Nutrition

The Department of Nutrition was established in 1999. After more than two decades of dedicated work, it has developed into a clinical nutrition discipline integrating medical care, teaching and research. It is a national Top 100 Medical Nutrition and Weight-Reduction Teaching Base, a standing committee member unit of the Clinical Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society, an executive standing council member unit of the Clinical Nutrition Branch of the Guangdong Nutrition Society, the chair unit of the Nutrition Physicians Branch of the Shenzhen Medical Doctors Association, and the chair unit of the Nutrition and Health Branch of the Shenzhen Health Management Association. The department has 6 doctors: 1 chief physician, 3 attending physicians and 2 physicians; 2 hold doctoral degrees, 3 hold master's degrees and 1 holds a bachelor's degree. It has an enteral-nutrition preparation room, therapeutic-diet area, nutrition clinic and pharmacy for enteral-nutrition preparations, and is equipped with enteral-nutrition pumps, laminar-flow workstations and portable body-composition analyzers. Departmental specialties and distinctive diagnostic and treatment services: The Department of Nutrition provides therapeutic diets for all types of diseases and enteral and parenteral nutritional support for patients with cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarction, major surgery, tumor radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and other conditions. It has dozens of types of enteral-nutrition preparations and foods for special medical purposes. Nutrition-metabolism and special obesity/malnutrition clinics provide precise nutrition counseling and dietary regulation for people with obesity, malnutrition, anorexia nervosa, cerebral infarction and cerebral hemorrhage, autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children, gestational diabetes, chronic kidney disease, eczema, psoriasis, anxiety and depression, severe diarrhea and constipation, insomnia and other conditions. Overview of research and teaching: The department regularly organizes and undertakes provincial- and municipal-level continuing-education programs on standardized application of enteral and parenteral nutritional support and training courses on standardized nutrition-department development. It supervises and guides graduate students, visiting trainees and interns in clinical nutrition from China and abroad. It has independently or jointly trained 7 master's students, participates in multidisciplinary team (MDT) activities for tumors, fatty liver, IBD, oral tumors and other conditions, and regularly holds nutrition salons in various formats. The department has obtained 5 research-fund projects, including 1 Danone Foundation project, 2 provincial science and technology projects and 2 Shenzhen research-fund projects. It holds more than 10 utility-model patents and has published nearly 40 papers and monographs, including 8 SCI articles; its staff have served as chief or contributing editors for several monographs.