Ophthalmology Ward 1

The Department of Ophthalmology of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University was established in 1954. Under the successive leadership of several generations of renowned ophthalmology experts, including Professor Jing Chongde, Professor Wang Baolin, Professor Lü Shirong, and Professor Yuan Huiping, the Department of Ophthalmology of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University became one of the nationally renowned ophthalmology centers, is a key discipline at the provincial level in Heilongjiang Province, was approved in 2009 as a standardized physician training base by the Ministry of Health, was approved in 2012 for the National Clinical Key Specialty Construction Project, had its glaucoma specialty designated in 2017 as a first-class specialty under the hospital’s key development program, spearheaded the establishment of the Glaucoma Alliance of the four northeastern provinces in 2018, was approved in 2020 as the Heilongjiang Provincial Branch Center of the National Clinical Medical Research Center for Eye Diseases, and in the same year spearheaded the establishment of the Heilongjiang Fundus Disease Alliance; in 2022, it was approved as the Clinical and Research Center for Diabetic Retinopathy.

Today, the ophthalmology expert team at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University is very strong. Under the leadership of Professor Sun Dawei, Director of Ophthalmology, academic discipline leader, and Director of the Teaching and Research Section, its medical care, teaching, scientific research, and academic standards continue to achieve outstanding results. The medical team includes 34 faculty members, including 16 professors and 8 associate professors; there are 10 doctoral supervisors and 19 master’s supervisors. The department is responsible for the theoretical and clinical teaching of regular undergraduate students, students in the clinical 5+3 program, graduate students, and international students. The clinical work of the Department of Ophthalmology of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University covers ten subspecialties, including glaucoma, fundus diseases, cataract, corneal and ocular-surface diseases, oculoplasty and orbital diseases, ocular trauma, strabismus and pediatric eye diseases, uveitis, ophthalmic optics and optometry, and medical refraction.

The Department of Ophthalmology includes seven departments: the ophthalmology outpatient clinic, ophthalmology wards, the ophthalmology central operating room, the ophthalmology refractive center, the ophthalmology imaging diagnosis and treatment center, the intravitreal injection center, and the ophthalmic prosthesis center. The ophthalmology department has a complete range of technical units and comprehensive professional equipment. For three consecutive years from 2020 to 2022, it was among the nominated hospitals in the ophthalmology specialty category of the Fudan University Hospital Rankings National Specialty Reputation Rankings, ranking among the top 20 nationwide. It was the only nominated hospital in Northeast China, and its ophthalmology specialty ranked first in Northeast China in both 2021 and 2022.

Ophthalmology Ward 1 currently has 1 second-level professor and 5 professors, 3 doctoral supervisors and 4 master’s supervisors; 1 recipient of a special allowance from the State Council, 1 provincial high-end talent in Category C and 2 in Category D, 2 Longjiang Famous Doctors, and 1 Harbin Medical University Xinglian Distinguished Professor. It has led 9 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and 3 provincial key research and development and key projects; it has received 1 First Prize of the Provincial Government Science and Technology Progress Award, representing a breakthrough from zero in our province, and 4 Second Prizes, and has published 52 SCI articles. Its faculty members have served as editor-in-chief or deputy editor-in-chief of 3 nationally unified and planned textbooks, and won first place of the year in the National Ophthalmology Teaching Ward-Round Competition.

The glaucoma specialty is a first-class specialty of the hospital. It has a member on the National Glaucoma Group Committee, a deputy head of the Glaucoma Group of the Chinese Women Physicians Association and the Microcirculation Special Committee, and is the chairing institution of the Northeast Four Provinces and Regions Glaucoma Specialty Alliance. It is a standardized glaucoma diagnosis and treatment training base in Northeast China. It has established a northern regional model for the early prevention and treatment of glaucoma and is a member institution of the Asia-Pacific Ocular Epidemiology Collaboration Group. Various minimally invasive glaucoma and combined surgeries have been performed, and personalized treatment concepts based on mechanisms such as angle closure have been proposed. Follow-up records have been established and whole-course management has been implemented, effectively protecting patients’ visual function.

The cataract specialty was the first to carry out microincision phacoemulsification cataract surgery and refractive cataract surgery with implantation of functional intraocular lenses. The strabismus and pediatric eye disease specialty is the leading institution of the provincial Strabismus and Pediatric Eye Disease Group. It performs minimally invasive surgical treatment for various difficult and complex forms of strabismus, achieving few complications and a high orthotropia rate.

The orbit and oculoplasty subspecialty has performed endoscopic minimally invasive orbital and optic canal decompression surgery and endoscopic-assisted excision of deep orbital tumors, enabling multidisciplinary collaborative diagnosis and treatment of complex diseases such as thyroid-associated eye disease and tumors involving the nose, skull, and orbit. It also has distinctive expertise in the routine minimally invasive treatment of lacrimal apparatus diseases and in blepharoplasty.