic partial gastrectomy preserving the cardia/pylorus for gastric stromal tumors and early-stage gastric cancer. Also specializing in parenteral and enteral nutritional support and surgical treatment of intestinal fistulas. Conducting enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) studies, prospective cohort studies have demonstrated that intensive perioperative nutritional intervention can accelerate postoperative recovery in gastrointestinal surgery.

Areas of expertise: assessment of gastric cancer, neoadjuvant chemotherapy and nutritional support therapy, standardized radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer, parenteral and enteral nutritional support therapy and surgical treatment of intestinal fistula, surgical treatment of gastric stromal tumors, early gastric cancer, obesity and diabetes.

Academic Highlights and Core Values: Deputy Director of General Surgery, Chief Physician, Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor. Chairman of the Chinese Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Deputy Head of the Surgical Nutrition Support Group of the Chinese Medical Association, and Chairman of the Clinical Nutrition Expert Committee of the Beijing Medical Association. He holds a leading position nationwide in the interdisciplinary field of gastrointestinal surgery and nutritional metabolism.