Liu Ruihua

　　Liu Ruihua (1891-1963), graduated from Tianjin Beiyang Medical School in 1915 and joined Shanghai Harvard Medical College the same year. He was China’s first otolaryngologist and obtained his doctorate in the US. He was the one who performed China’s earliest mastoid operation in 1920 and surgical removal of foreign bodies from trachea and esophagus under bronchoscope in 1928. He also contributed in the cultivation of otolaryngological professionals thereafter.

　　He was elected as the honorary chairman of Chinese Society of Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) of Chinese Medical Association upon its establishment in 1952, He was the first editor-in-chief of Chinese Journal of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in 1953. He was the director of the Research Office of Beijing Hospital of Otolaryngology which was later developed into Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology. He was the first director of Beijing Institute of Otolaryngology, in charge from 1958 to 1963.