Zhang Jinzhe | |||||||
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张金哲 | |||||||
Born | [1] | 25 September 1920||||||
Died | 24 December 2022 Beijing, China | (aged 102)||||||
Alma mater | Yenching University Peking Union Medical College St. John's University, Shanghai Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University | ||||||
Scientific career | |||||||
Fields | Pediatrics | ||||||
Institutions | Beijing Children's Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Simplified Chinese | 张金哲 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 張金哲 | ||||||
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Zhang Jinzhe (Chinese: 张金哲; 25 September 1920 – 24 December 2022) was a Chinese pediatrician, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.[2]
Zhang was a member of the 7th and 8th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[3]
Zhang was born in Ninghe County (now Ninghe District of Tianjin), Hebei, on 25 September 1920.[3] He attended Tianjin Yaohua High School, and graduated from Yenching University, Peking Union Medical College, St. John's University, Shanghai, and Shanghai Medical College.[3]
Since June 1947, Zhang successively served as attending surgeon, teaching assistant, lecturer, associate professor at the Affiliated Hospital to Medical College of Peking University.[3] From 1951 to 1953, he worked as a surgeon in the Korean battlefield during the Korean War.[4] In June 1955, he was recruited by the newly founded Beijing Children's Hospital , and worked until 2011, when he was transferred to the Beijing Hu Yamei Children's Medical Research Institute as its president.[3] He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in December 1956.[3]
On 24 December 2022, Zhang died in Beijing, at the age of 102.[3]