Li Chao

Attending Physician

Specializes in conducting precise and professional nutritional assessments and interventions for patients with diabetes, liver disease, kidney disease, and tube feeding; provides individualized and multi-modal nutritional treatment plans including dietary guidance, Tonic Diet, enteral nutrition, and parenteral nutrition.

Introduction of the expert

The Attending physician holds a masters degree in nutrition. She graduated from Zhengzhou University and has undergone further studies at Tianjin Cancer Hospital and Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center. She specializes in nutritional intervention for overweight or obesity, impaired glucose tolerance (prediabetes), diabetes, hypertension, hyperuricemia, hyperlipidemia, weight loss and malnutrition, sarcopenia, perioperative period of tumors, peri-chemotherapy period of tumors, peri-radiotherapy period of tumors, tumor recovery period, constipation, diarrhea, liver disease, and kidney disease.

Medical Expertise

Specializes in nutritional intervention for overweight or obesity, impaired glucose tolerance (pre-diabetes), diabetes, hypertension, hyperuricemia, hyperlipidemia, weight loss and malnutrition, sarcopenia, peri-operative period of tumors, peri-chemotherapy period of tumors, peri-radiotherapy period of tumors, tumor recovery period, constipation, diarrhea, liver disease, and kidney disease.

Professional Society Memberships

I. Member of the Second Committee of the Diet and Culinary Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society

II. Standing Committee Member of the Nutrition Specialty Committee of the Hainan Provincial Preventive Medicine Association

III. Standing Committee Member of the Clinical Nutrition Specialty Committee of the Hainan Provincial Nutrition Society

IV. Member of the Medical Quality Control Center for Clinical Nutrition Specialty in Hainan Province

V. Standing Committee Member of the First Medical Nutrition Food Branch of the Hainan Provincial Nutrition Society

Personal Honors

As the first author, I have published 4 academic papers (including 1 in the first quartile of the SCI in the field of nutrition). I have participated in the compilation of 2 textbooks and 2 monographs. I have been invited as a guest speaker for several times on programs such as "Healthy Hainan" on Haikou Radio Station and "Popular Food Safety" on Haikou TV Station.

We were awarded the first prize for individuals and the second prize for teams in the second nutrition skills competition organized by the Health Commission of Hainan Province; we were honored with the Excellent Science Popularization Work Award in the second phase of the "Science Popularization through White Coats" program in 2024, also organized by the Health Commission of Hainan Province; and we were bestowed with the title of "Rising Star" for the "Dietary Guidelines Science Popularization Master" in 2023, by the Chinese Nutrition Society.