Radiology

Radiology Department: Leading Strength. Guangzhou Medical University Affiliated Women and Children’s Medical Center is a Grade III Class A hospital integrating medical care, education, and research. It is the National Regional Children’s Medical Center (Central and Southern China) and one of the most influential specialized women’s and children’s hospitals in China, especially in South China. The Radiology Department was established in 1953. Former department director Liu Liwei was one of the founders of China’s pediatric radiology group. The current director, Professor Liu Hongsheng, is a member of the Pediatric Group of the Radiology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a member of the Pediatric Imaging Special Committee of the Chinese Association of Radiologists, deputy director of the Maternal-Fetal Imaging Medicine Special Committee of the Chinese Maternal and Child Health Association, director of the Radiology Special Committee of the Guangdong Primary Medical Association, and deputy director of the Radiology Branch of the Guangzhou Medical Association. The department adheres to the philosophy of “actively exploring and striving for progress; doctors and patients united and advancing hand in hand,” continuously improves its scale and raises its technical level, and has always led the advancement and development of pediatric imaging. Advanced equipment. Our department has internationally leading medical imaging equipment. Across the Zhujiang New Town Campus, Children’s Campus, Women and Infants Campus, Baiyun Campus, and Zengcheng Campus, there are 5 3.0T MRI units, 1 1.5T MRI unit, 1 320-slice spiral CT unit, 2 64-slice spiral CT units, 5 flat-panel digital gastrointestinal imaging units, 3 digital mammography units, 8 DR units, 12 bedside DR units, 1 bone densitometer, and the supporting PACS workstation processing system. Outstanding talent. The four campuses have 107 staff members in total, including 2 doctoral supervisors, 5 master’s supervisors, 8 chief physicians, 12 deputy chief physicians, 2 chief technologists, 2 deputy chief technologists, 1 chief nurse, 1 deputy chief nurse, 7 supervising technologists, 6 supervising nurses, and 72 staff with junior professional titles. Many department directors hold important positions in national, provincial, and municipal radiology societies, radiologist branches, and other professional organizations. Women’s and children’s specialties. In addition to routine X-ray, CT, and MR examinations, the Radiology Department also performs various special pediatric contrast examinations, diagnosis and reduction of intussusception, bone-age assessment, CT scanning for congenital heart disease, fetal MRI, MR hydrography of the small intestine in children, three-dimensional MRI of the brachial plexus, DCE MRI of pediatric brain tumors, high-resolution MR examinations for primary epilepsy, and other pediatric specialty examinations. Fetal medicine has been designated a key specialty of Guangdong Province, and fetal MRI diagnosis is one of the earliest such specialty services established in China; extensive case experience has been accumulated in daily medical work. Research and education. The Radiology Department has always emphasized academic exchanges with peer institutions at home and abroad. It has established long-term research partnerships with several world-renowned children’s hospitals, including Astrid Lindgrens Children’s Hospital affiliated with Karolinska University in Sweden, BC Children’s Hospital in Canada, Cincinatti Children’s Hospital in the United States, and the affiliated hospital of the University of Southern California, and has sent many doctors abroad for visiting study. The department took the lead in establishing the Guangdong Women and Children’s Radiology Specialty Alliance to improve equipment utilization, regional collaboration, and support and teaching; led the establishment of the Radiology Special Committee of the Guangdong Primary Medical Association, with Director Liu Hongsheng serving as chair; and led the establishment of the Women’s and Children’s Group of the Imaging Technology Branch of the Guangdong Medical Association. At present, as a national-level radiology teaching and standardized training base, it accepts radiologists and physicians undergoing standardized training from all over China for further study and training. It also periodically holds high-quality national- and provincial-level continuing education courses for the whole country, such as “New Knowledge in Pediatric Nervous System Imaging Diagnosis” and “Advances in Prenatal Fetal MRI Diagnosis and Technology.” It regularly organizes academic conferences such as the Guangdong Women and Children’s Radiology Specialty Alliance Conference and the grassroots tour of the Radiology Special Committee of the Guangdong Primary Medical Association, providing medical colleagues with a high-level academic exchange platform and promoting new pediatric imaging technologies and clinical application training.