Cadre Endocrinology Department

The Department of Geriatric Endocrinology has 28 beds, with an annual outpatient volume (endocrinology outpatient clinic, cadre outpatient clinic) of nearly 30000 visits and more than 1000 discharges annually; it is a discipline integrating clinical care, teaching, and research.

The department currently has 12 physicians, including 1 re-employed staff member, 1 doctoral supervisor, 5 master's supervisors, 6 holders of doctoral degrees, 2 doctoral students currently enrolled, and 6 holders of master's degrees; among them are 5 chief physicians, 4 deputy chief physicians, and 3 attending physicians, including 1 provincial academic and technical leader and 1 reserve candidate; the talent structure is well balanced, and the department has developed favorable momentum for sustainable development.

Technological Strengths

This specialty provides diagnosis and treatment for common diseases, frequently occurring diseases, and critical and difficult cases involving geriatric endocrine and metabolic diseases and related comorbidities. It is at a first-class level within the province in the diagnosis and treatment of geriatric diabetes, thyroid diseases, pituitary diseases, parathyroid diseases, adrenal diseases, and geriatric endocrine diseases complicated by cognitive and emotional disorders, among others. At the same time, it continuously introduces and applies new technologies and methods from China and abroad to improve the diagnosis and rescue-treatment capabilities for endocrine system diseases; the conditions diagnosed and treated include geriatric endocrine diseases complicated by multiple-organ failure, hyperosmolar nonketotic diabetic coma, diabetic ketoacidosis and coma, severe osteoporosis, and subclinical hypothyroidism complicated by cognitive impairment. In research, it has reached a domestically advanced or leading level in the mechanisms and rehabilitation treatment of thyroid diseases complicated by cognitive and emotional disorders, the pathogenesis and rehabilitation mechanisms of chronic diabetic complications, the assessment of various cognitive and emotional scales, the operation of functional magnetic resonance imaging technology and extraction of functional images, and individualized precision treatment of geriatric diabetes.

Department Honors

The department has led multiple projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, the Provincial Natural Science Foundation, and provincial higher-education natural science research projects, and its research achievements have won the Second Prize and Third Prize of the Anhui Science and Technology Award. The department was recognized as an Advanced Collective in Health-Care Work in Anhui Province for 2024, and 1 person was recognized as an Advanced Individual in Health-Care Work in Anhui Province.