Yue Wang is a professor, chief physician, doctoral supervisor of orthopedics, and deputy director of the Department of Orthopedics of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine. He graduated from Xiangya Medical College of Central South University with a master's degree in 2001, and was awarded the China–Canada Norman-Baikouin Health Research Scholarship by the National Scholarship Council in 2008 to study at University of Alberta, Canada, and received his doctorate in rehabilitation medicine in 2012. He specializes in spinal surgery, specializing in the treatment of complex spinal disorders and spinal deformities. He specializes in the epidemiology, imaging and pathology of degenerative spine disorders and has studied in many countries. In June 2012, he was awarded the ISSLS Award, the highest international academic honor in spine research, for his outstanding research on endplates, becoming the first recipient from mainland China in more than 30 years of ISSLS awards.