Spine Orthopedics

Spine Orthopedics Department Introduction. The Second People’s Hospital of Guangdong Province is the country’s first provincial-level emergency hospital, a national standardized residency training base, and a high-level hospital of Guangdong Province; the Department of Spine Orthopedics is one of the leading emergency disciplines, a key specialty under construction in Guangdong Province, and has been rated an advanced department for several consecutive years. The specialty currently has 4 chief physicians, 3 associate chief physicians, 3 attending physicians, and 1 resident physician, including 4 staff members with doctoral degrees and 5 with master’s degrees; it is a discipline integrating medical care, education, and research, responsible for the clinical diagnosis and treatment and basic research of spinal diseases, as well as the teaching and training of surgical standardized-training doctors, graduate students in spine orthopedics, and medical interns. The specialty offers expert and specialist outpatient clinics and has established an independent specialized inpatient ward, with 60 authorized beds; its main scope of diagnosis and treatment includes spinal degenerative diseases, spinal trauma, spinal deformities, spinal tumors, spinal infections, and other diseases. Equipped with advanced medical equipment, including an intraoperative O-arm CT scanner, microscope, transforaminal endoscope, discoscope, dual-channel spinal endoscope, minimally invasive access system, ultrasonic bone scalpel, high-speed drill, endoscopic bone power system, and others, our department performs various types of spinal surgery, including upper cervical spine surgery and anterior and posterior approach surgery for cervical spondylosis; corrective surgery for various complex spinal deformities, decompression and fixation for severe degenerative diseases of the cervical and lumbar spine, reduction and fixation for severe spinal fractures, resection and reconstruction of various primary and metastatic spinal tumors, percutaneous vertebroplasty, minimally invasive transforaminal endoscopic nucleus pulposus removal, minimally invasive endoscopic fusion surgery, microscope-assisted minimally invasive cervical and lumbar spine surgery, and resection of intraspinal tumors. Our department follows the philosophy of “precision medicine and rapid recovery,” centers on patients, and serves them wholeheartedly. According to the different clinical characteristics and medical needs of each patient, we use advanced modern medical examination equipment and clinical experience accumulated over many years to make accurate diagnoses and provide precision medicine, offering individualized diagnosis and treatment plans with the joint participation of “physicians-nurses-rehabilitation-patients.” Our professional and technical standards have received broad recognition from peers within the province. The academic leader, Professor Zhang Hui, is a chief physician, Doctor of Medicine, and doctoral supervisor at Southern Medical University and Jinan University. He graduated from the First Military Medical University and previously studied at Waasland Hospital in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, and Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH) of Washington University School of Medicine in the United States. During his studies in the United States, he studied under Professor DanielRiew, chairman of the North American Cervical Spine Surgery Association, and received guidance from Professor Lenke, a world-renowned expert in spinal deformities. He has engaged in the clinical practice and research of spinal and spinal cord diseases for more than 30 years and is skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of various spinal diseases, with particularly profound clinical expertise in cervical spondylosis, spinal deformity correction, and related areas. He has completed more than 4,000 spinal operations of various types in total, covering spinal trauma, degeneration, deformity, infection, spinal tumors, and other conditions. He has received 1 Second Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Guangdong Province and 2 Second Prizes for Medical Achievements of the entire military, led 4 provincial- and ministerial-level scientific research projects, and published more than 40 papers, including 7 SCI papers. He currently serves as vice chair of the Spine Surgery Professional Committee of the Guangdong Hospital Association; vice chair of the Spine Professional Committee of the Guangdong Health Management Association; standing committee member of the Spine Surgery Branch of the Guangdong Medical Association; standing committee member of the Spine Surgery Branch of the Guangdong Medical Doctor Association; vice chair of the Spine Surgery Management Branch of the Guangdong Medical Industry Association; and executive council member of the Spine and Spinal Cord Injury Professional Committee of the Guangdong Rehabilitation Medicine Association. He has been named a Yangcheng Good Doctor and a Lingnan Famous Doctor. The department currently has 1 doctoral supervisor and 4 master’s supervisors, trains 1 doctoral student and 5–10 master’s students each year, and also undertakes the training of standardized resident doctors and specialist doctors receiving further training. Each year, the department obtains funding for 3–5 provincial-, municipal-, and hospital-level research projects; its current research funding in active projects amounts to 2 million, and it publishes about 10 papers annually, nearly half of which are SCI papers. Several doctors in the specialty hold academic part-time positions within Guangdong Province, including vice chair of the Spinal Tumor Professional Committee of the Spine and Spinal Cord Branch of the Guangdong Rehabilitation Medicine Association, council member of the Spine and Spinal Cord Branch of the Guangdong Rehabilitation Medicine Association, member of the Cervical Spine Group of the Spine and Spinal Cord Branch of the Guangdong Rehabilitation Medicine Association, member of the Spine Branch of the Guangdong Medical Doctor Association, member of the Spine Professional Committee of the Guangdong Health Management Committee, and member of the Guangzhou Osteoporosis Committee. The nursing team is a highly competent, warm, and responsible professional technical team and is one of the advanced nursing units of this hospital. The team currently has 17 members: 2 specialist nurses, 1 deputy chief nurse, 4 nurse supervisors, 7 nurses holding the professional title of nurse, and 5 nurses; among them, Head Nurse Huang Lishan went to Hong Kong in 2010 for further training as a Hong Kong orthopedic specialist nurse. Since the department opened, she has led the nursing team in consistently upholding the service philosophy of “service is eternal, pursuit of excellence,” implementing standardized ward management, providing multiple distinctive high-quality services, and emphasizing humanistic care for perioperative patients. The team provides continuous, integrated, and comprehensive high-quality services to tens of thousands of patients from inside and outside the province and has also received affirmation and praise from countless patients. Department location: Building 3, 20th floor. Spine Orthopedics consultation telephone: 020-89169608.