Guoming Luan (China)
Guoming Luan, achieved the Medical Degree in 1982 and studied under the guidance of Zhongcheng Wang, considered to be the founder of modern neurosurgery in China, at the Capital University of Medical Science, Beijing culminating in a PH.D in 1989. He gained professional research experience for two years in the University of California, Los Angels, USA (UCLA). Afterwards he devotes himself to clinical and research work about Functional Neurosurgery and focuses on the therapy of Epilepsy. In 2002, he created a technique, which is to use bipolar electrocoagulation to burn superficial cortex when treating refractory epilepsy. The latter was approved by the President of International Functional Neurosurgery later that year. This unique technique has now been adopted worldwide.
Professor Guoming Luan is Chief Expert and Director of Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery and co-founder of ‘The Brain Sciences Institute of Beijing’, established in 2004. He is currently acting editor and sub-editor for more than 9 medical journals including ‘The Journal of The Asian Epilepsy’, ‘The Chinese Journal of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery’ and ‘The Chinese Journal of Minimal Invasive Neurosurgery’. He has published more than 100 articles both in national and international journals. He is the ‘Editor in Chief’ of 8 books and has been published in over 10 National and Government led scientific publications. Furthermore, he has worked on 10 national, civic and ministry scientific research programs. He is not only a vice-chairman of China Association Against Epilepsy and also the next chairman of Asian Epilepsy Surgery Society and a committee member of International League Against Epilepsy.
