Prof. Xiao Bo is a distinguished pediatric neurosurgeon with board certifications in both China and Israel. He currently holds the position of Chief at the SDR Surgery Center at Shanghai Children's Medical Center in Shanghai, China, and serves as a Visiting Professor at the Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy (SDR) Center at Dana-Dwek Children's Hospital, Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel.

 

In 2020, Prof. Xiao Bo was appointed as a Professor of Neurological Surgery at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He also holds various leadership roles in professional organizations, such as Vice Director of the Surgical Management Program in the Pediatric Rehabilitation Committee of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine (CARM), Executive Board Member of the Chinese Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (CSPN), the Chinese Congress for Pediatric Neurosurgeons (CCPN), and the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN). Additionally, he is a member of the SDR Scientific Board of the International Alliance of Academies of Childhood Disability (IAACD). In 2022, he was invited to join the Advisory Expert Committee of the China-Israel Innovation Cooperation Strategic Research Center.

 

Prof. Xiao Bo completed a full-time pediatric neurosurgery fellowship under the mentorship of Professor Shlomi Constantini at Dana-Dwek Children's Hospital in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2012, he earned his Ph.D. in Neuroelectrophysiology from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. After returning to Shanghai in 2013, he specialized in surgical treatments for a wide range of pediatric neurosurgical disorders, with a particular focus on spastic cerebral palsy. In 2018, he developed a standardized intraoperative EMG interpretation scheme to guide SDR quantitatively. This method has since been utilized in nearly 700 SDR procedures, yielding exceptional results.

 

Under Prof. Xiao Bo's leadership, his team has amassed over 1 million pairs of input-output intraoperative evoked-CMAP (compound muscle action potential) data from lower spinal cords in patients with spastic cerebral palsy. This has led to the creation of the world's first human spinal nerve evoked-CMAP database. The database offers new opportunities for optimizing SDR protocols, enhancing surgical treatment outcomes, and deepening our understanding of spinal cord networks in individuals with spastic cerebral palsy.

 

In 2019, the Israeli Ministry of Health approved the clinical use of Prof. Xiao's surgical technique. Subsequently, an Israeli SDR surgical team led by him launched an online consultation page in English and Russian on Facebook, significantly streamlining online consultations and surgical arrangements for international patients. Before the pandemic, Prof. Xiao performed SDR surgeries in Israel three times a year. In 2021, he was invited to share an SDR operation video in the International Neurosurgery Research Online Library. In 2020 and 2022, his team hosted two successful sessions of the "The Belt and Road Initiative" international training program, the Shanghai SDR Master Class, which attracted over 500 experts from neurosurgery, neuroelectrophysiology, and rehabilitation therapy worldwide.

 

In 2017, Prof. Xiao Bo established a charitable program at the Shanghai Soong Ching Ling Foundation to sponsor SDR surgeries and post-operative rehabilitation therapies for more than 100 children diagnosed with spastic cerebral palsy.