Beijing United Family Hospital Lung Cancer Center Announced; Professor Zhi Xiu Yi to Serve as Director

April 17, 2014 – Beijing United Family Hospital and Clinics (BJU) and renowned lung cancer expert, Professor Zhi Xiuyi, held a press conference to jointly announce the establishment of the Beijing United Family Hospital Lung Cancer Center, with Professor Zhi as its director. The new center will be based at BJU, with Professor Zhi now on call at the hospital every Thursday afternoon.

“United Family Healthcare has excellent medical resources,” said Professor Zhi. “In this endeavor, our cooperation will utilize the advantages of both sides to their fullest potential. For example, the United Family New Hope Oncology Center uses the best radiotherapy technology in the country; for surgeries, its hybrid operating rooms offer the cleanest facilities and best hardware available. With this cooperation, we will be able to provide a more comprehensive model for our patients, with personalized consultation, diagnosis and treatment service. Consultations between patients and doctors will be at least half an hour. This cooperation will provide lung cancer patients with more medical treatment options than ever before.”

With regards to this new joint effort between BJU and Professor Zhi, Sylvia Pan, Beijing United Family Hospital General Manager, has high expectations. “United Family advocates an integrated, multidisciplinary treatment model based on people-oriented principles. The United Family New Hope Oncology Center advocates an outpatient-style treatment. Patients don’t need to leave society to complete radiotherapy and chemotherapy. For the treatment of cancer patients, this will lead to better results that are less invasive than traditional models. In joining our team, Professor Zhi won’t just play a huge role in the growth and development of UFH, but will greatly benefit the majority of patients with lung cancer.”

Dr. Zhi Xiuyi

Consultation location: United Family Financial Street Clinic

Consultation time: Thursday afternoons

Dr. Zhi Xiuyi graduated from Capital University in 1983. He then worked for the Beijing Tuberculosis and Thoracic Tumor Hospital, where he engaged in the clinical diagnosis of lung cancer, its clinical stage, as well as its surgical and multidisciplinary treatment. After returning abroad from studying at the University of Miami Cancer Center study, he studied at Capital Medical University. Later working at the Capital Medical University affiliate, Xuanwu Hospital, he became the Director of Thoracic Surgery. During this time he created the Lung Cancer Treatment Center, spread across all of Capital Medical University’s affiliated hospitals, and served as director.

For over 30 years, Dr. Zhi has specialized in thoracic surgery, completing more than 6,000 lung cancer surgeries from patients admitted from across China and around the world. He’s played an important role in uniting academic leaders in the study and treatment of thoracic surgery and lung cancer, and has played an important role in promoting academic exchanges and cooperation across China. Over the past ten years, Dr. Zhi had the pleasure of presenting at a variety of conferences in China and abroad and has published more than 60 medical papers.

Dr. Luo Zhaoliu

Consultation location: Beijing United Family Hospital

Consultation time: Wednesday mornings and afternoons

Dr. Luo is from China. He completed his medical degree at Sun Yat-Sen University Medical College in Guangzhou (China). He then completed his medical master’s degree in Cardiovascular Surgery at the Guangdong Provincial Cardiovascular Institute. He was also a cardiothoracic surgical fellow at the Alfred Group of Hospitals and at the Heart & Heart/Lung Replacement Services at Monash University (Australia).

Dr. Luo started his career in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University. He then spent 15 years at the Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital in the abdominal, genitourinary, cerebral, traumatic and thoracic-cardiovascular surgery departments. After his time at Monash University, Dr. Luo worked at Kiang Wu Hospital in Macau as a cardiothoracic surgeon and as director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit. He returned to Guangdong province to spend another 15 years at the First Guangzhou Municipal Hospital as a cardiothoracic surgeon, associate professor and director of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit.

Our thoracic surgery team can provide care and treatment of following diseases:

• Spontaneous pneumothorax
• Funnel chest
• Rib fracture with hemopncumothorax
• Chronic constrictive pericarditis
• Chronic or acute cardiac tamponade
• Achalasia
• Bronchiectasis
• Benign tumors of the lung
• Tracheal malignant tumor
• Bronchogenic carcinoma
• Hiatus hernia
• Esophageal leiomyoma
• Esophageal carcinoma
• Benign or malignant thymoma
• Benign tumor of mediastium
• Malignant teratoma of mediastium