COVID-19: Meet Celebrity Chinese Doctor Zhang Online Today

Dr Zhang Wenhong, Professor and Head of the Center for Infectious Disease, Huashan Hospital of Fudan University in Shanghai, will share his experience and answer Bangladeshi doctors’ questions about the coronavirus pandemic today (Wednesday).

He will join through videoconferencing with the health officials and medical professionals in Bangladesh around 1pm.

As the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at Fudan University in Shanghai, Dr Zhang is the leader of Shanghai’s anti-COVID-19 clinical expert team.

He has extensive experience with the diagnosis and treatment of various emerging infectious diseases, according to the Chinese Embassy in Dhaka.

Dr Zhang is a graduate of Shanghai Medical University and has held visiting scholar and postdoctoral fellow positions at the Department of Microbiology at the University of Hong Kong, Harvard Medical School and Illinois State University at Chicago.

He has gained tens of millions of followers on social media and been dubbed “Dad Zhang” for his outspoken, down-to-earth talk about the disease.

The 51-year-old doctor first started getting attention at the end of January when he told media he assigned doctors who were Communist Party members to work at a hospital on the front line of the coronavirus outbreak in Shanghai.

Source: UNB