Dr. Guotao Lu, MD, PhD, serves as Deputy Director and Chief Physician at the Affiliated Hospital of Yangzhou University (Jiangsu, China). As an influential academic leader, he also holds key roles in national academic committees, including as a grant review expert for Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the deputy chair of the Pancreatology Group at the Chinese Medical Association. His research focuses on fatty pancreas disease and metabolic-immune crosstalk in acute pancreatitis, driving innovations featured in 40+ high-impact publications — including landmark studies in Gut and Cell Reports Medicine — with an H-index of 25 and 2,000+ citations.