Yang Yi, Professor, Chief Physician, Doctoral Advisor, Distinguished Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program sponsored by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, selected in the National Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talents Project. He serves as Deputy Party Secretary and Vice Dean of The First Hospital of Jilin University; Deputy Party Secretary and Vice Dean of The First Hospital of Jilin University; Deputy Secretary-general of Neurology Branch of Chinese Medical Association; a member of the Standing Committee of Chinese Stroke Association; Chairman of Standing Youth Committee, Stroke Prevention Project, National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China; Deputy Secretary-general of China Stroke Center Management Committee, Stroke Prevention Project Committee, National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China; Vice Chairman of Cerebrovascular Disease Branch of Chinese Geriatrics Society; Vice Chairman of Precision Health Medicine Branch of Chinese Association of Geriatric Research; Vice Chairman of Neurology Branch of China International Exchange and Promotive Association for Medical and Health Care; Vice Chairman of Neural Regeneration and Repair Committee, China Research Hospital Association; Chairman of Neurology Branch of Jilin Medical Association; President of Jilin Stroke Association.

Main research interests: Cerebrovascular diseases; he focuses on research on cerebral blood flow regulation and neuroprotection; he has published more than 100 academic papers in journals such as JAMA Neurology, Neurology, and Stroke; he has presided more than 30 projects involving the Key R&D Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and other provincial and ministerial-level projects; he participated in the compilation of 9 national textbooks on neurology and 10 national guidelines and expert consensus for stroke in China.