Endocrinology

The Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases of Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital is a department in the provincial leading talent echelon. The department focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes and its complications, gestational diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome, thyroid diseases, adrenal diseases, secondary hypertension, hyperuricemia, and other diseases.

The department also has 4 members of the Study Group of the Diabetes Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and 3 members of the Study Group of the Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association. It has 8 nationally certified diabetes specialist nurses, 3 health managers, and 2 wound and ostomy therapists.

The department has medical infrastructure including a non-mydriatic fundus screening camera, a peripheral nerve sensory threshold detector, an ABI ultrasound examination device, a visceral fat detector, and insulin pumps. The department has successively been designated as a sub-center of the National Standardized Metabolic Disease Management Center, a sub-center of the China Diabetic Retinopathy Screening and Prevention Network, a training and practice base for blood glucose management of inpatients in China, a sub-center for hyperuricemia and gout management of the Asia-Pacific Gout Alliance, a sub-center of the Chinese Thyroid Alliance, and a member institution of the Obesity Diagnosis and Treatment Alliance of Endocrinology and Metabolism Departments. The outpatient department has advanced instruments for screening diabetic complications, providing one-stop access to the specialized examinations required by people with diabetes.