Affiliation: The Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University

Dr. Sidong Yang has been working as an Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon in one of the top orthopaedic hospitals in China since 2014. His spine department has a big workload of spine surgeries, more than 5000 surgeries annually. So far, Dr. Yang has published more than 80 peer reviewed papers in international journals, secured nationally competitive grants as lead and co-lead chief investigator, worked as a peer reviewer and guest editor for many high impact international journals in his field, and is a committed participant and leader in national and international committees, including AO Spine International, Chinese Association of Research Hospitals, and Shijiazhuang Medical Association-Orthopaedic Surgeons Branch. Dr Yang is clearly a committed and passionate clinician researcher in spine research who endeavours to address the major deficiencies in our current surgical practices applied to IVD diseases and age-associated loss of IVD health.