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degrees under the supervision of
Fig 1. Professor Shi-ao Jin,

Prof. Jin from 1981 to 1987, and she is the first doctoral student of Anesthesiology cultivated in
mainland China. Prof. Jin devoted much effort to establishing Anesthesiology and participated in
making important decisions regarding the discipline. In August 1990, he discussed in Yunyang
Medical College about founding the first five-year undergraduate program in Anesthesiology in
Central China. In June 1991, he inspected the construction of the Department of Anesthesiology
at Xuzhou Medical College. Prof. Jin has always made ongoing efforts to set up an
Anesthesiology specialty independently. Academicians Fa-zu Qiu and Meng-chao Wu accepted
his viewpoints.

Apart from medical practice and education, Prof. Jin actively participated in writing books.
For the past half-century, he has published dozens of articles in journals at home and abroad and
co-authored dozens of textbooks and monographs. From 1981 to 1997, he held the post as a
standing member of the editorial board of the Chinese Journal of Anesthesiology and deputy-
editor-in-chief of the Journal of Clinical Anesthesiology. In 2000, he was invited by Science
Press to write a preface for the photocopy of a world-renowned anesthetic monograph
(Anesthesia 5th, ed. by Miller).

Prof. Jin is not only an outstanding medical expert, but also an excellent activist in foreign
affairs. As one of five representatives of the Ministry of Health of China, he was invited to attend
the “China Week” activities held by Saarland University in Germany in October 1982 (Figure 2).
From September 1984 to March 1985, he was hired as a visiting professor at the Institute of
Anesthesiology, Saarland University in Germany. On January 29th, 1985, Prof. Jin was invited
and made an academic report about medical education in China, anesthetic management of
orthotopic liver transplantation, and continuous epidural anesthesia at the School of Medicine,
Saarland University in Germany. His report was broadly welcomed and was reported by the local
newspaper on February 1st, 1985. German Red Cross awarded him a Certificate of Honor for his
significant contribution to the medical development between China and German. For years he
represented China to attend many international academic conferences, give lectures at the
conferences and bring honors to China. Prof. Jin visited more than ten countries and built good
cooperation relationship with many world-class universities.