Dr. FAN Zhuping, MD, PhD, postgraduate research supervisor and associate professor of the Department of Gastroenterology at Renji Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. She previously served as the Director of the Health Care Center.

Dr. FAN specializes in gastrointestinal and chronic liver diseases, especially viral hepatitis and non-viral liver diseases such as fatty liver disease, autoimmune liver disease, and drug-induced liver disease. Her expertise also encompasses liver fibrosis, cirrhosis, and their complications.

As one of the main contributors, Dr. FAN completed the Shanghai municipal study “Clinical Research on the Anti-Gastrointestinal Tumor Effects of Parvovirus,” which was awarded the Second Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award. She also completed research on “The Pathogenesis and Prevention of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease” and “The Effects of Lipids on the Biological Activity of Hepatic Stellate Cells,” both of which received the Third Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award. Additionally, her research on “The Effects of Lipids on the Formation of Fatty Liver and Liver Fibrosis” was awarded the Second Prize by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. In recent years, she has published 8 SCI papers as the corresponding author. And serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the International Journal of Digestive Diseases, Liver (Chinese edition), Journal of Digestive Diseases, World Clinical Drugs, and Chinese Journal of Health Management.

Dr. FAN holds prominent roles in academic and professional societies, including being a committee member of: 1) the Health Management Society of the Chinese Medical Association, 2) the Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, 3) the Chronic Disease Management Branch of the China Medicinal Biotechnology Association; 4) the Health Promotion Professional Committee of the China Health Technology Promotion Association; 5) the Fatty Liver Group within the Hepatology Branch of the Shanghai Medical Association, and 6) the Infectious Diseases Branch of the Shanghai Medical Doctor Association. She is also the Vice Chair of the Endoscopy Health Management and Physical Examination Committee under the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, the Deputy Director of the Shanghai Fatty Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center, and Director of the Evidence-Based Medicine Teaching and Research Office at Renji Hospital Clinical Medical College.