Gastroenterology, Puwan Campus / Endoscopy Center, Puwan Campus

The Gastroenterology specialty within the Department of Internal Medicine at the Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University was established in 1966 and became an independent department in 1998. It is currently a key discipline in Liaoning Province, comprising the gastroenterology outpatient clinic, inpatient wards, and digestive endoscopy center. In 2019, it took the lead in establishing the Southern Liaoning Digestive Tract Early Cancer Alliance, and in 2022 it was approved as a National Regional Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. The Department of Gastroenterology has a strong reputation for clinical care, scientific research, and teaching in areas including new digestive endoscopy technologies, autoimmune-related liver diseases, end-stage liver disease, and inflammatory bowel disease. The department currently has 28 staff physicians, including 8 chief physicians; 10 hold doctoral degrees and 17 hold master's degrees, with 1 doctoral postgraduate supervisor and 6 master's supervisors.

All specialists providing consultations in the Department of Gastroenterology at Puwan Campus are department heads/academic core staff from the corresponding department at the Xinghai Campus of the Second Hospital of Dalian Medical University. Professor Jiang Chunmeng is Director of the Gastroenterology discipline and Chair of the Gastroenterology Branch of the Dalian Medical Association. The nursing team consists of experienced nursing administrators and nurses assigned by the main hospital campus, who provide high-quality nursing care and promote patients’ physical and mental health.

The Department of Gastroenterology at Puwan Campus provides diagnostic, treatment, and nursing services and endoscopic diagnostic and treatment technologies at the same standards as the main hospital. In digestive endoscopy, endoscopic minimally invasive resection techniques are used for early tumors of the digestive tract, including early gastric cancer, leiomyomas, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, giant colorectal adenomas, and others. Tunnel endoscopy techniques are used to treat achalasia of the cardia and resect intramural gastrointestinal tumors, among other procedures. Endoscopic treatment is provided for massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding from various causes, including sclerotherapy and ligation for bleeding from ruptured esophageal and gastric fundal varices, ulcer bleeding, and vascular bleeding. The department’s diagnostic and treatment scope mainly includes the diagnosis and treatment of various common and frequently occurring diseases of the digestive system, such as functional gastrointestinal diseases, diagnosis and treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection, acute and chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer, gastroesophageal reflux disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and liver diseases of various causes, including autoimmune liver disease, drug-induced liver injury, fatty liver disease, and end-stage liver disease.