XUAN Guowei

Xuan Guowei, National TCM Master of the secondbatch, is a member of the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He enjoys special allowances from the State Council, is the Chief Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. He serves as a consultant for the Dermatology Branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine, honorary president of the Guangdong Provincial Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, honorary director of the Dermatology Professional Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, honorary director of the Surgery Professional Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and consultant of the Dermatology Professional Committee of the GuangdongAssociationof Chinese IntegrativeMedicine. He is also a leading medical talent in Guangdong Province, the second, third, and fifth batches of mentor for the program"Inheritance of the Academic Experienceof National VeteranTCM Experts", and the first batch of postdoctoral cooperative mentors for TCM inheritance.Xuan Guowei is a recipient of various awards and honors, including being named aDistinguished TCMPractitionerin Guangdong Province in 1993, receiving theNationalOutstandingTeacherAward in 2001, the first Chinese Medicine Inheritance Special Contribution Award from the China Association of Chinese Medicine in 2006, and being recognized as one of the "Top Ten Health Guardians of Harmonious China" in 2007. In 2013, he was selected as a representative of the contemporary spirit of great medical practitioners by the Chinese Medical Association and the Medical DoctorWeekly. In 2019, he received the National Outstanding Contribution Award for Traditional Chinese Medicine. With six decades of medical practice, Xuan Guowei is renowned for his profound academic knowledge and remarkable treatment effects, earning him the title of the "Dermatology Saint". He advocates for theoretical research on TCM kidney-tonifying methods, applying these methods to achieve satisfactory results in treating skin diseases and difficult-to-treat conditions, and has received multiple Science and Technology Progress Awards from the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology, Guangdong Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine.His dedication to TCM theory research has contributed to the development of an integrated Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment system for dermatology, emphasizing the combination of syndrome differentiation and disease identification.