Areas of Expertise

Yang Xuewen, Chief Physician and Associate Professor at Wuhan University Stomatological Hospital and Director of Orthognathic and Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery, specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of orthognathic, dental, jaw, and facial deformities and the correction of various developmental or acquired dentofacial deformities. He leads the team in performing more than 500 orthognathic surgeries annually,

Biography

Yang Xuewen was born in April 1962 in Taicang, Jiangsu. He graduated with a master’s degree from the School of Stomatology, Wuhan University, and currently serves as Chief Physician and Associate Professor at Wuhan University Stomatological Hospital, Director of the Department of Orthognathic and Cleft Lip and Palate Surgery, and Chair-Elect of the Trauma and Orthognathic Surgery Committee of the Chinese Stomatological Association. After completing his undergraduate degree in 1985, he began clinical work in oral and maxillofacial surgery; he obtained his master’s degree in 1992 and has served as Director of the Department of Trauma and Plastic Surgery since 2015. He led the Hubei Provincial Department of Health key project “Clinical Study on Distraction Osteogenesis in the Treatment of Secondary Maxillary Deformity” and participated in the National Key Research and Development Program project “Intelligent Surgical Robot System for Minimally Invasive Transoral Craniomaxillofacial Surgery.” He leads a team that completes more than 500 orthognathic surgeries annually; he has developed and obtained multiple invention and utility model patents and co-authored 8 monographs, including “Treatment of Maxillofacial Trauma.” He has conducted academic exchanges at the Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kong, and Chung Shan Medical University in Taiwan, and has delivered keynote speeches at academic conferences of the Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma and Orthognathic Surgery Professional Committee of the Chinese Stomatological Association. In 2020, he participated in frontline COVID-19 prevention and control work in Wuhan, and in 2022 he was named a “Model of Medical Ethics” by Wuhan University.

Member, Orthognathic Surgery Group, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Specialty, Chinese Stomatological Association

Member, Hubei Burn and Plastic Surgery Society

Deputy Head, Medical Quality Group, Chinese Stomatological Hospital Management Committee

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Oral Science Research