Background

Prof. Dr. Zhang, Hongqi was born in Luoyang City, Henan Province, and completed his primary to senior high school studies in Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province. From 1988.09 to 2003.07, he successfully completed undergraduate to doctoral studies at Peking University Health Science Center (PKUHSC), Beijing Hospital and Peking Union Medical College (PUMC), and obtained his M.D. and Ph.D. degree. From 1994.03 to 2002.01, Professor Zhang completed his clinical training, micro, and endovascular neurosurgery training, and entered the neurosurgery department of Xuanwu Hospital in 2003.07. In 2015.04 he started to be the chief of the Neurosurgery Department of Xuanwu Hospital. His team focus on diagnosis and treatment of intracranial aneurysms as well as cerebrospinal arteriovenous malformations, and he has won several national, provincial, and municipal awards. He is married and has a daughter.

Clinical Expertise

Vascular Neurosurgery, Interventional Neuroradiology

Research Interests

Hybrid surgery of brain and spinal cord arteriovenous malformation, genetic and pharmaceutic research of vascular malformations, artificial intelligence translation in evaluation and treatment of intracranial aneurysms.

Education

1988.09-1993.08 Bachelor of Medicine, Beijing Medical University.

1996.09-1999.08 Master of Neurosurgery, Institute of Gerontology, Ministry of Health

2000.09-2003.08 Ph.D., M.D., Neurosurgery, Peking Union Medical College

Residencies

1988.09-1993.08 Undergraduate study, Beijing Medical University

1994.09-1994.12 Anatomy study of central nerve system in Beijing Medical University

1996.09-1999.08 Post-graduate training of neurosurgery, Institute of Gerontology, Ministry of Health

Fellowships

1996.09-1997.01 Visting fellow in Research on embolic material (Onyx) for interventional neuroradiology in Cr2I, France (Prof. JJ. Merland and Dr. Alex. Laurent.)

1998.03-1998.09 Visting fellow on microsurgery and clinical neuro-anatomy, in Dept. of Neurosurgery of Vienna Medical University, Austria (Prof. W. Koos).

2001.04-2001.06 Visting Scholar in Interventional Neuroradiology Department of Methodist Hospital (Prof. M. Mawad), Neurosurgical Department of Arkansa Medical University (Prof. G. Yasargil, Prof. Al Melfty), Interventional Neuroradiology Department in New York (Prof. A. Bernstein)

2000.09-2003.08 Ph.D., M.D., Neurosurgery, Peking Union Medical College.

2006.09-2006.12 Visting Scholar in Interventional Neuroradiology (Prof. F.Vineula) and Neurosurgery (Prof. N.Martin) division in UCLA.

Certification

Certificated Neurosurgeon of Beijing Municipal Health Commission

Professional Memberships

Member-at-Large, World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology (WFITN)

Chairman, Chinese Federation of Interventional Clinical Neurosciences (CFITN)

Chairman, Committee of Clinical Neuroscience and Technology Transformation, China Association for Promotion of Health Science and Technology (CHSTPA)

General secretary, Asia-Australasian Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology (AAFITN)

Vice Chairman of Endovascular Surgery Committee, Chinese Association of Neurosurgery

Awards and Honors

1. Major Contributions to Medical Science and Technology Progress, Third Award issued by the Ministry of Health, No. 95300901 for “Classification of Spinal AVM and Its Treatment Indication”, 1995.

2. Major Achievement of State Key Project Award, the 8th Five-Year Plan, jointly granted by the State Planning Commission, the State Science and Technology Commission and the Treasury Ministry for “Practical Study on New Methods of Stroke CT-Guided Hematoma Vacuum and Endovascular Operation”, 1996.

3. Third Award, Major Contributions to Medical Science and Technology Progress for “The Practical Study of New Methods for Hemorrhagic and Ischemia Vascular Operation”, issued by the Ministry of Health, No. 97300303, 1997. 

4. Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Progress, The Second Prize issued by Beijing Science and Technology Commission, for “New Surgical Approaches to Hemorrhagic and Ischemia Vascular Diseases”, 1997.

5. The Second Prize, Science and Technology Progress for “Study on Hemodynamics of Cerebral AVM” issued by the State Education Commission, 1998.

6. State Science and Technology Key Project Achievement Award, No. 980595 granted by the State Commission of Science and Technology, PRC for “Research on New Surgical Methods for Hemorrhagic and Ischemia Vascular Diseases”, 1998. 

7. The Second Prize for “Studies on Endovascular Treatment of Cerebral AVM and its Angioarchitecture”, by the Ministry of Education, 1999.

8. The Second Prize, Science and Technology Progress for “Studies on Spine and Spinal Cord Embolization and Operation” by Beijing Municipal Government, 1999.

9. Excellent Thesis of “Research on the spinal vascular development and its clinical correlation” issued by the 4th National Congress of Interventional Neuroradiology, 1999.

10. First Excellent Thesis of “Anatomy Research on the spinal vascular embryonic development” issued by Chinese Science and Technology Association, 2003.

11.  “Honored Doctoral Student”, Peking Union Medical College, 2003.

12.  “New Star of Science and Technology” issued by Beijing Municipal Government, 2004-2007.

13.  Top 10 Beijing Youth (2008)

14.  Best doctor in Beijing (2010)

15.  Beijing Medal for workers (2015)

Publications

1. Zhang H Q, Chen T, Wu S-S, et al. The pathophysiology of venous hypertensive myelopathy--study of an animal model:  laboratory investigation[J]. J Neurosurg Spine,2013,19(4):485-491.

2. Hu P, Zhang H, Li G, He C, Bian L, Zhi X, Ling F. A trapping-evacuation technique for giant carotid-ophthalmic segment aneurysm clipping in a hybrid operating theater[J]. J CLIN NEUROSCI, 2015, 22(7):1184-1187.  IF：1.640

3. Hu P, Yang Q, Wang D, Guan S, Zhang H. Wall enhancement on high-resolution magnetic resonance imaging may predict an unsteady state of an intracranial saccular aneurysm[J]. NEURORADIOLOGY, 2016, 58(10):979-985. 

4. Jian Ren, Tao Hong, Hongqi Zhang. Characteristics and Long-Term Outcome of 20 Children With Intramedullary Spinal Cord Cavernous Malformations.Neurosurgery.2019.

5. Guan J, Li G, Kong X, He C, Long J, Qin H, Zhang H, Wang R. Endovascular treatment for ruptured and unruptured vertebral artery dissecting aneurysms: a meta-analysis[J]. J NEUROINTERV SURG, 2017, 9(6):558-563.

6. Hong T, Park JE, Ling F, TerBrugge KG, Tymianski M, Zhang HQ, Krings T. Comparison of 3 Different Types of Spinal Arteriovenous Shunts below the Conus in Clinical Presentation, Radiologic Findings, and Outcomes[J]. AM J NEURORADIOL, 2017, 38(2):403-409. 

7. T Hong, Y Yan,J Li, Hongqi Zhang. High prevalence of KRAS/BRAF somatic mutations in brain and spinal cord arteriovenous malformations. Brain. 2019 Jan 1;142(1):23-34

8. Jiaxing Y, Tao H, Krings T, Hongqi Zhang, et al. Natural history of symptomatic cord arteriovenous shunts. Brain. 2019.

9. Jian Ren, Tao Hong, Hongqi Zhang. Coexistence of Intracranial and Spinal Cord Cavernous Malformations Predict Aggressive Clinical Presentation. Frontiers in Neurology.2019,10:618

10. Jian Ren, Tao Hong,Chuan He, Xiaoyu Li, Yongjie Ma, Jiaxing Yu, Feng Ling, Hongqi Zhang. Surgical Approaches and Long-term Outcomes of Intramedullary Spinal Cord Cavernous Malformations: A Single-Center Consecutive Series of 219 Patients. Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine 2019