Clinical Nutrition

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

Huashan Hospital’s nutrition discipline was established in 1942. Its successive directors were Zhang Shaolan, Zheng Xianmei, Wang Meifang, and Liu Jingfang; the current department director is Shao Chunhai. In 1999, under the leadership of Professor Liu Jingfang, then department director, the department was converted from a logistics department into a clinical medical-technical department, embarking on discipline development and continuing to grow steadily. Through the joint efforts of several generations of nutrition professionals, it has developed into a team rich in talent, with a well-structured professional echelon, an international outlook, a spirit of innovation, inclusiveness, and enterprise, forming a comprehensive clinical nutrition department integrating medical care, teaching, and research.

The department’s core team consists of Director Shao Chunhai, Deputy Director Tian Fang, and Associate Research Fellow Zhang Jiaying. It currently has 18 nutrition professionals, including 3 with senior professional titles and 7 with intermediate professional titles; 7 are physicians and 11 are technicians. In terms of educational qualifications, the department has 4 PhD holders, 3 doctoral students currently enrolled, and 5 master’s degree holders, including professionals from Fudan University, Capital Medical University, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, London College in the United Kingdom, Seoul University in South Korea, Kitasato University in Japan, and other institutions in China and abroad.

The Department of Clinical Nutrition at Huashan Hospital has developed into one of Shanghai’s departments with the highest level of nutritional medical quality and has ranked near the top in Shanghai’s clinical nutrition quality-control inspections for many years. It is also an institution undertaking a challenge project under the National Health Commission’s Food Safety and Nutrition Health High-Quality Development Policy Advisory Project, a member institution of the expert working group for the Clinical Nutrition Project of the Institute of Hospital Management of the National Health Commission, a Clinical Nutrition Demonstration Unit of the Chinese Nutrition Society, a China Clinical Nutrition Demonstration Base of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and a Nutritionist Training Base of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association.

Many members of the department hold academic positions in academic organizations at the national and Shanghai municipal levels, including Deputy Chair of the Clinical Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society, member of the Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, Standing Committee Member of the Nutrition Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Standing Committee Member of the Nutrition and Food Safety Branch of the Chinese Society of Geriatric Medicine, Council Member of the Shanghai Nutrition Society, and Deputy Chair of the Geriatrics Branch of the Shanghai Nutrition Society. The department has successively received the titles of “Red Flag Civilized Post” and “Standardized Service Demonstration Window” from the Shanghai health system, as well as “Medical Weight-Loss Teaching Unit” from the China Association for Promotion of International Medical and Healthcare Exchange.

| Distinctive Features |--------------

The Department of Clinical Nutrition has always emphasized comprehensive development and actively advanced toward discipline-based development. Clinical nutrition services, medical diet management, and research and teaching have progressed in parallel and mutually reinforced one another, with the aim of providing patients with higher-quality medical nutrition services.

Clinical nutrition services cover nutrition risk screening, nutrition assessment, nutrition consultation, nutrition outpatient services, and multidisciplinary MDT care. Therapeutic diet services cover basic therapeutic diets, special therapeutic diets, and enteral nutrition. Research and teaching are conducted year-round, and, in response to the national health education strategy, the department actively carries out health science outreach.

The Department of Clinical Nutrition actively develops multidisciplinary collaboration. Over years of clinical work, it has gradually developed subspecialty areas including gout nutrition, renal disease nutrition, metabolic diseases and nutrition, nervous system diseases and nutrition, digestive system diseases and nutrition, allergic diseases and nutrition, and microecological nutrition. It has gradually conducted research around these specialties, enhancing the department’s academic competitiveness. In addition, while closely integrating its work with clinical practice, the department now operates a Clinical Nutrition Specialist Consultation Clinic, Nutrition Consultation Clinics at the Main Hospital, Baoshan Campus, and Hongqiao Campus, and a Geriatric Weight Management Nutrition Consultation Clinic at Baoshan Campus. It also promotes multidisciplinary collaboration and operates joint clinics including the “Gout–Nutrition Joint Clinic,” the “Specialty Clinic for Comprehensive Management and Nutritional Intervention in Chronic Kidney Disease,” and the “Endocrinology–Nutrition Joint Obesity Clinic.”

| Medical Work |--------------

The Department of Clinical Nutrition is responsible for the nutritional diagnosis and treatment and therapeutic diet treatment of all inpatients throughout the hospital. It comprehensively provides nutrition screening, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment; medical diets; enteral nutrition therapy; and participation in parenteral nutrition therapy. It also participates in the hospital’s multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment (MDT), rare disease diagnosis and treatment, and other services. All campuses offer Clinical Nutrition Specialist Consultation Clinics; the Nutrition Consultation Clinics, Geriatric Weight Management Clinics, and Joint Clinics together comprise 10 units, and the volume of medical work has increased year by year. The department also undertakes the formulation of trial meals for Phase I clinical-trial wards, special nutrition support, and food safety support for the China International Import Expo, and conducts more than 20 free community nutrition consultation clinics and lectures. In recognition of its outstanding clinical medical work, the Department of Clinical Nutrition received the 2025 Shanghai Clinical Nutrition Professional Medical Quality Control “Zhenhua Unit” and “Elite Unit” distinctions.

