Cao Yilin, professor, party member, chief physician, doctoral supervisor, national model worker and Shanghai model worker. /kloc-0 was born in Shanghai in may, 1954;/kloc-0 graduated from plastic surgery of Shanghai second medical university; 1988 obtained a master's degree. In the same year, he received his doctorate and studied under Professor Zhang, a veteran of plastic surgery in China and an academician of China Academy of Engineering. 199 1 won one of two grants from the American Plastic Surgery Foundation with excellent results, and engaged in postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School, focusing on tissue engineering.