Academic & Professional Qualification

• M.D., Peking Union Medical College
• Ph.D. in Health Policy, Harvard University

Biography

• CEO, China Merchants Health Care Holding Company (2020-2023)
• Chief Strategy Officer, WuXi AppTec Group (2018-2020)
• Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, Peking University Guanghua School of Management (2013-2018)
• Assistant Professor of Management, Director of Health Care Research Center, CEIBS (2008-2013)

Teaching

• Disruptive Innovation and Business Growth
• Non-market Strategy
• Strategy Innovation in Health Care

Research Interest

• Specializing in strategy, innovation and health care sector

Selected Publications

• DC Hodgson, Wei Zhang, John Z. Ayanian, and Alan M. Zaslavsky. “Relation of hospital volume to colostomy rates and survival for patients with rectal cancer”. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2003 May 21, 95(10):708-16.
Top journal on Oncology
• Wei Zhang, John Z. Ayanian, and Alan M. Zaslavsky. “Patient characteristics and hospital quality for colorectal cancer surgery”. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 2007, 19:11-20.
Top journal on Quality of Care
• Wei Zhang, Xue Liu, “Challenges facing China’s pharmaceutical industry and policy implications” in Prescribing Cultures and Pharmaceutical Policy in the Asia-Pacific. K. Eggleston, ed. Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, 2009, Brookings Press.
• Xu Weiwei, Sheiman Igor, van de Ven Wynand P M M, Wei Zhang. “Prospects for regulated competition in the health care system: what can China learn from Russia’s experience?” Health Policy and Planning. 2011 May, 26(3):199-209.
• Zheng H, Wei Zhang, Ayanian JZ, Zaborski LB, Zaslavsky AM. “Profiling Hospitals by Survival of Patients with Colorectal Cancer”. Health Services Research. 2011 Jun, 46(3):729-46.
Top journal on Health Services Research
• Janet Currie, Wanchuan Lin, Wei Zhang. “Patient Knowledge and Antibiotic Abuse: Evidence from an Audit Study in China”. Journal of Health Economics. 2011, 30(5):933-49.
Top journal on Health Economics
• Wei Zhang, Leiping Xu, Hongli Hang. “MicroPort Scientific: An Odyssey Starting with Coronary Stents”. Asian Case Research Journal. VOL.19, ISSUE 2, 377-417, 2015.
• Wei Zhang, Xu Leiping. “MicroPort : An Odyssey Starting with Stent”. CEIBS Case No. CI-311-025, 2011.
• Wei Zhang, Xu Leiping. “The Coronary Stent Market in China”. CEIBS Case No. CI-311-026, 2011.
• S. Ramakrishna Velamuri, Wei Zhang. “LifeSpring Hospitals”. CEIBS-Ivey Case, 2011.
• S. Ramakrishna Velamuri, Wei Zhang. “LV Prasad Eye Institute”. ISB-Ivey Case, 2011.
• William C Kirby, Wei Zhang, Yuanzhuo Wang, Nancy Hua Dai. “Wenzhou Kangning Hospital: Changing Mental Healthcare in China (A)”. Harvard Business School Case N2-318-054, 2018.
• William C Kirby, Wei Zhang, Yuanzhuo Wang, Nancy Hua Dai. “Wenzhou Kangning Hospital: Changing Mental Healthcare in China (B)”. Harvard Business School Case N2-318-077, 2018.