Neurology

The Department of Neurology of China-Japan Friendship Hospital was established at the very beginning of the hospital's founding in October 1984. The former head of the department, Professor Wang Guoxiang, a renowned neurologist, won the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award and the First Prize of the Ministry of Health Science and Technology Progress Award, and made outstanding contributions to the development of the field of diagnosis of hereditary cerebellar ataxia in China. The current director of the Department of Neurology is Professor Peng Dantao; the deputy directors of the department are Professor Liu Zunjing and Director Wang Renbin; the head nurse is Xu Yan. The department has 4 chief physicians, 10 associate chief physicians, 18 attending physicians, 3 resident physicians, 1 associate researcher, 16 technicians and 16 nurses. Among them, 28 have doctoral degrees, 5 have master's degrees and 2 have bachelor's degrees. After many years of effort, the Department of Neurology of China-Japan Friendship Hospital rose from 96th place in 2015 to 65th place in 2020 in the STEM (Science and Technology Evaluation Metrics) ranking of Chinese hospitals.

Outpatient and inpatient setup: There are 9 neurology outpatient consultation rooms in total, and 90 inpatient beds. There are 10 neurology function examination rooms and 1 neurology laboratory.

Introduction to diagnostic and therapeutic equipment: The department owns advanced equipment such as transcranial and peripheral vascular Doppler diagnostic and monitoring systems, electromyography-evoked potential instruments, and video EEG systems.

Clinical features of the department: The department carries out clinical psychological assessment, transcranial magnetic stimulation, cognitive rehabilitation, and research on genes, imaging, molecular biology, gut microbiota and clinical drugs for Alzheimer's disease (senile dementia), as well as a green channel for stroke thrombolysis and thrombectomy, botulinum toxin treatment, neuroelectrophysiology, neuropathology and other projects. It possesses a very high diagnostic and treatment level and professional characteristics in Alzheimer's disease, stroke, neuromuscular disorders, Parkinson's disease, neuroimmune diseases, neurogenetic diseases and sleep disorders. Its clinical diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease is at the national forefront.

Existing special disease clinics: The department has opened a memory decline clinic, a cerebrovascular disease clinic, a movement disorder clinic, a Parkinson's disease clinic, a neuromuscular clinic, a neuroimmune disease clinic, a neuro-visual impairment clinic and an epilepsy clinic.

Research achievements: The department undertakes key clinical discipline projects of hospitals affiliated to (administered by) the National Health and Family Planning Commission, and has led and participated in a number of research projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education and provincial/bureau levels, the National Natural Science Foundation, the Beijing Natural Science Foundation and the Capital Medical Development Fund. It has led 3 national guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of cognitive impairment and led 3 national clinical studies of anti-dementia drugs. It has formulated 1 national and health industry standard. It has published a large number of medical papers in influential journals at home and abroad, including more than 100 SCI-indexed papers, several of which were published in international neurology journals such as Annals of Neurology, Neurology, JAMA Neurology and The Journal of Neuroscience.

Teaching: The department undertakes doctoral and master's student training and teaching tasks for Peking University Health Science Center, Peking Union Medical College, Capital Medical University and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. As a resident physician training base, it undertakes the task of training neurology resident physicians in Beijing.

Honors received by the department: It has won the First Prize of the Ministry of Health Science and Technology Progress Award, the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the First Prize of the China Association of Chinese Medicine, the First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the China Geriatric Health Care Medical Research Association and many other awards, as well as the Excellent Teaching and Research Section Award of China-Japan Friendship Hospital.

Location in the hospital: The department's outpatient clinic is located on the west side of the 2nd floor of the B East Outpatient Building; the inpatient ward is located on the west of the 10th floor of Building A; the North District ward is located in Building A of the North District.

Department telephone: Outpatient: 010-84205259; Ward: 010-84205037; Nurses' station: 010-84205034