Jichao Zhao
Dr. Jichao Zhao is a cardiac researcher in New Zealand. He was born in China and obtained his PhD at The Western University, London, Canada.
Bio
Associate Professor Jichao Zhao is a Principal Investigator (PI) and leads a research team at Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland (UoA), Auckland, New Zealand. His group aims to improve our understanding of atrial fibrillation. He has established an international reputation as a leading researcher and in 2019, he was awarded a UoA Research Excellence Medal for his work.
He has a total of 78 journal/book chapter publications (via SciVerse Scopus, Elsevier). His publications’ annual citations increased from 116 in 2015 to 380 in 2019, and are expected to reach >400 in 2020 (Google Scholar). In the past five years, he has published ~50 journal articles or book chapters, including 9 with an impact factor (IF) of >6.0 and 21 as lead author, e.g.,
- He is the senior author of a 2019 article published in a top-ranking medical imaging journal IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging with an impact factor (IF) of 9.7. The article has been cited 45 times.
- He is the senior author of a recently accepted article in the top-ranking medical imaging journal Medical Image Analysis with an IF of 11.1. This benchmarking study was conducted with 42 international co-authors on behalf of ~100 participants of a 2018 global segmentation challenge.
- His 2017 modelling study was published in the Journal of the American Heart Association with an IF of 5.1 and has been cited 67 times (Google Scholar).
- His 2015 European Heart Journal article (IF=23.2) was cited >254 times (Google Scholar) and has been used as evidence in the most recent clinical guideline for atrial fibrillation. This study was conducted with his overseas collaborator Prof. Vadim Fedorov at the Ohio State University.
Awards
He has received a variety of grants as a PI with a total ~$3M and as a Named Investigator in a grant worth $5M.
- PI, a project grant from the Health Research Council of New Zealand (2016-21), ~$1.2M.
- PI, a 4-year US National Institute of Health (NIH) R01 grant (2017-21), USD ~$0.5M.
- PI, a 5-year US NIH R01 grant (2018-23), USD ~$0.45M.
- PI, competitive project grants from Auckland Medical Research Foundation (~$120K), HRC Emerging Researcher First Grant (~$110K), National Heart Foundation (~$43K) and Lottery Health Council (~$56K).
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