Peking University, May 17, 2019: From March 29th to 30th, the 4th China-US Hospital Management Symposium and the 1st C3 China-US Healthcare Summit were held in Beijing. This is the first time that the C3 International Healthcare Summit held in China. The Global Outstanding Woman Award was presented at the conference. The award winner, Professor Qiao Jie, president of Peking University Third Hospital and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, received the award from Mr. Ransel Potter, founder of the C3 Summit.
Founded in New York in 2012 by Mr. Ransel Potter, the C3 Summit aims to establish an international platform for government-enterprise communication and regional cooperation. From the US-Arab Business and Healthcare Summit, the C3 Summit began to focus on the topics of health. C3 stands for Community, Collaboration, Commerce and aims to promote win-win cooperation in the field of healthcare. The C3 Summit has been held for 7 years and has become one of the most influential health conferences in the world.
The three major awards of the C3 Summit are the awards of International Vision, the Global Outstanding Woman, and the Lifetime Achievement. Previous winners include former US President Bill Clinton, former US Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, and Bahraini King Sheikh Hamad Bin Isa al-Khalifa and Mrs. Cherie Blair, the wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
C3 Award Ceremony
Qiao Jie is the director of the National Center for Clinical Medical Research of Maternal Diseases, president of the Chinese Women's Medical Association, chairman of the Reproductive Medicine Committee of the Chinese Medical Association, deputy director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, and editor of Human Reproduction Update (Chinese). She has been engaged in clinical and basic research related to maternity and reproductive health for many years. Her team has continuously studied the causes and treatment of common reproductive disorders, innovative integrated fertility preservation systems, and early human embryonic development from the perspective of genetics and epigenetics. She also leads the team of Peking University Third Hospital to treat 600,000 infertile patients each year. As the first or responsible author, she published 199 SCI articles in leading international magazines such as Lancet, Science, Cell, Nature, JAMA, and Nature Genetics.
Qiao Jie said that in the future, she would continue devoting herself to the work on maternity and reproductive health, exploring new technologies to contribute more on improving female fertility and preventing genetic birth defects, and she also hoped to have an opportunity to promote China-US cooperation and promote China’s development on reproductive health career.
The summit included a number of high-level themed lectures and round-table discussions, and invited experts and scholars from National Institutes of Health of the US, Harvard Medical School, Cleveland Clinic, and Children's National Medical Center of the US, and other experts, scholars and Nobel Prize winners from top North American scientific research institutions and medical centers. The participants exchanged ideas with experts of top domestic medical institutions and healthcare industry at home, establishing further cooperation between China and the United States in the field of medical care.
Written by: Zhang Yujuan
Edited by: Fu Wenyun
