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Zhenguo Zhai, Physician

National Center for Respiratory Medicine, Institute of Respiratory Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center of Respiratory Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing, China
Beijing, Beijing, China (People's Republic)

Dr.Zhenguo Zhai, board certified in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine, now works in Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, National Clinical Research Center of Respiratory Diseases, Beijing, China.

At present he serves as Associate Professor and Chief Physician in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, China-Japan Friendship Hospital. Dr Zhai serves as the Secretary and Vise-director of Assembly of Pulmonary Embolism and Pulmonary Vascular Diseases in Chinese Thoracic Society.He also serves as a deputy assembly head of Asia Pacific Society of Respirology(APSR) pulmonary circulation assembly,a head of China of International INVENT-VTE Network, a fellow of Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI) and a member of American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). He is an author of numerous articles, textbook chapters and a contributor to teaching of acute venous thromboembolic disease and pulmonary hypertension.

As a core member, Zhai has actively participated several clinical and translational studies and organized the Coopetative Network System for pulmonary vascular diseases. The epidemiological data of pulmonary embolism in China and the baseline data of VTE prevention were obtained.The research team showed that low dose rt-PA regimen for acute PE patients with unstable hemodynamic state and/or massive pulmonary artery obstruction, can reduce risk of bleeding but maintain similar efficacy in these patients and this regimen has also been approved by European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines. His team is also committed to the National Programme for Prevention and Management of Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Venous Thrombosis. He is clinically active as a teaching physician staffing fellows, residents, and medical students in Peking Union Medical College, Capital Medical University and Peking University.

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