Ye Qifa studied at Tongji Medical College (now Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology) 1972 to 1975. 1975 to 1989 working in tongji hospital; 1989 12 went to the university of heidelberg in west Germany to study transplant surgery and obtained a doctorate; 1996 was hired as a professor, chief physician, doctoral tutor and postdoctoral tutor; In September, 2002, he was hired as a Lotus Scholar in Hunan Province, as the vice president of Xiangya Third Hospital of Central South University, the executive vice president of transplantation medicine Research Institute, and the director of transplantation medicine Engineering Technology Research Center of the Ministry of Health.

He is also a member of the Standing Committee of Transplantation Branch of Chinese Surgical Society, an expert of liver transplantation group of Chinese Surgical Society, deputy director of Transplantation Branch of Hunan Medical Association, deputy director of Hunan Hepatology Society, director of Hunan Organ Transplantation Quality Control Center, and deputy director of Clinical Application Committee of Human Organ Transplantation Technology in Hunan Province.