Invited Faculty
Haodong Xu
University of Washington School of Medicine, USA
2019/7/22 21:14:02
Dr. Haodong Xu is a Tenured Professor, Director of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Pathology, and Director of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Pathology Fellowship Program in the Department of Pathology at the University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, United States. Dr. Xu graduated from Suzhou Medical College in 1987 and obtained his MS and PhD degrees in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He spent 5 years studying the molecular mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmias as a Postdoctoral Fellow, and 4 years in residency training at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He did one-year fellowship training in the Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology with Dr. William Travis at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. In July 2004, he began his new job as an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007, then Professor in 2011. He was recruited by UCLA as a Professor-in-Residency in August 2013 and his primary clinical interests were in Heart, Lung, Head and Neck, and Autopsy Pathology. He was recruited by the University of Washington as a Professor with tenure in July 2017. He is a Director of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Pathology. He recently built up an ACGME-accredited Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Pathology Fellowship Program as a Director. He serves different journals as an editorial board member. Dr. Xu has been pursuing translational research in lung diseases, and basic research in cardiac arrythmia. His basic research program has been supported by NIH K08 and R01 grants, and AHA Grant-in-Aid award.