廖清奎教授是我国著名的儿科营养学和血液学专家、华西医科大学博士生导师。他在国内有力地推动了全国铁营养缺乏症的防治工作,因此誉满杏林,被国内同行称之为“铁老板”。 对“铁老板”这个称谓,廖教授说:“受之有愧。但我深知自己这一生与儿科学结下了不解之缘。” 这缘分源于他高中毕业参加高考前的体检。在县医院接受高考体检时,他看到缺医少药、医疗技术落后的农村医疗机构无力解决父老乡亲们看病难、吃药难的困难。上初二时,他参加过农村社会主义教育工作组,也目睹了农村儿童普遍营养 Professor Liao Qingkui is a famous pediatric nutrition and hematology expert in China, a doctoral tutor at Huaxi Medical University. He effectively promoted the nationwide prevention and control of iron deficiency deficiency, so he was praised as “iron boss” by domestic counterparts. To the title of “iron boss”, Professor Liao said: “It is deserved, but I know I’ve lived a life of indissoluble bond with pediatrics.” This fate stems from the fact that he graduated from high school and took a physical examination before taking the college entrance examination. In the county hospital for medical examination, he saw the lack of medical treatment, medical and technical backward rural medical institutions unable to solve the difficulties of the elderly folks see a doctor difficult to take medicine. On the first two days, he participated in the rural socialist education group also witnessed the universal nutrition of rural children