Yan Zhang, MD

Titles

Chief Physician, Professor, Doctoral Tutor of Infertility and Sex Medicine Department, the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University

Deputy Director of Chinese Andrology Microsurgery Training Center

Committee Member of the Andrologist Branch of China Physicians Association, and Vice Chairman of Male Fertility Specialist Committee

Standing Committee Member of Asian Andrology Association, and Vice Chairman of Male Sterility Committee

Standing Committee Member and Deputy Secretary General of the Male Reproductive Medicine Branch of China Sexology Association

Director of the Male Reproductive Medical Branch of Guangdong Genitourinary Association

Standing Committee Member of the Sexology Branch of China Sexology Association

Standing Committee Member of the Andrology Branch of Guangdong Medical Association, and the Surgery Group Deputy Team Leader

Editorial Board Member of National Journal of Andrology

Research Interests

Erectile Dysfunction

Male Infertility

Microsurgical Varicocelectomy

vasoepididymostomy

Urinary Incontinence

Penile Prosthesis Implantation

Artificial Urinary Sphincter Implantation

Dr. Zhang’s research interests have been focused on microsurgical techniques and applications for male infertile patients. Dr. Zhang received training in the Medical Center of George Washington University and Johns Hopkins Hospital, and he took the pioneering work of penile prosthesis implantation, artificial urinary sphincter implantation, microsurgical varicocelectomy in the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University.

Education and Experience

Education

Doctoral Fellowship of Tong Ji Medical College (1999)

Postdoctoral Fellowship of Sun Yat-Sen University (2004)

Certifications

Workship using featuring: Advance@ male sling system; AMS 700@ inflatable penile prosthesis& AMS 800@ artificial urinary sphincter (2011)

Urologic innovations update course in Baylor college of medicine (2012)

Attendance of LA live - robotic & live surgery symposium hosted by USC institute of urology (2013)

Honors and Awards

NSFC General Projects, 81571424, the role and mechanism on Chinese congenital absence of vas deferens induced by CFTR Gene mutation

NSFC General Projects, 30972996, the role and mechanism of 14-3-3e in germ cells apotosis induced by varicocele

Publications

1.Zhang Y. Asymptomatic postpubertal male with palpable left varicocele and subclinical right varicocele. ASIAN J ANDROL 2016; 18: 311.

2.Zhang Y, Wu X, Yang X, Zhang H, Zhang B. Vasal vessels preserving microsurgical vasoepididymostomy in cases of previous varicocelectomy: a case report and literature review. ASIAN J ANDROL 2016; 18: 154-6.

3.Yang X, Sun Q, Yuan P, Liang H, Wu X, Lai L, et al. Novel mutations and polymorphisms in the CFTR gene associated with three subtypes of congenital absence of vas deferens. FERTIL STERIL 2015; 104: 1268.

4.Zhang Y, Yang X, Wu X, Zhang H, Chen S, Gao X. Microsurgical Varicocelectomy With Transfixing of the Difficult-to-isolate Periarterial Vein Using Microsutures. UROLOGY 2015; 85: 948-52.

5.Zhang H, Liu X, Yang X, Huang W, Ruan X, Xiao H, et al. Loupe-assisted versus microscopic varicocelectomy: is there an intraoperative anatomic difference. ASIAN J ANDROL 2014; 16: 112-4.

6.Zhang Y, Zhang H, Liu X, Gao X. RIGHT CORPUS CAVERNOSUM SHUNT VERSUS LEFT CORPUS CAVERNOSUM SHUNT PLUS INTRACAVERNOUS TUNNELING: A SELF CONTRAST STUDY IN THE SAME PENIS FOR PROLONGED ISCHEMIC PRIAPISM. J SEX MED 2013; 103: 223.

7.Zhang Y, Zhang H, Huang W, Liu X, Gao X. MICROSURGICAL 2-SUTURE INTUSSUSCEPTION VASOEPIDIDYMOSTOMY: TRANSVERSAL OR LONGITUDINAL? J SEX MED 2013; 103: 225.

8.Zhang Y, Zhang B, He Q, Yang X, Liu X, Gao X. 14-3-3 EPSILON MAY PLAY AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE MECHANISM OF SPERMATOGENIC CELL APOPTOSIS IN RAT EXPERIMENTAL VARICOCELE. J SEX MED 2013; 103: 240.

9.Liu X, Zhang H, Ruan X, Xiao H, Huang W, Li L, et al. Macroscopic and microsurgical varicocelectomy: what's the intraoperative difference? WORLD J UROL 2013; 31: 603-8.

Contact

Yan Zhang MD.

Department of Sexual and Infertility,

The 3rd Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University,

600 TianHe Road,

Guangzhou 510630,

China

Tel:86-020-85253151