Endocrinology

The Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Peking University People’s Hospital was established in 1986. Over the years, it has undertaken extensive medical education and research work and has remained at the forefront nationally in both the clinical practice and research of endocrine and metabolic diseases. In 2011, Peking University People’s Hospital obtained the Key Specialty Construction Project of the National Health and Family Planning Commission (Endocrinology and Metabolism); it is currently the only clinical research center in the field of diabetes in Beijing awarded by the Beijing Municipal Commission of Science and Technology.

The Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Peking University People’s Hospital currently has 4 active professors/chief physicians, 10 associate professors/deputy chief physicians, 7 attending physicians, 3 resident physicians, 14 nurses, and 4 laboratory technicians.

The Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Peking University People’s Hospital comprises an endocrinology outpatient clinic, endocrinology wards, an endocrinology clinical laboratory, and a diabetes research laboratory. The department has established groups for type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, nutrition and obesity, pituitary diseases, adrenal diseases, thyroid diseases, and bone mineral metabolism and osteoporosis. The endocrinology outpatient clinic receives nearly 150,000 patient visits annually, while the endocrinology wards admit more than 1,000 patients annually. The diseases diagnosed and treated encompass common diseases and rare, difficult-to-diagnose diseases related to the hypothalamus and pituitary, thyroid, adrenal glands, gonads, glucose and lipid metabolism, bone mineral metabolism, potassium and sodium metabolism, and water-electrolyte and acid-base balance. The endocrinology clinical laboratory performs testing for various endocrine hormones, glycated hemoglobin, urinary albumin, type 1 diabetes-related antibodies, and other items. The diabetes research laboratory undertakes extensive research tasks in areas including diabetes epidemiology, the molecular etiology of diabetes, molecular classification and individualized diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, and the pathogenesis of diabetes.

In recent years, the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Peking University People’s Hospital has kept pace with the latest developments in international medicine, actively introduced advanced disease diagnosis, treatment, and management technologies and concepts, extensively conducted clinical research on the evaluation of new diabetes drugs, and actively implemented various disease prevention and treatment guidelines. On the basis of standardizing disease diagnosis and treatment, it has applied emerging medical technologies to the individualized diagnosis and treatment of diseases, promoted the development of precision medicine, and continuously enhanced the reputation of the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of Peking University People’s Hospital among patients and peers.