Dr Chunxue Bai

Dr Chunxue Bai

Associate Editor for China, East Asia and South East Asia: Chunxue Bai

Chunxue Bai is professor and chair of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University. He is also the founder and director of the Shanghai Respiratory Research Institute. Dr Bai serves as Chair for the Chinese Alliance against Lung Cancer, vice president of the Chinese Respiratory Association, and chair of the research committee for the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR). Dr Bai is the Chief Editor for Translational Respiratory Medicine. He also serves as an international editorial board member for AJRCCM, AJRCMB, Chest and is an associate editor for the Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics. He is the founder and chair of the International Symposium on Respiratory Diseases, which has become one of the largest and leading respiratory conferences in Asia and China.

Dr Bai’s main research interests include COPD, asthma, acute lung injury and lung cancer. His major contributions in COPD include early diagnosis using low-dose CT scan, monitoring and management using cell phone-based remote mobile system and biomarker research. He is the author of over 420 publications in prestigious nationally and internationally renowned peer-reviewed journals and has been invited to write more than 30 chapters in reference books and editorials in journals. Dr Bai has been invited to more than 40 international conferences (ATS, ERS, APSR) and academic institutions throughout the world to present the results of his research to esteemed participants.