Shangbin CUI

385Personal Motto

• My medical philosophy is rooted in compassion and a commitment to helping every patient to the best of my ability. I strive to make complex surgeries safer, minimize the invasiveness of open procedures, and simplify intricate operations. I am dedicated to understanding my patients’ urgent needs and considering their perspectives throughout their care.

Professional Expertise

• Upper cervical spine deformity, basilar invagination, atlantoaxial dislocation, odontoid process fracture, atlantoaxial fracture
• Single-segment and multi-segment cervical spondylosis
• Minimally invasive surgery for cervical spondylosis
• Thoracic spinal stenosis, ossification of the ligamentum flavum, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament, and minimally invasive surgery for thoracolumbar fractures
• Minimally invasive treatment of lumbar intervertebral disc protrusion, lumbar spondylolisthesis, lumbar spinal stenosis, and lumbar spondylolysis
• Osteoporosis and related pathological fractures
• Spinal tumors, including primary tumors and spinal metastases, total vertebral resection, or minimally invasive tumor ablation
• Neurogenic tumors within the spinal canal
• Spinal deformities such as juvenile or congenital scoliosis, adult degenerative scoliosis, and kyphosis deformity due to ankylosing spondylitis
• Spinal infections and related diseases, such as spinal tuberculosis

Educational Background

• From September 2005 to June 2013, completed an eight-year clinical medicine program at Sun Yat-sen University.

Clinical Experience

• Since 2013, worked in the Spinal Surgery Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
• From January 2019 to December 2020, served as a visiting scholar at the AO Orthopedic Institute in Switzerland for two years
• In 2022, appointed associate chief physician at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

Academic Achievements

• Received the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young Scholars in 2022
• Participated in multiple national, provincial, and municipal scientific research projects
• Published more than 30 SCI papers, with 9 as the first author or co-first author in internationally renowned journals such as the European Spine Journal and Journal of Orthopedic Translation, and 20 papers in Chinese core journals

Personal Honors and Professional Affiliations

• Young Academic Committee Member of the Chinese Journal of Trauma
• First member of the Innovative Orthopedics Department of the Wu Jieping Medical Foundation
• Member of the Orthopedic Clinical Research and Application Branch of the China Association of Geriatric Health Care
• Core member of the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Orthopedics
• Expert at the Guangdong Scoliosis Center
• Expert at the Guangdong Province Scoliosis New Seedling Fund Center
• Special invited reviewer for the internationally renowned spinal surgery journal The Spine Journal
• China Tianji Orthopedic Robot Instructor and Training Instructor
• AO Research Institute Fellow
• Member of AO Spine
• Member of AO Trauma
• Member of the AO Research Institute