Yuping Ran
Yuping Ran, Professor, Department of Dermatology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, completed the course in Medical Mycology at the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Netherlands (2006). He is an International Union of Microbiological Societies fellow, an International Emerging Infectious Diseases fellow, and Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention fellow, in Atlanta, USA. He holds a diploma in Dermatology from the Japanese Society for Investigative Dermatology and a Ph.D. from Juntendo University, Japan. He is the chair of the Sichuan Medical Association Dermatology Committee and was a general secretary of the 19th Annual Meeting of the Chinese Society of Dermatology and the Asia Pacific Society for Medical Mycology (2013). He is in charge of the Annual Medical Mycology Course for over 20 years authorized by the National Continued Medical Education Committee of China. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Asia-Pacific Society for Medical Mycology, associate editor of Mycopathologia, vice-chief of the editorial board of the Chinese Journal of Mycology, and a Board Member and Chair of Mycology Group of Chinese Society of Dermatology.