Dermatology Department

The Department of Dermatology of Peking University People’s Hospital is a national key discipline and a clinical key specialty of the Ministry of Health; a national “211” and “985” key discipline; a degree-granting unit authorized to confer doctoral degrees by the Ministry of Education; a standardized residency training base of the Ministry of Health; a dermatology and venereology specialty base of the national drug agency; and a demonstration base for dermatologic cosmetology of the Chinese Medical Association.

The department has 20 physicians, including 10 chief and associate chief physicians. Professor Zhang Jianzhong, the department director, currently serves as Chair of the Dermatology and Venereology Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, and more than 10 department members hold positions in various academic organizations. The department’s research on atopic dermatitis (eczema), vitiligo, lupus erythematosus, cutaneous mycobacterial diseases, and alopecia is at the leading level nationally. The department was the first in the world to report “atopic dermatitis-like graft-versus-host disease” and “pregnancy-related gluteofemoral erythema,” and was the first to identify the simple hypotrichosis gene RLP21; it was the first in China to identify swimming-pool granuloma. It led the development of China’s Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Atopic Dermatitis, Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Eczema, Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Male Pattern Hair Loss, and Guidelines for Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus, and participated in developing the Consensus on Vitiligo Treatment. It has outstanding capabilities in the diagnosis and treatment of severe and difficult-to-diagnose skin diseases. The department has active international exchanges. Professor Zhang Jianzhong received the 2013 International League of Dermatological Societies Award for Distinguished Contribution. More than 70 doctoral students, master’s students, and international students have been trained, along with more than 100 physicians receiving further training.

The department provides specialist clinics, clinics for special needs, subspecialty clinics, inpatient wards, a dermatologic medical laser center, a dermatopathology laboratory, a dermatology mycology laboratory, a sexually transmitted disease laboratory, a treatment room, an operating room, and a dermatology research laboratory. It handles approximately 140,000 outpatient visits annually, has 21 inpatient beds, and discharges more than 400 patients annually.