Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2005, Professor Dayi Hu is a distinguished Chinese cardiologist and medical educator whose career has contributed to the development of interventional cardiology, cardiac electrophysiology, and cardiovascular disease prevention in China. Born in July 1946 in Kaifeng, Henan Province, with ancestral roots in Neihuang, he received his M.D. from Beijing Medical College, now Peking University Health Science Center, in 1970. He subsequently developed his clinical career at the First Affiliated Hospital of Beijing Medical College, progressing from Resident Physician to Chief Physician. From 1985 to 1987, he undertook advanced training in cardiac electrophysiology and interventional cardiology at the State University of New York and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He later served as Associate Professor and Professor at the First Affiliated Hospital of Beijing Medical University and, from 1993 to 2000, as Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital, Capital Medical University. In 1999, he was appointed Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Director of the Department of Cardiology at Peking University People’s Hospital, where he established the Interventional Center and the Department of Cardiology. He concurrently served as Director of the Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis and Treatment Center at Beijing Tongren Hospital and Director of the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases at Capital Medical University. In 2003, he was appointed Dean of the School of Medicine at Tongji University, and in 2006 became Director of the Xiamen Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases.