Dr. Liu, chief physician, professor, doctoral supervisor, postdoctoral supervisor, appointed professor of Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, among the first group of TCM disciples of Dr. Liu Zhiming, and the instructor for the 4th and 5th classes of TCM practitioners graduated under the "Double Hundred Projects" of TCM knowledge inheritance and transfer work in Beijing. 

Study and Work Experience:

Being the first daughter of Dr. Liu Zhiming with first hand TCM knowledge, influenced by her father’s idealism of “upholding medical ethics, serving the public“, Dr. Liu followed her father’s footstep to pursue in Traditional Chinese Medicine. She was admitted into Hunan Medical University with excellent grades. Soon after graduation, she started working at Xiangya hospital’s internal medicine, cardiology departments which lasted for longer than ten years. She had solid foundations of Western medicine combined with wealth of clinical experiences. She was known to have unconventional and unorthodox insights in her treatment for cardiovascular diseases. In 1991, in response to the call from the Ministry of Human Resources, the Ministry of Health,  and National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s objective for transferring the wealth knowledge of famous but ailing TCM doctors, Dr. Liu was recruited to study in China Academy of TCM at Guang 'anmen Hospital, under the instruction of her father, Dr. Liu Zhiming. She continued to work in Guang 'anmen Hospital in the present days. She devoted her life to the knowledge and clinical experience transfer of Dr. Liu Zhiming and further advanced innovation in the TCM fields.

Specialties:

Dr. Liu specialized in the treatment of all types of arrhythmias, coronary heart disease, hypertension, heart failure, cerebrovascular disease, sub-health and other major intractable diseases of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular medicine, using integrated treatments combining both Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine. Her treatments, especially in arrhythmias, had distinctive results. Her treatments for ventricular, Bradyarrhythmia, atrial fibrillation, tachy-slow arrhythmia in the clinical settings also received outstanding results. In addition, she invented a prescription formula for promoting Yang and activating blood (to strengthening heart and to reinvigorating the arteries) for treatment of coronary heart diseases involving refractory angina pectoris, which would benefit many patients. The formula had obtained approval for clinical trial. Her formula would reduce the symptoms for angina pectoris patients, decreasing the amount of nitroglycerin needed, stabilizing the heart rhythms, narrowing or even eliminating arterial plaque, coronary stenosis and stent, and possibly bypassing surgery restenosis. 

Scientific Research:

Over the years, Dr. Liu has devoted herself to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases with integrated Chinese and Western medicine. She was one of the first to undertake a national science and technology grant project named "11th five-year plan", three national natural science foundation projects, five state administration of TCM scientific research related topics, two Beijing natural science fund projects, and other national and provincial projects, a total of eighteen projects. She published more than 140 scientific papers both in national and internal journals, six included in SCI, and authored four books. She had two TCM invention patents and won five science and technology awards from Beijing Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. She was awarded the first prize of National Academic Experience Inheritance Work Paper for TCM Experts and the Doctor Award for Outstanding Contribution to World Traditional Medicine. The master's and doctoral dissertations from students under her supervision have won 5 Excellent Dissertation Awards of China Academy of TCM Sciences. Two master's students and one doctoral student under her supervision won the national scholarships, among which one master's student and one doctoral student were rated as outstanding graduates. The outbound postdoctoral thesis she supervised won first-class prize of national excellent postdoctoral thesis. She was awarded "Yifang" title as an excellent mentor. She trained more than 40 postdoctoral, master and doctoral students and apprentices.

刘如秀，女，首都名中医，主任医师，教授，博士生导师，博士后指导老师，北京中医药大学聘任教授、西南大学聘任教授。国医大师刘志明首批学术继承人，北京市第四、五批、六批名老中医学术经验继承工作指导老师。

专业特长：

擅长中西医结合治疗各类心律失常、冠心病、高血压、心力衰竭、亚健康等心脑血管及内科重大疑难病症。治疗心律失常有独特疗效，对室性心律失常、房颤、快-慢心律失常等疾病，临床疗效突出，并研究发明了中医药治疗缓慢性心律失常、病态窦房结综合征的通阳活血方，临床疗效显着，Hotler 证实，明显提高患者24小时总心率，有效率83%，能改善患者心功能，延缓起搏器安装和减少起搏器的更换，亦能改善患者焦虑及抑郁，提高患者生存质量；研究发明了用于治疗冠心病顽固性心绞痛的有效中药滋肾活血方（冠心爽合剂），可明显缓解病人心绞痛症状，减少硝酸甘油用量，稳定、缩小甚至消除动脉斑块，对冠脉狭窄及支架、搭桥术后再狭窄等有很好的防治作用。

学习工作经历：

“国医大师”刘志明长女，出身中医世家，幼承庭训，继承家学，深受其父“大医精诚，服务百姓”思想的影响，以优异成绩考入湖南医科大学医疗系，毕业后留素有“南湘雅”“北协和”之美誉之称的湘雅医院大内科、心内科工作14年余，经过系统严格的住院医师、总住院医师规范化培训，奠定了深厚的西医功底，1991年响应国家人事部、劳动部、卫生部和国家中医药管理局抢救全国名老中医学术经验的政策，应招至中国中医科学院广安门医院学习，成为全国首批师从国医大师刘志明，以优异成绩师承毕业后留广安门医院工作至今，己从事临床一线工作近50年，有丰富的抢救危重病人、救治疑难病的临床经验，临床上也一直致力于国医大师刘志明学术思想及临床经验的传承、创新研究，临床善于用中西结合方法，从心肾、气血，调治心、脑血管疾病及失眠、抑郁、眩晕、浮肿、等各种疑难病症。

科研情况：

多年来致力于心血管疾病中西医结合防治研究，以第一负责人承担“十一五”国家科技支撑计划项目 1 项、国家自然科学基金项目 3 项、国家中医药管理局相关科研课题 5 项、北京市自然科学基金项目 2 项、北京市科技计划“首都特色”重点项目 1 项等国家和省部级课题共 18 项；发表国内、国际论文200余篇，主编专着 4 部；参编专着多部，发明专利2项

获奖情况：

以第一完成人获得北京市、中华中医药学会及中国中医科学院科学技术奖共 5 项；获得全国老中医药专家学术经验继承工作论文一等奖、世界传统医学突出贡献医生奖；指导的硕、博士研究生学位论文获中国中医科学院优秀学位论文奖5项；指导的多名硕士生和名博士生获得国家奖学金及优秀毕业生；指导的1名博士生获中国中医科学院博士研究生创新人才培养基金；及博士后出站论文优秀论文一等奖。也多次被评为优秀和“一方”优秀研究生导师。先后培养博士后、硕博士研究生及师承徒弟共数十名余名。

社会兼职：

现任世界中医药联合会老年医学专业委员会副会长，中国中西医结合学会心血管专业委员会委员、肿瘤心脏病学组特聘专家，中华中医药学会心血管专业委员会委员，北京中医疑难病研究会专家技术委员会主任委员，American Physiology Society 会员等。