Speakers

Professor Shao-Liang Chen

Nanjing First Hospital & Nanjing Heart Centre, China

Professor Chen is an interventional cardiologist, vice-President of Nanjing First Hospital, Nanjing Medical University, and Chief Director of Cardiology Department. He has completed more than 10000 PCI cases including CTO and LM PCIs to date.

During 2002 he  set up the PCI database and QCA core Lab of the center through which 8 RCT including and registry studies including LM & bifurcation lesions , CTO and AMI treatments have been completed. In 2004 he modified classical crush into DK (double kissing and double crush) crush technique which increase the final kissing inflation rate to nearly 100%.  He then organized DKCRUSH serial trials which confirmed advantage of DK crush technique in term of TLR/TVR and MACE compared with classic crush, provisional and culotte stenting since 2005. 

Since 2012 he has focused on pulmonary artery hypertension treatment. He designed the new device named as pulmonary artery denervation radiofrequency ablation catheter.