Dr. Wang has engaged in surgery and burn medicine for 61 years. He is one of the first generation of burn doctor in China, who treated burn patients more than ten thousands and went to dozens of cities and areas to rescue the wounded near hundred batches. He made contribution to the establishment of Chinese special scheme for treating burn patients. He established the institute lab of metabolism and nutrition in 1985, and treated burn patients and carried out research of burn metabolism and nutrition simultaneously. He developed new theory that other routes like internal organs especially intestine besides burn wound can induce hypermetabolism i. e." enterogenous hypermetabolism" . If gut works, early feeding (EF) and enteral nutrition (EN) are better than delayed feeding and parenteral nutrition, and EN or EF can promote gastrointestinal resuscitation, reduce intestine injury, modulate hypothalamus and pituitary function, and decrease hypermetabolism. At the end of the 1980s, by measuring the resting energy expenditure of 105 adult burn patients and normal adults, they worked out the first formula for calories supply in Chinese burn adults. He published 340 papers, while 50 papers were exchanged in international meeting, and published 53 monographs (as editor or associate editor in chief for 9 books).
Metabolism and Nutrition in Burns is the 1st burn metabolism and nutrition book in China. We got 24 awards of nation, army, and provincial and ministerial level in science, technology, medicine, and education, and there were two awards of " National 2nd Science and Technology Award" (respectively the 1st and 2nd author). He was the chairman of Burn Institute of Southwest Hospital during 1988-1999, and the institute was appraised as " Model Unit of Grass-roots in General Logistics Department" and awarded the 1st and the 2nd collective merits during that time. He was the vice president of Chinese Burn Association and chief editor of
Chinese Journal of Burns.