Pharmacy Department – Clinical Pharmacy Section

【Overview】 The Clinical Pharmacy Office of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine was established in 2001, and the Department of Clinical Pharmacy was established in 2016. It is a designated cultivation unit for a key clinical pharmacy specialty of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The Department of Clinical Pharmacy focuses on promoting rational drug use and ensuring the safe, rational, and economical use of medicines. It is also a Chinese medicine clinical pharmacist training base of the China Association of Chinese Medicine. It currently undertakes the training and mentoring of Chinese medicine clinical pharmacists in 5 specialties: cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease, encephalopathy, oncology, and general medicine. As of 2022, it had trained 55 Chinese medicine clinical pharmacists from across the country and has considerable influence in the discipline. There are currently 13 pharmacy professionals, 1 chief pharmacist, 4 associate chief pharmacists, 5 supervising pharmacists/Chinese medicine pharmacists, 3 pharmacists/Chinese medicine pharmacists, 2 pharmacists holding Medication Therapy Management（MTM） pharmacist certificates, 2 holders of doctoral degrees, and 11 pharmacists with training certificates. 【Department Features】 1、The department conducts pharmacy rounds, patient education, adverse drug reaction/antimicrobial drug monitoring and reporting, and other work; it conducts nearly 3000 pharmacy consultations/year, nearly 200 hospital-wide difficult case discussions/year, and more than 100 pharmacy outpatient visits. 2、The department explores the development path of clinical pharmacy of Chinese medicine: it has established the “Detailed Rules for Prescription Review at Hospitals of Chinese Medicine” with the characteristics of hospitals of Chinese medicine and has initially completed informatization; it has established an evaluation system for off-label drug use that gives equal emphasis to Chinese and Western medicines and has completed informatization of the entire process; taking contraindications for drug use in G6PD deficiency as a representative example, it has improved monitoring of the safe use of Chinese medicines; 3、In the past 5 years, it has led 8 research projects, including 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China project, edited or contributed to 7 books, and published 16 papers. 【Talent Structure】 Academic Leader: Lin Hua Major Department Director: Lin Hua Department Deputy Director: Wang Yingyan Department Supervisor Position ：Lai Xiaoxiao Department Clinical Pharmacists: Luo Yini、Sun Na、Li Yinghui、Duan Xiaohong、Zhang Jie、Zhong Ling、Wang Xiaohui、Shen Yuqiao、Chen She、Wu Zhaodi、Yuan Xin