YU Chaohui
Department of Gastroenterology
YU Chaohui, Professor, Chief physician, vice president, Leader of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at FAHZU. He also holds positions as a standing committee member of the Internal Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a standing committee member of the Digestive Branch of the Chinese Geriatrics Society, the deputy director of the Translational Medicine Branch of the Chinese Gerontology and Geriatrics Society, and the director of the Zhejiang Clinical Research Center for Digestive System Diseases. He has been committed to the pathogenesis and treatment research of metabolic liver diseases. In recent years, he has led several national scientific research projects, including key projects of the National Key R&D Program and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation. His team has conducted a series of studies on fatty liver disease, establishing a cohort of over 10,000 individuals with an 18-year follow-up. He has identified that smoking, drinking, and poor dietary habits significantly increase the risk of fatty liver disease and long-term adverse outcomes. He has also revealed the specific mechanisms by which metabolic disorders such as hyperuricemia and abnormal free fatty acids promote the development of fatty liver disease. His research findings have been published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Gut, Journal of Hepatology, and American Journal of Gastroenterology, and he has won the first prize of the Ministry of Education’s Award for Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements in Higher Education as the first contributor. The digestive disease discipline he leads has ranked first in the national Science and Technology Evaluation Metrics (STEM) of Chinese hospitals for five consecutive years from 2019 to 2023.