Dr. Guo-Wei HE, MD, PhD ((Monash), DSc (Monash) is Vice President and Chief of Department of Cardiovascular Surgery and as well as Director, Center for Basic Medical Research, TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital (from October, 2007-), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, China. He currently also holds Clinical Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, U.S.A. and Chair Professor, Zhejiang University as well as Hangzhou Normal University, China. Previously, Professor He was Chair Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Hong Kong & Honorary Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, The Grantham Hospital, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong and then Research Professor of Surgery & Director, Cardiovascular Surgical Research Laboratory, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and Professor of Surgery at Nankai University. He was also Director, Cardiovascular Research, Starr Academic Center, Providence Heart Institute, Portland OR, U.S.A. He is a member of editorial board for more than 10 international journals including The Annals of Thoracic Surgery (U.S.A.), World Journal of Surgery (U.S.A.) , and The Heart Surgery Forum (U.S.A.). He is Editor-in-Chief of The Open Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Journal, (by Bentham Science Publishers, ISSN:1876-5335 http://www.bentham.org/index.htm ), Deputy Editor-in-Chief，Chinese Cardiovascular Research. Beijing, exec. He has had 322 SCI publications (full papers and abstracts) indexed by Science Citation Index, U.S.A. and more than 200 full papers including editorials indexed by "Pub Med" with multiple papers in "Circulation (IF：15.202). The IF (of the journal) of his papers published is > 15.202 of 4 papers; IF > 6.0 of 10 papers; IF > 5.0 of 21 papers; IF > 3.0 of 120 papers; and IF > 2.0 of more than 166 papers. The h-Index of He's publications is 34. In the majority of those papers, he is the corresponding or first author. The total SCI citations are 4,087 up to August, 2016. Professor He has contributed in a number of books. In addition, as the sole editor, He has published a book entitled: Arterial Grafts for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery (Springer-Verlarg); this book has been published in two editions now with an additional edition in Chinese.

Vascular biology; Pharmacology of human blood vessels; Genetic studies in cardiovascular diseases; Multi-omics studies in human cardiovascular diseases.