Xueqing Yu (China)

Past President of the ISPD

Prof. Yu Xueqing currently serves as the president of Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences. Changjiang Scholarship professor of Ministry of Education. He holds academic positions including president of International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, Executive member of Asian-Pacific Society of Nephrology and Chair of CME committee, Editor board member of Kidney Int and Am J of Kidney Diseases and subject editor of Nephrology.

He undertakes 46 scientific research funds. He has published 443 scientific papers, among which 181 were indexed by SCI, including Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Cell Metabolism, Science Translational Medicine, etc. He established a Peritoneal Dialysis Center with world leading patient survival and technical survival rates, The prestigious academic journal Lancet describes him as “a driving force in Chinese nephrology”.