Transfusion Medicine Department

| General Overview |--------------

The Department of Transfusion Medicine of Huashan Hospital Affiliated with Fudan University was established in May 2006 and evolved from the blood bank of the Department of Laboratory Medicine. With the care and support of the hospital’s Party and administrative leadership at all levels, nearly two decades of development have created a highly educated, highly skilled, young, and dynamic clinical transfusion technology team. From the blood bank it was at its inception, the Department has developed into a clinical department integrating blood storage and distribution, transfusion testing, blood therapy, research, and education. The Department of Transfusion Medicine of Huashan Hospital currently comprises the departments at the main hospital and its Hongqiao, Baoshan, and Pudong campuses.

The department serves as the chairing institution of the Fifth Committee of the Transfusion Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; its personnel include the editor-in-chief of Chinese Transfusion Medicine, 3rd edition; a Standing Committee member and Secretary-General of the Clinical Transfusion Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; the chair of the First Committee of the Transfusion Physicians Branch of the Shanghai Medical Doctor Association; the honorary chair of the Transfusion Specialty Branch of the Shanghai Medical Association; the chair of the Experimental Medicine (Clinical Transfusion) Committee of the National Association of Health Industry Enterprise Management; an Executive Council member of the Chinese Association of Blood Transfusion; the deputy chair of the Blood Therapy and Engineering Branch of the Chinese Society for Biomedical Engineering; the deputy chair of the Transfusion Medicine Equipment Technology Committee of the China Medical Equipment Association; the vice president of the Second Council of the International Asia-Pacific Society for Blood Types and Genomics; and a member of the Clinical Transfusion Working Party of ISBT (International Society of Blood Transfusion). The department is also the lead institution for the Shanghai Public Health Key Discipline Development Project in Transfusion Medicine. It currently has 30 medical, technical, and nursing professionals, including 3 doctoral degree holders and 9 master’s degree holders; 1 doctoral supervisor and 2 master’s supervisors; and 10 members of the Communist Party of China. Department personnel have successively served as presidents, chairs, deputy chairs, Standing Committee members, committee members, and members of youth committees in numerous national and Shanghai academic organizations. The department has 1 Outstanding Academic Leader in Public Health Transfusion Medicine in Shanghai, 1 leader of a Shanghai Public Health Key Discipline Development Project, and 1 Shanghai Pujiang Talent. It has received 1 second prize of a provincial Science and Technology Progress Award as the second-ranking contributor; published 3 textbooks and scholarly works as chief editor and 1 as deputy editor; published more than 160 academic papers as first or corresponding author, including more than 80 SCI-indexed papers; led 10 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and more than 10 provincial- or ministerial-level projects; and obtained 6 authorized patents.

| Academic Leader |--------------

Xia Rong, Director of the Department of Transfusion Medicine of Huashan Hospital Affiliated with Fudan University and Secretary of the General Party Branch for Medical and Technical Services, holds a doctoral degree in medicine and is a professor, chief physician, and doctoral supervisor. She is chair of the Fifth Committee of the Transfusion Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; a Standing Committee member and Secretary-General of the Clinical Transfusion Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; chair of the First Committee of the Transfusion Physicians Branch of the Shanghai Medical Doctor Association; honorary chair of the Transfusion Specialty Branch of the Shanghai Medical Association; an Outstanding Academic Leader in Public Health Transfusion Medicine in Shanghai; leader of a Shanghai Public Health Key Discipline Development Project; an Executive Council member of the Chinese Association of Blood Transfusion; chair of the Experimental Medicine (Clinical Transfusion) Special Committee of the National Association of Health Industry Enterprise Management; deputy chair of the Blood Therapy and Engineering Branch of the Chinese Society for Biomedical Engineering; deputy chair of the Transfusion Medicine Equipment Technology Committee of the China Medical Equipment Association; vice president of the Second Council of the International Asia-Pacific Society for Blood Types and Genomics; and a member of the Clinical Transfusion Working Party of ISBT (International Society of Blood Transfusion). She is an expert reviewer for the first- and second-round evaluations of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, editor-in-chief of Chinese Transfusion Medicine, 3rd edition, and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Blood Transfusion and Hematology, Chinese Journal of Blood Transfusion, Clinical Blood Transfusion and Laboratory Medicine, and Journal of Clinical Hematology. She has received 5 General Program grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China and more than RMB 10 million in research funding, including funding from the Shanghai Public Health Key Discipline Development Project in Transfusion Medicine. She has published 3 textbooks and scholarly works as chief editor and 1 as deputy editor; published more than 100 transfusion-related papers as first or corresponding author; and supervised nearly 20 doctoral and master’s students. She is the course coordinator for the elective course Transfusion Medicine for the eight-year and five-year clinical medicine programs at Fudan University Shanghai Medical College and teaches clinical transfusion in both Chinese and English to undergraduate clinical medicine students and the MBBS international student class at Fudan University Shanghai Medical College.

