Areas of Expertise

Zhang Yixin works in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital. With years of experience, he specializes in breast plastic and reconstructive surgery, nasal plastic and reconstructive surgery, and scar reconstruction.

Biography

Zhang Yixin, Ph.D. in Plastic Surgery, Professor, Chief Physician, and Doctoral Supervisor, is the Director of the Reconstructive Microsurgery Center, Department of Plastic Surgery, Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. From July 2006 to August 2007, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Plastic Surgery Center of Duke University, USA; in August 2007, a Visiting Scholar in Oncoplastic Surgery at MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA; and in January 2008, a Visiting Scholar at the Dallas Rhinoplasty Center, USA. In 2012, he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Institute of Burn Research, Southwest Hospital of Chongqing, Third Military Medical University. In 2013, he was appointed Visiting Professor at Hunan Cancer Hospital Affiliated to Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University.

Professor Zhang Yixin has long been dedicated to tissue repair and microsurgical reconstruction. He was the first internationally to propose the concept of “economics” in reconstructive microsurgery, which was selected by the International Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery as the theme of the 2019 World Congress of Reconstructive Microsurgery. He has led and participated in multiple national and local Natural Science Foundation projects and special nanotechnology research projects. He has published more than 100 professional papers in core journals in China and abroad, including more than 30 SCI-indexed papers as first/corresponding author, and 8 original articles in PRS, the No. 1 journal in plastic surgery. He has been invited multiple times to chair and give presentations at domestic and international academic conferences, and to serve as a specially invited lecturer for international plastic surgery training. He is the chief editor of the monographs "Flaps and Reconstructive Microsurgery" and "Anterolateral Thigh Flap," chief translator of "Grabb's Encyclopedia of Flaps," and a contributing author of the monographs "Operative Microsurgery" (USA), "Oncoplastic Surgery," "Repair and Reconstruction of Head and Neck Defects," "The Art of Rhinoplasty," "Perforator Flaps," "Flap Surgery," etc.