Wanchun Tang

Wanchun Tang, MD, Graduated from Shanghai Second Medical University in 1977. After completing his clinical training in surgery and cardiac surgery, he served as an Attending Surgeon and Assistant Professor of the Department of Cardiac Surgery of the same University. He has been particularly interested in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiac care research since he was a medical student. To pursue his career in this field, he joined the critical care medicine fellowship program of The Chicage Medical School as a research fellow in 1988 under the mentorship of Dr. Max Harry Weil. In 1996, he relocated to Rancho Mirage, CA with the Weil Institute and served as Professor and Vice President of Medical Research. He was Professor at the Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine and USC/Keck School of Medicine. Dr. Tang served as the President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine in California since January 2006 until March, 2016 when he became the Director of the Weil Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Tang’s researches involve post resuscitation myocardial dysfunction and microcirsulation during circulatory failure. He has authored more than 160 peer reviewed articles and 14 US patents and has received numerous national and international awards for his work.