| Department Leadership Group |--------------

Group leader:

Xia Rong Director

Group members:

Zhang Qi Director’s Assistant

Wang Zhicheng Secretary for Science and Education

| Medical Specialties |--------------

1. Transfusion-related laboratory diagnostic tests

ABO and Rh blood-group typing; crossmatching; antiglobulin testing and irregular antibody screening; blood-group antibody titration; pretransfusion testing for transfusion-transmissible viruses; HLA matching for transplantation; HLA-B27 testing; HLA-B*15:02 and HLA-B*58:01 testing; panel-reactive antibody (PRA) testing; donor-specific antibody (DSA) testing; platelet antibody testing; thromboelastography; and flow-cytometric detection of monocyte HLA-DR.

2. Blood and biotherapy services

Whole-blood and partial-blood exchange; plasma exchange, including whole-plasma exchange, lymphoplasmapheresis, and selective plasma exchange; artificial liver treatment, including bilirubin adsorption, plasma perfusion, and DPMAS; removal of hyperlipidemia; therapeutic blood-cell apheresis and exchange, including the removal and exchange of red blood cells, platelets, and white blood cells; PRP collection and treatment of multiple diseases; stem-cell collection, storage, and clinical application; various forms of autologous transfusion; and therapeutic phlebotomy.

| Research |--------------

1. Publications

Department members have published more than 80 SCI-indexed papers in journals including Journal of Medical Virology, Adv Sci (Weinh), Front Immunol, ACS Appl Mater Interfaces, and Vox Sanguinis as first or corresponding authors, as well as more than 80 papers in leading Chinese journals. The department has led the publication of 5 expert consensuses, including the Expert Consensus on Technical Standards for Therapeutic Blood Component Apheresis and the Expert Consensus on the Clinical Application of Autologous Apheresis Platelet-Rich Plasma in the Treatment of Alopecia.

2. Achievements and awards

The department received 1 second prize of a provincial Science and Technology Progress Award as the second-ranking contributor and obtained 6 authorized patents as the first inventor. Department members have received such honors as Outstanding Academic Leader in Public Health Transfusion Medicine in Shanghai, Fudan University Top Ten Outstanding Physician, Top Ten Outstanding Medical and Technical Professional, and Fudan University Outstanding Party Affairs Worker.

3. Grant projects

The department has led 10 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and more than 10 provincial- or ministerial-level projects. Current ongoing projects include 3 General Program projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and 1 Shanghai Natural Science Foundation project.

4. Four books as chief or deputy editor

The department has served as chief editor of Clinical Transfusion Medicine Testing Technology (Case-Based Edition), Practical Clinical Transfusion Medicine, and A One-Volume Guide to Blood Donation and Transfusion by Renowned Physicians, and as deputy editor of Chinese Transfusion Medicine, 2nd edition. Department members have contributed to more than 20 textbooks and scholarly works, including Practical Internal Medicine.

| Teaching |--------------

The department has 1 doctoral supervisor and 2 master’s supervisors and has trained 28 doctoral and master’s graduate students. It is responsible for the elective course Transfusion Medicine for the eight-year and five-year clinical medicine programs at Fudan University Shanghai Medical College; provides bilingual teaching in clinical transfusion for undergraduate clinical medicine students and the MBBS international student class, as well as for the Laboratory Medicine Department of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; and supervises interns in the Laboratory Medicine programs of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and Shanghai Health Medical College. As a partner department of the Shanghai Youth Science and Innovation Laboratory (Huashan Hospital Science Popularization Innovation Laboratory), it imparts transfusion-related knowledge to young people through an integrated theory-and-practice model, nurturing unlimited possibilities for the future of transfusion medicine. The department has organized multiple national-level training courses, including Evaluation of the Appropriateness of Clinical Blood Use and Assessment of Its Effectiveness and Advances in the Clinical Application of Transfusion Therapy in Multiple Disciplines. It has accepted nearly 100 visiting technical trainees from transfusion medicine departments, laboratory medicine departments, and blood centers at hospitals across the country. After returning to their original institutions, many of these trainees became department directors, helping train a large number of professional transfusion medicine personnel for the country. Department experts deliver multiple plenary keynote and specialized presentations at national academic conferences every year, sharing research findings and experience in transfusion therapy and promoting the development of transfusion medicine.