Weishi Li

Professor Li Weishi is the Director of the Department of Orthopedics and the Director of Spine Surgery at Peking University Third Hospital, a Chief Physician, and a doctoral supervisor.

He also serves as the Director of the Engineering Research Center for Bone and Joint Precision Medicine of the Ministry of Education and the Director of the National Orthopedic Medical Quality Control Center (Preparatory).

He is a national-level innovative leading talent and a young and middle-aged innovative leading talent of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Professor Li graduated from the seven-year clinical medicine program at Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences in 1997 and obtained his doctoral degree in clinical surgery from Peking University Health Science Center in 2001.

He pursued advanced studies at the Spine Center of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Department of Orthopedics at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, accumulating rich international clinical experience.

He has worked in the Department of Orthopedics at Peking University Third Hospital since 2001, serving successively as Attending Physician, Associate Chief Physician, and Chief Physician, and has been the Director of the Department of Orthopedics since 2018.

In clinical practice, Professor Li specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of spinal disorders such as lumbar spinal stenosis, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spondylolisthesis, degenerative lumbar scoliosis, cervical spondylosis, thoracolumbar deformities, and thoracic spinal stenosis.

He has profound expertise in the precise diagnosis and treatment of degenerative spinal diseases.

He established a four-dimensional integrated assessment system based on sequence, bone, muscle, and nerve, and innovatively proposed the design concept of biomechanically adaptive interbody fusion cages, with products developed and applied clinically.

He also completed the world's first autonomous recognition and cutting surgery using a spinal lamina robot, promoting the development of intelligent spinal surgery.

In academic appointments, Professor Li serves as Vice President of the Orthopedic Surgeons Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Standing Committee Member of the Orthopedics Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, Board Member of AO Spine Asia Pacific and former Chair of AO Spine China, and Vice Chairman of the Orthopedics Branch of the Beijing Medical Association.

He has led two National Key R&D Program projects, three National Natural Science Foundation projects, and other research projects, with 17 authorized invention patents and over 120 published papers.

Professor Li also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Spine Research, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Spine and Spinal Cord, and Advisory Editorial Board Member of the journal Spine, exerting significant influence in the field of spine surgery both domestically and internationally.