Dr. Zhu is Chief Physician and Deputy Director of Thoracic Surgery at the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University (Jiangsu Province Hospital). He has been working as a physician, professor and researcher of cardiothoracic surgery for 27 years. He specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as lung diseases, oesophageal diseases, mediastinal diseases, chest wall diseases, and palmar hyperhidrosis, and is an expert on minimally invasive thoracic surgery represented by thoracoscopy. He holds four national patents and has won the first prize of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Health New Technology Introduction Award twice and the second prize twice. In 2015 and 2016, he consecutively won the national first prize in the National Surgical Technique Competition for Outstanding Young Thoracic Surgeons held by Thoracic Surgeons Branch of Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and first place in the lung reconstruction group. In 2017, he won the best surgical video award of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS).
