Infectious Diseases Department

As a national base for the prevention and control of major infectious diseases, China-Japan Friendship Hospital has established the Department of Infectious Diseases as a comprehensive key clinical department integrating the diagnosis and treatment of liver diseases and infectious diseases, as well as the screening and diagnosis and treatment of fever and intestinal diseases. It is a department designated for the development of a National Clinical Key Specialty in Infectious Diseases. In the 2023 Chinese Hospital Science and Technology Evaluation (STEM) ranking, our hospital’s infectious diseases discipline ranked 12th nationwide. The overall level of diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases and liver diseases remains among the best in China and at the forefront of the field.

I. Specialty Team and Academic Platforms

The department has a well-structured and highly capable professional team. The department head is Deputy Director Yang Song (presiding over the work). The current physician team consists of 12 members, including 1 chief physician, 5 deputy chief physicians, 5 attending physicians, and 1 resident physician; the department also has 1 full-time journal editor. The team has a high overall educational level and outstanding research and clinical capabilities, including 11 doctors with doctoral degrees and 1 graduate student supervisor, forming a highly educated, highly skilled, and young professional medical team.

The department has a strong academic influence. It publishes the Chinese Journal of Liver Diseases (Electronic Edition) and serves as the department leading the editor-in-chief’s work. It is also the leading institution of the Alcohol and Health Professional Committee of the Beijing Society of Integrative Medicine.

II. Featured Diagnosis and Treatment: Liver Diseases

The department specializes in systematic, individualized, and precise diagnosis and treatment of various liver diseases. For patients with liver diseases of different etiologies and stages, it develops customized, standardized diagnosis and treatment plans covering the entire course of care. Its scope of diagnosis and treatment covers the full spectrum of hepatobiliary diseases, including fatty liver disease, alcoholic liver disease, autoimmune liver diseases, drug-induced liver injury, hereditary and metabolic liver diseases, cirrhosis, liver failure, liver cancer prevention and comprehensive treatment, and clinical cure of chronic hepatitis B.

Several of the department’s specialized technologies are at the leading domestic level. Multidisciplinary refined management of alcoholic liver disease and intestinal microbiota intervention therapy for liver diseases are the department’s core strengths. The department has accumulated extensive mature experience in individualized, precise treatment of difficult autoimmune cholangiopathies, such as primary biliary cholangitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis, with excellent diagnostic and treatment outcomes.

The department has an independent liver biopsy and liver pathology diagnostic team. Under the guidance of Professor Wang Tailin, a leading authority and eminent expert in liver pathology in China, it provides clinical and pathological consultations nationwide for various difficult and critical liver diseases, offering authoritative support for the precise diagnosis of complex liver diseases.

III. Featured Diagnosis and Treatment: Infectious Diseases

The department undertakes a large volume of consultations for fever and infectious diseases throughout the year and diagnoses and treats tens of thousands of patients with fever annually. The team specializes in etiological screening for long-term fever of unknown origin and can precisely diagnose and treat systemic, multisystem infectious diseases caused by various pathogens, including bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites.

Relying on the hospital’s domestically leading clinical microbiology laboratory and multidisciplinary collaborative diagnosis and treatment platform, the department provides precise screening, rapid diagnosis, and standardized treatment of infectious diseases. It has outstanding comprehensive capabilities in the diagnosis and treatment of difficult, complex, and severe infections, and its overall level remains among the best in China.

IV. Diagnostic and Treatment Technologies and Multidisciplinary Collaboration System

The department offers comprehensive diagnostic and treatment technologies and is fully equipped. It routinely performs a range of core diagnostic and treatment procedures, including noninvasive testing for liver fibrosis, liver ultrasound screening, liver biopsy and pathological examination, percutaneous drainage of liver abscesses, sclerotherapy for liver cysts, and gastroscopy.

The department also collaborates extensively with the hospital’s departments of hepatobiliary surgery, interventional ultrasound, and vascular surgery, among other leading specialties, to establish a complete diagnostic and treatment system covering the entire course of liver cancer management. It can routinely and expertly perform various advanced diagnostic and treatment procedures, including liver cancer ablation, surgical resection, TACE, TIPS, liver transplantation, and targeted therapy and comprehensive immunotherapy for advanced liver cancer, providing patients with high-quality, one-stop, full-process, individualized medical services.

V. Research, Education, and Industry Empowerment

The department promotes the coordinated development of medical care, education, and research and has strong research capabilities. In recent years, it has undertaken more than 30 research projects at various levels, including major projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology and projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. It has published more than 100 high-level academic papers in internationally renowned SCI journals, including Cell Metabolism and PNAS, as well as leading Chinese academic journals.

In education, the department undertakes undergraduate teaching for the five-year and eight-year programs of Peking University Health Science Center and for Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. It is responsible for standardized residency training within the hospital and the training of physicians undertaking further study in infectious diseases. It also regularly provides remote consultations and online medical education, continuously strengthening primary healthcare and contributing to the overall improvement of infectious disease and liver disease diagnosis and treatment nationwide.

VI. Honors and Awards

Members of the medical and nursing team have received numerous prestigious national and municipal honors, including Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, National March 8th Red-Banner Pacesetter, and the Beijing Youth May Fourth Medal. These honors fully demonstrate the department’s solid professional capabilities and excellent professional conduct.

VII. Department Location and Consultation Telephone Numbers

Department address: The Infectious Diseases Outpatient Clinic and Infectious Diseases Ward are located at South Gate No. 9 of China-Japan Friendship Hospital; the Liver Diseases Ward is located on the first floor of Building L, the inpatient building.

Consultation telephone numbers:

Outpatient clinic: 010-84205955

Infectious Diseases Ward: 010-84205911

Infectious Diseases Ward Nurses’ Station: 010-84205956