Dr. Yu Li is Acting Head and Deputy Director of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Shanghai Tongji Hospital. She is a Chief Physician and Professor with 30 years of experience in respiratory medicine. She specializes in chronic cough, asthma (including severe asthma), and COPD. She provides cause-based diagnosis, precision treatment, biologic assessment, and care for complex and critical cases.
She leads research in cough and asthma as principal investigator on more than 10 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission. She has published over 60 SCI papers, including in Respirology and Lung. She co-drafted China’s cough guideline, the primary care cough guideline, and the consensus on refractory chronic cough. She serves as Secretary of the China Cough Alliance and as Deputy Head of the Shanghai COPD Group. She is a reviewer for The Clinical Respiratory Journal. She was a Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University in 2013–2014. She received her M.D. from Tongji University.
Her honors include Outstanding Respiratory Physician of Shanghai. She received the Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award, Third Prize, in 2015 as the third contributor. She was named one of the “Top Ten Physicians” of Shanghai Tongji Hospital in 2026. She was also recognized as an Outstanding Young Respiratory Physician of Shanghai.