Deng Tietao (; 6 November 1916 – 10 January 2019) was a Chinese physician, a professor and doctoral advisor at

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. He was named a "Master of National Medicine" of China in 2009.

Biography

Deng was born in 1916 (on the 11th day of the 10th month of

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), in

Kaiping Kaiping (), postal map romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized in Cantonese as Hoiping, in local dialect as Hoihen, is a county-level city in Guangdong provinces of China, Province, China. It is located in the western secti ...

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

, China. His former name was Deng Xicai (). From 1932, he studied at Guangdong Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology School (now

). He began practicing medicine in 1938 and later became a professor at his alma mater. In 1962 and 1979, he was twice named by the Guangdong Provincial Government as a "famous TCM doctor of Guangdong". He was awarded an

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degree by the

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in 2001. In 2009, he was named a "Master of National Medicine" of China, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the China Society for Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology, and won the Guangdong Science and Technology Award (First Class). Starting in 1978, Deng trained 27 master's degree students, 15 doctoral students, and a postdoctoral researcher. After a career spanning more than 80 years, Deng died on 10 January 2019 in Guangzhou, at the age of 102 (104 in

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). In September 2019, he was posthumously conferred the National Outstanding Contribution in Chinese Medicine Award.

References

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