Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery

1. Discipline overview

The Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery originated from the hepatobiliary surgery specialty of the general surgery department at the time the hospital was founded. Under the leadership of the highly respected senior experts and professors Cui Zijie, Yang Jinyong, Zhang Modao and others, it grew continuously; in 2000 it formed the Hepatobiliary and Vascular Surgery Department together with the vascular surgery specialty; in 2006 it became independent as the Hepatobiliary Surgery Department; and in 2013, with the establishment of the biliary surgery department at the West Coast campus, it was renamed the Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery Department. Through the efforts of several generations, the overall level of the discipline has now reached the advanced domestic level; it is a Shandong Provincial Clinical Key Specialty, the medical, teaching and research center for hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery in eastern Shandong Province, and a national continuing medical education base. In 1986 it became a master's degree authorization point, and in 2010, with the granting of the hospital's first-level discipline doctoral program in clinical medicine, it became a doctoral degree authorization point. It was rated as one of the hospital's Top Ten Departments for 2003 and Top Ten Departments for 2001-2005, and was designated a Grade A department in the hospital-wide discipline assessment; the department's nursing unit is a highly energetic and extremely rigorous and conscientious team, is the unit of the vice-chairman of the Surgical Nursing Branch of the Shandong Nursing Association, and was awarded the Model Ward for Quality Nursing by the Ministry of Health in 2010. In 2012 it was rated as the hospital's Model Department, and in 2013 as the hospital's Department with the Greatest Growth Potential. In 2007 it obtained the first batch of organ transplantation access qualification from the Ministry of Health, and in 2011 it obtained the Ministry of Health's pancreatic transplantation access qualification.

With the rapid development of the hospital, the department has established close collaborative relations with related departments at home and abroad. It advocates inviting experts in and going out, laying a good foundation for patients to obtain high-level diagnosis and treatment and for the development of the discipline, and has achieved countless remarkable achievements and significant social benefits.

2. Talent echelon

The Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery has now developed into a high-level medical, teaching and research group led by doctoral and master's supervisors and with a large number of high-quality young and middle-aged backbone technical talents as its core, with complete professional coverage. At present the discipline has 26 full-time physicians, of whom 14 hold doctoral degrees and 12 hold master's degrees, with the proportion of doctoral degree holders reaching 53.8%; there are 7 with senior professional titles and 5 with associate senior professional titles, and personnel with senior titles account for 46.2% of the total. There are 8 supervisors of master's and doctoral students.

For many years the department has maintained an attitude of learning and relearning, and has repeatedly sent department personnel to the PLA 301 Hospital, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Yonsei University in South Korea, the Myo Clinic in the United States and other places for further training, with remarkable results.

3. Medical technology

The department vigorously promotes the team spirit and has strong departmental cohesion. At present the department has formed several distinctive sub-specialties, including hepatic surgery, biliary surgery, pancreatic surgery and retroperitoneal tumor surgery, and has always grasped advanced concepts and technologies at home and abroad, continuously absorbing and introducing new technologies and new projects. At this stage, under the leadership of the expert team headed by Director Zhang Bingyuan, it has fully carried out various minimally invasive hepatobiliary and pancreatic procedures including laparoscopic surgery for liver, biliary, pancreatic and retroperitoneal tumors, among which the various procedures of the Da Vinci robot approach one hundred cases, ensuring the continuous improvement of the department's comprehensive level.

All medical and nursing staff of the Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery will, with full enthusiasm, serve patients in the Jiaodong Peninsula and throughout the country, and contribute to the development of hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery in China.

4. Guide to visiting

(1) Department location

Outpatient clinic: 6th floor of the outpatient building of the Shinan campus, 2nd floor of the outpatient building of the West Coast campus

Wards: 4th floor of the Second Inpatient Department of the Shinan campus, 17th floor of Building A of the ward building of the West Coast campus

(2) Consultation telephone

Shinan campus: 82911323 West Coast campus: 82919552