Tianlong Wang
Editor-in-Chief, Anesthesiology and Medicine
Department of Anesthesiology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Department of Anesthesiology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
Professor Wang Tianlong currently serves as Director of the Department of Anesthesiology and Operating Rooms, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University. He is a Chief Physician, Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor.
He graduated from Peking University Health Science Center in 1989 and obtained his doctoral degree in Anesthesiology from the Graduate School of Peking University Health Science Center in 2000. From 2001 to 2002, he completed his postdoctoral training at the Anesthesia Laboratory of Hôpital Notre-Dame, Université de Montréal, Canada.
He concurrently holds key academic positions including President-Elect of the Chinese Society of Anesthesiology, Chinese Medical Association; Chairman of the National Geriatric Anesthesia Alliance (NAGA); Vice President of the Chinese Anesthesiologists Association, Chinese Medical Doctor Association; and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Anesthesiology.
Professor Wang has presided over more than 20 national and provincial research projects, published over 100 SCI papers and more than 400 core journal articles, and obtained over 10 national invention patents. In 2012, he initiated and established the Geriatric Anesthesiology Group of the Chinese Society of Anesthesiology, serving as its founding group leader until 2023. During his tenure, he led the formulation and release of over 10 expert consensus statements and clinical guidelines on geriatric anesthesia and perioperative management, pioneering and standardizing clinical practice for geriatric anesthesia and perioperative care across China. As the chief writer of the 2018 and 2021 editions of the Chinese Clinical Practice Guidelines for Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS), he has played a pivotal role in advancing the development and nationwide implementation of ERAS in China. In 2024, he pioneered two core disciplinary terminologies in anesthesiology, namely perioperative precise multimodal analgesia and multimodal cerebral monitoring under general anesthesia, and promoted their standardized clinical application and nationwide dissemination.
His major research interests cover three domains:
Innovative and translational research on perioperative cerebral health management;
Mechanisms and intervention strategies of the gut microbiota–gut–brain axis in perioperative cognitive impairment in elderly patients and perioperative cognitive deterioration in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI);
Basic and clinical research on perioperative vulnerable organ protection.
His specialized clinical subspecialties focus on geriatric anesthesia and neurosurgical anesthesia.