Hu Kaiqiang, Secretary-General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Countries Multifunctional Economic and Trade Platform and Deputy Director of the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, Overseas Chinese and Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chongqing CPPCC, welcomed Professor Wei Qianping and her delegation.
Professor Wei Qianping expressed appreciation for the platform's positive role in promoting economic and trade cooperation and cultural exchanges between China and other SCO and "Belt and Road" countries. He stated the hope to strengthen interaction with the platform to actively contribute to international medical cooperation and exchanges among SCO countries.
In view of Professor Wei Qianping's professional achievements in the research, diagnosis, and treatment of geriatric endocrine diseases and cognitive impairment, and upon recommendation by the platform's Traditional Chinese Medicine Digital Health Working Committee, the platform's research decided to appoint Professor Wei Qianping as a Senior Professional Advisor to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Countries Multifunctional Economic and Trade Platform Think Tank, and held an appointment certificate awarding ceremony.
Wei Qianping currently serves as Chief Physician and Professor of the Geriatrics Department at the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, and is Deputy Director of the Geriatrics Branch of the Chongqing Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. She graduated from Chongqing Medical University with a doctorate in Endocrinology and Metabolism, receiving the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from Chongqing Medical University and Chongqing City, as well as the Excellent Master's Supervisor Award. She studied abroad at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet and Boston University in the USA, focusing on research into diabetic vascular complications. She has long been engaged in research on diabetes and its complications, leading and participating in multiple projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, Chongqing Municipal Health Commission, and Science and Technology Commission, including general and key projects. For her work "Pathogenesis and Intervention Research on Diabetes and Its Vascular Complications," she won the 2013 Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award (National Level) Second Prize, and for "Molecular Mechanisms and Intervention Research on Diabetic Vascular Complications," she won the 2006 Chongqing Science and Technology Progress First Prize. In recent years, she has published over 40 papers in SCI and core Chinese journals and supervised more than 30 graduate students. She has long been engaged in clinical and teaching work in geriatric medicine, focusing on the clinical diagnosis, treatment, and research of geriatric endocrine metabolic diseases, especially diabetes and its complications, with rich clinical experience and research and teaching capabilities. Her current main research directions are the prevention and treatment of diabetes and its complications, specializing in the prevention and treatment of geriatric endocrine diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and geriatric cognitive impairment.