About Long Li’s work
Long Li held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong from November to December 1997 and from June to December 1999. At the time, Li was based at Beijing Children’s Hospital.
Biography
Li Long graduated from China Medical University in 1985 and received his Ph.D. from Capital Medical University in 1993. From 1988 to June 2005, he worked in the Department of Pediatric Surgery of the Second Hospital of China Medical University, Beijing Children's Hospital and Peking University First Hospital, and in 1995 and 2000 he visited United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Japan to study Pediatric Laparoscopic Surgery and Pediatric Liver Transplantation. He is a committee member and editorial board member of multiple domestic and foreign organizations and journals, including Chinese Pediatric Surgery, British and Japanese Pediatric Surgery. Li is specialized in treating complex pediatric cases in particular congenital atresia, megacolon, common bile duct cyst, biliary atresia, liver transplantation and its complications. Li pioneered a series of new surgeries in China, such as laparoscopic treatment of choledochal cyst and biliary atresia, with small damage, fast recovery and insignificant scarring. In 2001, he performed the first pediatric liver transplant in China.