Focus on China: should clinicians engage in research? and lessons from other countries

Zhongheng Zhang¹, Gavin P Winston¹, Hai-Tao Zhao¹+12

• ¹1 Department of Critical Care Medicine, Jinhua Municipal Central Hospital, Jinhua Hospital of Zhejiang University, Jinhua 321000, China ; 2 Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, University College London (UCL) Institute of Neurology, London, UK ; 3 Department of Liver Surgery, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College (CAMS & PUMC), Beijing 100730, China ; 4 Department of Radiology, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands ; 5 Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China ; 6 Department of Vascular, Oncologic and Interventional Radiology, Le2i UMR CNRS 6306, Bocage Teaching Hospital, University of Dijon School of Medicine, Dijon Cedex, France ; 7 Imaging Center, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China ; 8 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China ; 9 Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Kentucky, USA ; 10 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Nantong University, Nantong 226001, China ; 11 Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA ; 12 Department of Laboratory Medicine, The Affiliated Wuxi Second Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Wuxi 214002, China ; 13 Department of Cardiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China ; 14 AME Publishing Company, Guangzhou 510000, China.