A clinical case using the Alton Medical CT knife tool

Pinhong Zhou, MD, Professor of Surgery, is currently an expert in therapeutic endoscopy, a member of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (FASGE), vice president of the Chinese Society of Digestive Endoscopy (CSDE), and head of the Endoscopy Center of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Dr. Zhou graduated from Shanghai Medical University in 1992. After completing basic surgical training at Zhongshan Hospital from 1992 to 1998, he began training in digestive endoscopy as a senior resident in 1999. He also received the most comprehensive training in various renowned fields of advanced endoscopies such as EUS under Kenjiro Yasuda in Japan in 2000, ESD under Hiroyuki Ono in Japan in 2006, ERCP under Peter B Cotton in USA in 2008.

His main research focuses on endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. Currently, his main work is minimally invasive surgery. As one of the pioneers of ESD in China, he has gained extensive experience in EMR, EPMR and ESD. Recently, he has become very interested in endoscopic resection of submucosal tumors (SMT) and tunnel endoscopic surgery such as peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for esophageal achalasia. He organized and chaired the 1st-13th China-Japan ESR Summit and 54 ESR training courses in China, receiving invitations to give presentations and demonstrations in more than 30 countries.