About Siyan Zhan’s work
Based at Beijing Medical University, Siyan Zhan held a Croucher Visitorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from April to October 1998.
Biography
Siyan Zhan received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Beijing Medical University and his PhD from Hong Kong Chinese University. After graduating with a master’s degree in 1989, she stayed on to teach, and was promoted to professor in 2001. She is currently serves the Dean of the School of Public Health, the Director of the Key Laboratory of Epidemiology of Major Diseases of the Ministry of Education, the Director of the Clinical Epidemiology Research Center of Peking University Third Hospital.
At the same time, Zhan serves as the Executive Director of the Chinese Pharmaceutical Association, the Chairman of the Epidemiology Branch of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association, the Vice Chairman of the Public Health Education Branch. Zhan has made a number of pioneering contributions in the field of post-marketing drug safety research, such as the application of prescription sequence symmetry analysis in the study of adverse drug reaction signal mining, and the validation and application of the Common Data Model (China OMOP Project) in China's domestic medical database.