Prof. DAI Rui-hong was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province in 1930. He attended the medical school of St. John University, Shanghai, in 1949, and obtained the medical degree at Shanghai’s Second Medical College in 1955. Since then he has been devoted to, in Huashan Hospital, clinical, teaching as well as research duties in the field of cardiovascular disease, particularly in coronary heart disease (CHD) and myocardial infarction. Prof. DAI has devoted to the integrative traditional Chinese and Western medicinal treatment on CHD and the clinical pharmacology of cardiovascular disease for over 50 years. Prof. DAI assumed the director of Dept. of cardiology of Huashan Hospital in 1960, and has been the chief of Dept. of internal medicine; director of the teaching and research Dept. of internal medicine; tutor of doctoral students; member of the council of the professional committee of cardiovascular diseases, Shanghai Branch of Chinese Medical Association; member of the Expert Committee of Shanghai Medical University, director of the Lab of Biochemistry and Clinic of the National Engineering Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, and vice-president of Huashan Hospital. In addition, he was a member of editorial board of Foreign Medical Sciences (Section of Cardiovascular Disease) and Progress in Cardiovascular Disease. Prof. DAI was chosen as the Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (F.A.C.C.) in 1992 and has been listed in “Who’s Who” by the American Biographical Institute and the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge University. He is now an emeritus professor of Huashan Hospital of Fudan University and honorary chairman of the speciality Committee of Cardiovascular Disease of the Chinese Association of the Integration of Traditional and Western Medicine (CAIM). Prof. DAI Rui-hong was born in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province in 1930. He attended the medical school of St. John University, Shanghai, in 1949, and obtained the medical degree at Shanghai’s Second Medical College in 1955. Since then he has been devoted to, in Huashan Hospital, clinical, teaching as well as research tasks in the field of cardiovascular disease, particularly in coronary heart disease (CHD) and myocardial infarction. Prof. DAI has devoted to the integrative traditional Chinese and Western medicinal treatment on CHD and the clinical pharmacology of cardiovascular disease for over 50 years. Prof. DAI assumed the director of Dept. of cardiology of Huashan Hospital in 1960, and has been the chief of Dept. of internal medicine; director of the teaching and research Dept. of internal medicine; tutor of doctoral students; member of the council of the professional committee of cardiovascular diseases, Shanghai Branch of Chinese Medical Association; member of the Expert Committee of Shanghai Medical University, director of the Lab of Biochemistry and Clinic of the National Engineering Research Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine, and vice-president of Huashan Hospital. In addition, he was a member of editorial board of Foreign Medical Sciences (Section of Cardiovascular Disease. And Progress in Cardiovascular Disease. Prof. DAI was chosen as the Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) in 1992 and has been listed in “Who’s Who” by the American Biographical Institute and the International Biographical Center of Cambridge University. He is now an emeritus professor of Huashan Hospital of Fudan University and honorary chairman of the specialty Committee of Cardiovascular Disease of the Chinese Association of the Integration of Traditional and Western Medicine (CAIM).