Dr Guo-Wei Li received his Bachelor and Master degree from Peking University (China), PhD and Post-doc training from McMaster University (Canada). He was recognized as a Young Top-Notch Talent under the Guangdong Special Support Program, and listed among the world's top 2% of scientists for five consecutive years (2021–2025). Dr Li is the Director of the Clinical Epidemiology and Methodology Center at the Affiliated Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital of Jinan University (China) and Scientist at Father Sean O’Sullivan Research Centre, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton (Canada). He serves as a specially appointed expert for the NMPA Key Laboratory for Real-World Data (Hainan), committee member of the Nutrition Epidemiology Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society, and a council member of the Specialty Committee of Clinical Efficacy Evaluation of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, among other roles. Dr Li's primary research interests focus on clinical epidemiology and methodology, as well as nutritional and clinical research regarding cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and endocrine diseases. He has authored over 120 peer-reviewed papers as the first or corresponding author, with more than 6,000 citations and an H-index of 37. Among them, five papers were listed as ESI highly cited papers. His key papers were published in Diabetes Care, PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America), JACC (The Journal of the American College of Cardiology), Diabetologia, BMC Medicine, Nature Cardiovascular Research, European Respiratory Journal and Cardiovascular Diabetology. He is the editor-in-chief for a Chinese-language monograph, and contributed several chapters in textbooks (published by Springer Nature). He is an associate editor or editorial board member for multiple academic journals, including BMC Pilot and Feasibility Studies, Nutrients, and Frontiers in Endocrinology, among others. He has led seven national-level research projects, and received over ten academic awards. He was invited to attend and present at over 50 academic conferences both domestically and internationally.