Wuquan Deng, MD, PhD
Consultant, Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism
Vice President, Chongqing University Central Hospital
Vice President, Chongqing Emergency Medical Center Professor, King’s College London(https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/wuquan-deng)
Director, Chongqing Diabetic Foot Medical Research Centre
Founder, International Flow and Toe Research Team (iFORT)
No.1 Jiankang Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing 400014, China Email:
[email protected]
Clinical Interest: Diabetes; Critical Care Medicine; Emergency Medicine; Wound Repair and Regeneration; Digital Medicine.
Lab Research Interest: Dedicated to the study of the pathogenesis of diabetes; Critical Care Medicine; Regeneration and Repair in Diabetic Wound; Offloading and Biomechanical Study (Initiated FOOT study); International Flow and Toe Research Team (iFORT) ; Machine Learning and Medical Device Invention, Development, and Use.
Education Experience:
2025, Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London
2016, PhD in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Chongqing Medical University 2015, Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Arizona, Mentor: David G. Armstrong
2009, MSc in Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, Chongqing Medical University
2002, Sichuan University West China Medical Center
Work Experience:
2020.08-2024.03, Vice President, Consultant, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Chongqing University Central Hospital
2018.08-2024.03, Director of Endocrinology Department, Consultant, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Chongqing University Central Hospital
2018.10-2020.10, Deputy Director of Science and Education Department, Chongqing University Central Hospital
2014.12-2020.12 Deputy Consultant, Associate Professor, Master Supervisor, Chongqing Southwest Hospital
2009.07-2014.11 Attending Physician, Master Supervisor, Chongqing Southwest Hospital
Academic Research:
He has produced more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers in dozens of scholarly medical journals as well as 15 book chapters. He has been invited and severed as a reviewer for many journals as following: Diabetes, Ebiomedicine, STTT, JCI insights, Diabetes Res Clin Pract, BMJ Open Diabetes Research, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, et al.
Journal Editors:
Research (Associate Editor)
Clinical and Experimental Hypertension (Associate Editor)
Burns and Trauma (Editor)
Academic (Societal) Positions:
He has been dominated and serviced as a member at American limbs preservation society (ALPS), WHO-D-Foot International, Chinese American Diabetes Association (CADA), Group of Diabetic Foot and Peripheral Vascular Disease, Group of Basic
and Translational, Branch Association of Diabetes, Chinese Medical Association.
Speakers at international conferences:
Dr. Deng was invited as one of speaker at 2016 Chinese Diabetes Society (CDS) in Xiamen, China and 2018 European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Berlin regarding the mechanism of diabetic wound healing. In 2019, Dr. Deng has been also invited as a moderated poster discussion presenter at the American Diabetes Association’s 79th Scientific Sessions in SF, a keynote speaker at the 19th Diabetic Foot Global Conference (DFcon) in LA. In 2020, oral presentation at EASD. In 2021, a keynote speaker at DFcon in LA. In 2022, five posters were accepted for publication in IWGDF. In 2024, keynote speaker at UCD Charles Institute of Dermatology. In 2025, four oral presentation at EASD in Austria.
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