Prof. Xudong Zhao
Tongji University, China
Xudong Zhao, DrMed, is Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Tongji University in Shanghai, Director of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at Shanghai East Hospital, and Director of the Institute of Philosophical Psychology, School of Humanities at Tongji University. He is also a Guest-Professor at Ritsumeikan University in Japan and at the Mental Health Institute of Beijing University. Dr. Zhao received his bachelor and master degrees of medicine from Kunming Medical College and West China University of Medicine and his Dr.Med. degree from Heidelberg University in Germany. He has worked in the fields of neurology, psychiatry and psychotherapy since 1983, with an academic and research focus on cross-cultural psychiatry, psychotherapy, family therapy and psychosomatic medicine. Dr. Zhao has made significant contributions to the development of psychotherapy and clinical psychosomatic medicine in China. He and his colleagues were responsible for the opening of China’s first open psychiatric ward in the 1980s and first psychotherapy center in the 1990s. He was a key player in the promotion of the People’s Republic of China’s first Mental Health Law. Since 1997, he has served as a leader in the “Chinese-German Advanced Continuous Training Program for Psychotherapy,” recognized with the International Sigmund Freud Award for Psychotherapy 2008 in Vienna for its crucial role in introducing Western psychotherapy into China.
Prof. Ronald Cornet
Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands
Ronald Cornet holds a position as full professor in Medical Informatics, principal investigator and principal educator at the department of Medical Informatics in the Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Amsterdam UMC. He leads a research group on "reusable health data", in which research focuses on semantic interoperability, both from a technical perspective and from a users' point of view, as a key component to establishing FAIR data for healthcare and research. His research has resulted in over 100 journal publications and over 80 peer-reviewed conference proceedings. See the list of publications for a complete bibliography. Ronald has supervised 10 completed PhD-projects. Ronald is involved in health care information standardization, among others as member of the Dutch, European (CEN) and global (ISO) standardization committees on health informatics. He is also involved in SNOMED International, which is responsible for maintenance and further development of SNOMED CT. He chairs the IMIA working group on Language and Meaning in Biomedicine, and participates in various international projects: European Joint Programme Rare Diseases (EJP-RD), CAPABLE, LEAPfROG, PaLaDIn, and C4C. Ronald holds a Basic Teaching Qualification and is involved in both organization of education and in teaching at the University of Amsterdam. This teaching involves information modeling, knowledge representation and semantic interoperability in health care. He has supervised research work of over 50 students (at BSc and MSc level). He is a four-time awardee of the best-teacher price in the Medical Informatics curriculum at the University of Amsterdam.
Prof. Mei Sun
Xiangya School of Nursing at Central South University, China
Dr. Mei Sun is a Professor of Xiangya School of Nursing at Central South University, Associate Director of the International Cooperation and Exchange Center, Xiangya School of Nursing, CSU. Her research areas are focused on nursing ethics, population- based community mental health care. Dr. Sun has published more than 50 peer reviewed academic papers and 4 academic books. She has lead 12 research projects, and she works as a reviewer for Journal of Chinese Public Health Nursing. She is a member of Hunan Evidence-based Nursing Committee, Hunan Hospice Care Committee and Hunan Psychology Committee. In recent years, she has been awarded the Yale Bioethics Project, two international cooperation projects and the Global Silk Road Scholars Program, etc. She has close research collaborations with UCSF, Yale University, and Monash university.
