Gary Zhou （周星光）, MD, class 83, was elected to the Board of Trustees, the Yale-China Association in June 2015.  Dr. Zhou currently serves as the Executive Vice President of Xiangya Overseas Alumni Association (XYOAA) and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of XYOAA since 2012.
 
Dr. Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine; Medical Director, Chief of Anesthesia and Chair of the Medical Advisory Board at Yale-New Haven Hospital Temple Medical Center (2008 to 2015).  He received his education from Xiangya School of Medicine and afterward studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Shanghai Medical College.  In 1989 he came to the US and became a research fellow at the Medical University of South Carolina.  He completed his residency training at Yale in 1999 and, over the next eight years, worked in private practice in Rhode Island and in Connecticut.  From 2004 until joining the Yale faculty in 2008, he served as the Chairman and Chief of Anesthesia, as well as Co-chair of the Surgical Care Improvement Project, at the MidState Medical Center in Connecticut.  Dr. Zhou is a Board-certified anesthesiologist and an expert on ambulatory anesthesia.  He has led many patient safety initiatives in both academic and private settings, and has been advocating ambulatory surgery and anesthesia in China for many years.
 
XYOAA congratulates on Dr. Zhou’s achievements!