Gu Zhishan, male, a doctor, was selected as an "outstanding" TCM talent by Anhui provincial government, and taught in Anhui College of Traditional Chinese Medicine on 1979. He is currently a professor at Anhui College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a member of the Standing Committee of the Medical History Literature Branch of the Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine, an expert in the research group of the National 973 Project "Research on the Framework Structure and Connotation of Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory System", an academic member of China Difficult Diseases Research Association and an academic member of China modern traditional chinese medicine Magazine. He used to be the head of state administration of traditional chinese medicine's special project "Study on Predicting Epidemic Diseases by Using the Theory of Five Movements and Six Qi", the consultant in the field of population health of the National Technology Foresight Research Group of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the academic editorial board of Chinese Materia Medica in state administration of traditional chinese medicine, and the editor-in-chief of the national textbook of Chinese Medicine Philology. He was hired as a professor at the Canadian Institute of International Health Medicine and a visiting professor at the North American Acupuncture Examination Institute.