He is the director ofthe Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, chief physician, Class II professor, Doctor of Medicine, he received a postdoctoral degree in the United States and he is also a postgraduate’s tutor.

Dr. Zhang is the expert of the special allowance of the Hebei Provincial Government, a member of the Standing Committee of the Thoracic Surgeon Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a member of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a member of the Standing Committee of the Thoracic Surgery Branch of the China Association for the Promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine and a member of the Thoracic Surgery Committee of the Chinese Research Hospital, a member of Hebei Anticancer Association, a member of Hebei Clinical Oncology Society; He is the standing committee of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Branch of Hebei Medical Association; He is the deputy director of esophageal cancer group of Oncology Branch of Hebei Medical Association, Standing Committee of Lung Cancer Special Committee, the deputy committee of the Lung Cancer Prevention and Control Committee, the standing committee of the Lung Cancer Special Committee of the Hebei Anti-Cancer Association, the standing committee of the Esophageal Cancer Committee of the Hebei Anti-Cancer Association; He is the deputy chairman of the Micro-invasive Special Committee of the Thoracic Surgery of the Shijiazhuang Medical Association, member of the International Society of Esophagus Diseases (ISDE). He won 2 second prizes of Hebei Science and Technology Progress Award and 1 first prize of Science and Technology Award of China Anti-Cancer Association. He is editor of journals such as Chinese Journal of Lung Cancer and Esophageal Surgery and reviewer of journals such as Chinese Journal of Cancer Prevention and Diseases of the Esophagus.

He graduated from Hebei Medical University in 1989 and worked in the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University from 1989 to 2008. In 1997, he was elected by the Health Department as the “Young and Middle-aged specialists of Provincial Key Disciplines” to go to Shanghai Thoracic Hospital, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital for training. He did his postdoctoral research at the Cancer Center of the University of Maryland School of Medicine from 2006-2008. Since 2008, he has worked in the Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University.

He has engaged in thoracic surgery for more than 20 years, with solid theory, comprehensive skills and a wealth of clinical experience, he can complete the routine thoracic surgery and he is good at thoracoscopic minimally invasive thoracic surgery. Such aslobectomy, pneumonectomy, pericardial pneumonectomy, radical cardia cancer, radical arching and sublingual anastomosis of middle and lower esophageal cancer, thoracic upper esophageal cancer with neck anastomosis (three incisions), right Thoracic and abdominal incision radical surgery for esophageal cancer (Ivor-Lewis) and mediastinal tumor removal surgery. He can complete more difficult operations, such as tracheal and bronchoplasty, sleeve resection, radical resection of lung cancer and partial left atrial resection, radical resection of esophageal cancer and partial aortic wall resection, esophageal ptosis Colonic esophagectomy, esophageal stricture and retroperitoneal colonic bypass, giant mediastinal tumor removal, single-operated laparoscopic surgery, single-hole thoracoscopic surgery and other difficult operations. Among them, radical resection of lung cancer and partial left atrial resection, radical resection of esophageal cancer and partial aortic wall resection, single-hole thoracoscopic mediastinal tumor resection, unilateral thoracic surgery and xiphoid thoracic thymectomy for the treatment of myasthenia gravis are the leading technologies in Hebei Province.

He was awarded the second prize of Hebei Science and Technology Progress Award (2013, 2000), the third prize of China Anti-cancer Association Science and Technology Award (2012) and the first and second prizes of Hebei Medical Science and Technology Award.He edited “Bronchial Lung Cancer”, "Diagnosis and Treatment Technology for Esophageal Malignancies", "National Esophageal Cancer and Cardiac Carcinoma" and books from national publishing houses. He has published more than 70 research papers, including SCI papers, Chinese Medical Association series and other Chinese core journal articles. He has repeatedly spoken at the Academic Conference of China Cancer Academic Conference, National Clinical Oncology Conference (CSCO), National Cancer Young and Middle-aged Academic Conference, China Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Conference, China Esophageal Cancer Academic Conference and won the Outstanding Paper Award (Certificate).

Areas of expertise

He specializes in thoracoscopic techniques, small incision chest and other minimally invasive surgery for thoracic surgery for the treatment of various diseases of the thoracic surgery, accurate treatment of lung cancer.