AWARDEE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND MATERIA MEDICA PRIZE

XIAO CHUANGUO

Dr. Xiao Chuanguo, born in 1955 in Hubei, China, graduated from Hubei Medical College at 1975 and received his resident training of surgery and urology at Tongji Medical University. Dr. Xiao completed a one year fellowship on urooncology and endoscopic surgery at the Institute of Urology, the University of London, U.K., and then a two year AUA fellowship on reconstructive urology at the Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), Virginia, USA. Dr. Xiao has been on the faculty of Urology since 1988 (EVMS, 1988～１９90, State University of New York SUNY，1991～2000, and New York University NYU, 2001-present). Dr. Xiao is the professor and chairman of the Department of Urology (1997-present), and the director of the Institute of Urology (2002-present), at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong Science and Technology University.  Dr Xiao has been a member of American Urological Association and International Spinal Cord Injury Association, and a consultant (grant reviewer) to NIH study section of SAT group since 1992.
Dr. Xiao is well known internationally for his distinguished achievement in Neurourology. Supported by many research grants from Paralyzed Veterans of America, National Institute of Health of USA, and National Science Foundation of China, etc., Dr. Xiao proposed and proved a new concept in neurology that an artificial somatic-CNS-autonomic reflex arc can be established to restore bladder and bowel function caused by spinal cord injury or diseases.  Dr. Xiao has treated more than 90 patients with neurogenic bladder and bowel caused by spinal cord injury or spina bifida and restored bladder and bowel function successfully. The new reflex arc and the procedure to establish the reflex have been named after Dr. Xiao. Before received the HLHL Award, Dr. Xiao has been awarded Jack Lepides International Neurourology Awards (1993 & 2003 Grand Prize) , America Urological Association Achievement Award (2000), Chie-pin Wu Urological Award (2000)，Nature Science First Class Award from the Ministry of Education of China, First Class Science Award from Hubei Province (2000), and  National Award of China for Science and Technology (2001), etc.