Dr. Xingshun Qi was born in July 1984 in Shenyang, China. He obtained his medical doctoral degree at the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an, China. He completed his post-doctoral fellowship at the General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area in Shenyang, China. Now, he is a deputy director at the Department of Gastroenterology of the General Hospital of Northern Theater Command (formerly General Hospital of Shenyang Military Area). His major research interests are the clinical researches in the etiology, diagnosis, and management of liver cirrhosis, portal hypertension (especially portal vein thrombosis and Budd-Chiari syndrome), and hepatocellular carcinoma. His major work was published in the Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology, BMC Medicine, Journal of Hepatology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Thrombosis and Haemostasis, American Journal of Medicine, etc. He edited 7 English-language books in the publishers Springer and IntechOpen, and wrote several chapters for 12 English- or Chinese-language books. He served or is serving as a co-Editor-in-Chief of AME Medical Journal, an associate editor of Annals of Hepatology, an associate editor of BMC Gastroenterology, an academic editor of Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, an academic editor of Medicine, an associate editor of Frontiers in Medicine, an advisory editorial member of Advances in Therapy, an advisory editorial member of Diabetes Therapy, an editorial board bember of Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology, a lead guest editor in Gastroenterology Research and Practice, BioMed Research International, and Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology, a guest editor in Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, an editorial member of World Journal of Hepatology, World Journal of Meta-Analysis, and Cardiovascular & Hematological Disorders - Drug Targets, and a column executive editor of Journal of Translational Internal Medicine. He served as a peer-reviewer in more than 185 journals, including The Lancet Haematology, Journal of Hepatology, Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Endoscopy, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Thrombosis and Haemostasis, etc. According to the Scopus, his H-index is 40, and total number of citation is 5423 now.