Professor Cunchuan Wang was born in the Sichuan Province in China, the beautiful hometown of the panda. He graduated from Luzhou Medical College (now named as Southwest Medical University) in Sichuan Province, China, and then worked in the Department of General Surgery in Xuanhan People’s Hospital for 2 years. After his postgraduate study in Jinan University, Professor Wang started working as a laparoscopic surgeon in the Department of General Surgery, the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. Later, he obtained his PhD Degree in Huazhong University of Science and Technology Tongji Medical College. Professor Wang is a pioneer of laparoscopic surgery in China. He was also a visiting scholar at Mount Sinai Medical Center in the USA in 2000, where he met Professor Michel Gagner, a world renowned laparoscopic bariatric surgeon.
Professor Wang started performing metabolic and bariatric surgery in China in 2000, becoming the first surgeon to perform the laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) in mainland China. Additionally, Professor Wang performed a LRYGB on a male with a BMI of 99 who was at the time considered as the man with highest BMI in China. Professor Wang also introduced the concept of “Precise metabolic and bariatric surgery” which resulted in better surgical outcomes and safety. In his center, the procedures primarily performed are the LRYGB, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), reduced ports or single port LRYGB or LSG, and a variety of revisional surgeries, etc. Currently, his center has the largest case volume in China.
Professor Wang initiated the founding of the Chinese Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (CSMBS) in 2012 with experts from Shenyang and Shanghai. He is currently the President of the CSMBS, Vice-President of the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, and Director of the Department of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (International Bariatric Center). As the bariatric expert of China, he also received special government allowances from the State Council in China.
