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Xudong Xiang was born in 1961 in Longshan County, Hunan Province, and he is a member of the CCP. He graduated from Jishou University, and got his doctor degree from Xiangya School of Medicine in 1997. He began to work as the vice director of the Respirology Department of Second Xiangya Hospital of CSU since 2001, and promoted to professor in 2003. In 2006, he visited the Immunology Institute of Rosenberg University in Germany for a year, and in 2007 he gained his doctoral mentor certificate. He began to work as the director of the Emergency Department of Second Xiangya Hospital of CSU since 2010.
When he worked in the Respirology Department, he was the first in Hunan province to endeavor pulmonary interventional techniques including brochoscopy and thoracoscopy; he also built the first RICU in Hunan, and promoted sequential ventilation and low-tidal volume ventilation therapy in the treatment of COPD/respiratory failure, the achievements were adopted in the Chinese Expert Consensus of Non-invasive Ventilation Therapy; he advocated the “aggressive sequential therapy” for the treatment of drug-resistant A. baumanii and achieved better therapeutic effects; and he managed to diagnosed various difficult, rare cases: first report of areca provoked asthma attack, the first case of diffuse pan-bronchiolitis in southern China, etc. During the outbreak of SARS in 2003, he worked as the consulting expert of Hunan province, visiting and inspecting communities, and was awarded second class merit citation.
He was transferred to be the Director of the Emergency Department in 2010. He built the emergency ward, difficult and complicated disease ward and emergency intensive care unit, enhanced the ability of emergency to treat severely-ill patients. He concluded the “three circle diagnostic algorithm”, and applying this algorithm, he successfully diagnosed several difficult and complicated acute thallium poisoning, Langerhans histocytosis and progressive disseminated histoplasmosis, etc, and he organized the “difficult and complicated disease saloon” of Hunan.
Academically, he devoted himself to explore the immunological pathophysiology of asthma, and had earned several grant support, and had published a number of peer-reviewed original articles.
He was elected as “Excellent Doctor of Xiangya” in 2014.