Traditional Chinese Medicine Geriatric Outpatient Clinic

Department Name: Traditional Chinese Medicine Geriatric Disease Clinic

Department Development History: The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine Geriatric Diseases was established in 1984. In 2012, it was renamed the Department of Geriatric Medicine. In 2017, its inpatient department was renamed Health Care Department 4 and relocated to the North District. In 2021, the inpatient department was renamed Health Care Department 2. The main department retains the Traditional Chinese Medicine Geriatric Disease Clinic, where several TCM experts provide consultations.

Department Staffing: The person in charge of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Geriatric Disease Clinic is Associate Chief Physician Li Qiubing. The outpatient department has 3 chief physicians, 3 associate chief physicians, 4 attending physicians, and 3 retired experts re-employed as consultants. The department has 6 doctors with doctoral degrees, 3 with master's degrees, and 3 associate professors. Department head Li Qiubing also serves as: a committee member of the Sixth Committee of the Health Preservation and Rehabilitation Branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine; a standing committee member of the Geriatric Rehabilitation Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine; a standing committee member of the Ninth Professional Committee on Deficiency Syndromes and Geriatric Medicine of the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine; a standing committee member of the Geriatric Rehabilitation Special Committee of the Beijing Rehabilitation Medicine Association; a TCM apprenticeship instructor in Chaoyang District; a committee member of the TCM General Practice Subcommittee of the Beijing Standardized Training Committee for TCM Residents, Beijing Municipal Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine; a member of the Digestive Diseases and Nutrition Group of the Geriatrics Branch of the Beijing Medical Association; and a standing editorial board member of the Expert Editorial Committee of the Chinese Journal of Practical Medicine. Professor Huang Liuhua, a retired expert, is an instructor for the national program for inheriting the academic experience of senior TCM experts and a Capital National TCM Master. Zhang Tiezhong is an instructor for the national program for inheriting the academic experience of senior TCM experts, a Capital National TCM Master, and a mentor in the first group of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital program for inheriting the academic experience of senior TCM experts. Professor Li Haicong studied at the Center for Geriatric Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA, from February to May 2012 as a visiting scholar.

Outpatient Services: The department operates specialty clinics for sleep disorders, geriatric memory disorders, geriatric frailty, and male menopause.

Departmental Diagnostic and Treatment Characteristics:

The department specializes in the integrated prevention and treatment of geriatric diseases using traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

1. Diagnosis and treatment of geriatric memory disorders and dementia; integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of geriatric memory disorders.

2. Treatment of sleep disorders with traditional Chinese medicine.

3. Integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of geriatric depressive and anxiety disorders.

4. Management of geriatric frailty and its integrated prevention and treatment using traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

5. Integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of acute stroke in older adults.

6. Integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of geriatric cardiovascular diseases, such as geriatric coronary heart disease, hypertension and related diseases, acute and chronic cardiac insufficiency, and arrhythmias (atrial and ventricular).

7. Treatment of geriatric constipation exclusively with Chinese herbal medicines.

8. Integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of hypertension, diabetes mellitus and its complications, and hyperlipidemia.

9. Integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic cough.

Current Specialty Clinics:

Specialty Clinic for Sleep Disorders, Specialty Clinic for Geriatric Memory Disorders, Specialty Clinic for Geriatric Frailty, and TCM Health Clinic for Male Menopause.

Departmental Scientific Research Achievements: Important scientific research achievements obtained by the department (listed in reverse chronological order or by importance).

1. 2022 Science and Technology Development Project of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine: funded project—Study of the therapeutic mechanism of a spleen-strengthening and kidney-benefiting dietary therapy formula for geriatric frailty mice based on gut microbiota and metabolomics.

2. Special Clinical Research Project funded by the Clinical Business Development Fund for High-Level Hospitals of China-Japan Friendship Hospital: Study of the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine pathogenesis theory and pharmacological treatment of Alzheimer disease.

3. Hospital-level Project of China-Japan Friendship Hospital: Study of the mechanism of Shenghui Yizhi Decoction in treating Alzheimer disease based on the PI3K/AKT/HSP70 pathway.

Departmental Teaching:

The department undertakes: 1. the standardized training and assessment of TCM residents in Beijing; 2. part of the teaching of Internal Medicine of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Geriatrics, and Special Topics in Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Internal Medicine for Class B of the Excellence Program in Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine of the Chinese Medicine major at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.

Location within the Hospital: The Traditional Chinese Medicine Geriatric Disease Clinic is located on the 2nd floor of Building M in the main campus of China-Japan Friendship Hospital.

Outpatient Telephone: 010-84206494