Dr. Shixing Feng is currently a Research Fellow and Executive Vice President of the International Academy of Food and Phytomedicine (IAFPH). As a young scholar active at the forefront of international integrative medicine, epidemiology, and interdisciplinary science, he also serves as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Henan International Communication Research Center for Agricultural Culture and Landscape, and a Visiting Researcher at the Center for Research on Energy and Climate Change (CRECC), Paris School of Business (PSB). Dr. Feng graduated from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine with a doctoral degree in Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and subsequently conducted postdoctoral research at the School of Chinese Materia Medica, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. During this period, he undertook a two-year high-level visiting scholar program at the Université de Toulouse in France. He has received systematic and rigorous undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral training in traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture, moxibustion, and tuina, and has accumulated extensive frontline clinical experience in several leading clinical medical centers in France and Beijing.
As a scientist with outstanding strategic vision in geriatrics and interdisciplinary modeling, Dr. Feng’s research focuses on three core areas: epidemiological and mechanistic studies of geriatric diseases, sarcopenia, dementia, and depression; clinical translation of distinctive therapies in traditional Chinese medicine; and the application of interdisciplinary computational modeling methods in the fields of environment, agriculture, and climate change. His research transcends conventional disciplinary boundaries in traditional medicine, covering frontier scientific questions ranging from the upstream biological mechanisms of acupuncture intervention in neuropsychiatric comorbidities to the construction of deep learning-based predictive models for climate change and agricultural and forestry transitions.
With many years of dedication to interdisciplinary research, Dr. Feng has achieved substantial accomplishments in high-level international academic publication. As first author or corresponding author, including co-first and co-corresponding authorship, he has published multiple high-impact papers in leading international journals such as Ageing Research Reviews, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Frontiers in Public Health, and Frontiers in Pharmacology. His landmark study on the global burden of early-onset dementia was published in a CAS Q1 Top journal with an impact factor of 15.5, attracting wide academic attention in the international field of geriatric medicine. In addition, Dr. Feng is highly active in academic community building. He currently serves as a Council Member of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, as well as a council member of several international professional committees, including the International Health Tourism Professional Committee and the Chinese Medicine Dispensing Professional Committee. He has long been at the scientific forefront of promoting the international dissemination, multidisciplinary integration, and global clinical application of traditional Chinese medicine.