Huang Jiasi was a Chinese cardiothoracic surgeon and medicinal educator, known for being the founder of biomedical engineering in the People's Republic of China and the editor of the first modern surgery textbook in the Chinese language.
27 Facts About Huang Jiasi
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Huang Jiasi was the first Director-General of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering.
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Huang Jiasi was selected as the deputy to the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th National People's Congress.
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Huang Jiasi was enrolled at Nankai High School in 1921.
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Huang Jiasi passed the Pre-Medical Entrance Test of the Peking Union Medical College in 1924 and obtained his BS diploma from Yenching University in 1930.
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Since Japanese captured Shanghai, Huang Jiasi went Kunming along with the college.
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In 1940, Huang Jiasi got Tsinghua University's single place for the medical student studying in the US whose expense from the return of the Boxer Indemnities.
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Huang Jiasi joined the surgical residency program at the University of Michigan in October 1941, receiving his degree in 1943.
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Huang Jiasi shown his refused attitude towards the Reorganized National Government.
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Between 1945 and 1951, Huang Jiasi continued with his work as a professor of surgery.
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Huang Jiasi established the cardiothoracic surgery wards in Zhongshan Hospital and the General Hospital affiliated to the Red Cross Society of China.
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Huang Jiasi was elected president of the Chinese Surgical Association in 1947.
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In 1955, Huang Jiasi was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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In 1956, Huang Jiasi became the founding president of the Shanghai Chest Hospital.
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Huang Jiasi remained in that position for the next 25 years.
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On May 9,1979, Huang Jiasi was a lecturer at the American Medical Association's 75th Congress on Medical Education in Washington, DC.
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When Huang Jiasi was in the US, the collapse therapy for pulmonary tuberculosis interested him.
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Huang Jiasi plunged into treating the pulmonary tuberculosis patients when he went back Shanghai.
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Huang Jiasi focused on the patent ductus arteriosus and cardiopulmonary bypass in the 1960s.
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Huang Jiasi put a high premium on the rural medicine.
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Huang Jiasi led a circuit medical team at Xiangyin in 1964, then he edited a textbook for the barefoot doctors in the next year.
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Besides English and German, Huang Jiasi had a good grasp of Russian to learn from the Soviet Union.
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Huang Jiasi was elected as a foreign academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences in 1961.
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On June 22,1983, Huang Jiasi underwent surgical repair of his abdominal aortic aneurysm, which was complicated by postoperative myocardial infarction.
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Huang Jiasi rested for only 2 months before returning to work.
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When Huang Jiasi approached 18 years of age, his marriage was prearranged by his mother and grandfather.
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Huang Jiasi never met his bride, Xu Chundi until the wedding day in April 1926.