| Research Work |--------------

The Department of Clinical Nutrition has successively led the National Health Commission’s Food Safety and Nutrition Health High-Quality Development Policy Advisory Project, the public science project of the General Administration of Sport of China, the Youth Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, projects under Shanghai’s Sports Science and Technology “Preparation and Key Research Program” and Tengfei Program, and several research projects of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission and the Pudong New Area Health Commission. It has participated in the Ministry of Science and Technology’s key intergovernmental international science and technology innovation cooperation project, multiple nationwide multicenter clinical studies, and several intramural nutrition-related research projects. Department members have published papers as first or corresponding authors, served as chief editors or deputy chief editors of multiple textbooks and books, led and participated in the development of multiple guidelines, and obtained 1 authorized patent.

| Teaching and Public Outreach |--------------

The Department of Clinical Nutrition at Huashan Hospital is a designated teaching and internship base for nutrition programs of Fudan University, Tongji University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, and several other institutions. It received the Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences “2025 Teaching Demonstration Department for the Food Hygiene and Nutrition Program” distinction. Each year, it receives interns and visiting trainees from across the country and hosts international nutrition exchange delegations and peers from throughout the country for visits and study. In 2025, it offered the Fudan University undergraduate elective course “Medical Dietetics.”

The Department of Clinical Nutrition strengthens specialized nutrition services for patients internally and, externally, focuses on the social role of a department in a Grade III Class A hospital. Nutritionists at all levels work year-round at the forefront of health science outreach, disseminate professional nutrition knowledge, and put the Healthy China strategy into practice. Over the past 5 years, the department has published more than 100 original health science outreach articles and produced more than 20 original health science outreach videos. Its works have received first prize in the National Clinical Nutrition Science Outreach Competition, as well as multiple science outreach awards presented by the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, the Shanghai Shenkang Hospital Development Center, Fudan University, and others.

| Department Honors |--------------

2025 Shanghai Nutrition Society “Advanced Unit for National Nutrition Week”

2025 Shanghai Clinical Nutrition Quality Control Center “Zhenhua Unit” and “Elite Unit”

2024 Food Safety and Nutrition Health High-Quality Development Policy Advisory Project Challenge-Project Undertaking Unit

2023 Shanghai Nutrition Society “Outstanding Contribution Award for National Nutrition Week (2023)”

2020 Clinical Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society “Advanced Unit for Outstanding Organization of National Nutrition Week (2020)”

2019 Clinical Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society “Advanced Unit for Outstanding Organization of National Nutrition Week (2019)”

2019 Shanghai Nutrition Society “Outstanding Contribution Award for National Nutrition Week (2019)”

2018 Shanghai Nutrition Society “Outstanding Contribution Award for National Nutrition Week (2018)”

2018 Nutrition Physicians Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association “Advanced Department for Medical Diet Work”

2017 Top Ten Outstanding Clinical Nutrition Teams on the First China Nutrition Excellence List

2013 Chinese Medical Doctor Association “China Clinical Nutrition Demonstration Base”

2012 Fudan University-Affiliated Huashan Hospital “Advanced Collective”

2011 Chinese Nutrition Society “China Clinical Nutrition Demonstration Unit”

| Discipline Leader |--------------

Shao Chunhai, Director of the Department of Clinical Nutrition, Associate Chief Technician, supervisor of master’s students; member of the Chinese Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (CSPEN) of the Chinese Medical Association, Standing Committee Member and Head of the Critical Care Group of the Clinical Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society, Standing Committee Member of the Nutrition and Chronic Disease Control Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society, Standing Committee Member of the Fifth Committee of the Nutrition Physicians Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Standing Committee Member of the Second Committee of the Nutrition and Rehabilitation Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, editorial board member of the Chinese Medical Journal, member of the Food Allergy and Severe Allergic Reactions Group of the Seventh Committee of the Allergy Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, expert reviewer for financial projects of the China Association for Science and Technology, member of the Fifth Committee of the Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Specialized Branch of the Shanghai Medical Association, Council Member of the Shanghai Nutrition Society and Deputy Chair of its Geriatric Nutrition Group, and PI of the National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases at Fudan University.

He has long been engaged in the nutritional diagnosis and treatment of patients with kidney disease, gout, malnutrition, rare diseases, and microecological nutrition needs, as well as critically ill patients. He has led or participated in multiple research projects, including General Program projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, projects of the National Social Science Fund of China, and projects of the National Health Commission, the General Administration of Sport of China, the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, and others. He has published multiple papers in SCI-indexed and domestic core journals, served as chief editor or contributing editor of multiple books and guidelines, and received the First Prize for Outstanding Papers from the Clinical Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society and the Silver Award at the Sixth China (Shanghai) International Invention and Innovation Exhibition as the fourth contributor.

Liu Jingfang, consultant to the Clinical Nutrition discipline, formerly Deputy Chair of the Clinical Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society, member of the Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, Deputy Chair of the Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Specialized Branch of the Shanghai Medical Association, Standing Committee Member of the Nutrition Physicians Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Council Member of the Shanghai Nutrition Society, and an expert in the Clinical Nutrition Project Expert Working Group of the Institute of Hospital Management of the National Health Commission. She is currently a Standing Committee Member of the Nutrition and Metabolic Management Branch of the China Association for Promotion of International Medical and Healthcare Exchange, a Standing Committee Member of the Specialized Committee of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition of the Chinese Research Hospitals Association, a member of the Expert Committee of the Shanghai Clinical Nutrition Quality Control Center, and a Supervisory Board Member of the Shanghai Nutrition Society. She has long been engaged in clinical nutrition care, teaching, research, and management, and has extensive experience in clinical nutrition therapy and management.