Liu Chan (1927- ), professor, doctorial supervisor, graduated from Peking Union Medical College in 1955, worked at Peking Union Medical College Hospital. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Iowa from 1981 to 1983. From 1985 to 1994, he was the third director of BIO, director of ENT Department of Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University and vice-chairman of the sixth commit…

　　Liu Chan (1927- ), professor, doctorial supervisor, graduated from Peking Union Medical College in 1955, worked at Peking Union Medical College Hospital. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Iowa from 1981 to 1983. From 1985 to 1994, he was the third director of BIO, director of ENT Department of Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University and vice-chairman of the sixth committee of the Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery of the Chinese Medical Association. In 1983, he became the first to present China’s survey on people with deaf and dumb disabilities at WHO meeting. He was appointed and served as China’s deafness-prevention consultant of the WHO for 20 years (1986-2006).

　　In his career, he was devoted to the research of vestibular physiology, deafness and vertigo. He was the first to use anisodamine in the treatment of vertigo. He was awarded the national prizes several times (1981, 1984) for his achievements on anisodamine (a novel medicine)- deafness prevention study. In 1986 he received a national funding, which was the first key state program undertaken by BIO since its establishment. He won the prize of expert with outstanding contribution from Beijing municipal government in 1987 and has been an visiting professor of the University of Basel, Switzerland since 1990. He retired from his post in 1994, and has been serving the BIO as a consultant ever since.