Neurosurgery

Qilu Hospital's Department of Neurosurgery was established in 1959 and was the first clinical specialty department of neurosurgery established in Shandong Province. Through the unremitting efforts of several generations, it has entered the ranks of the country's advanced neurosurgical departments. Its neurosurgical subspecialties are comprehensive and cover all neurosurgical diseases. It currently comprises nine sections: the neurosurgery outpatient clinic, the cerebrovascular disease ward, the neuro-oncology and pediatric neurosurgery ward, the functional neurosurgery and spine and spinal cord surgery ward, the neurosurgical intensive care unit, the Department of Neurosurgery at the Qingdao Campus, the neurosurgery laboratory, the neuroendoscopy training center, and the neuroanatomy and microsurgery training center. It has 260 open beds (including 60 at the Qingdao Campus), nearly 40,000 outpatient visits annually, more than 6000 patient admissions annually, and performs more than 5500 operations of various types each year.

Qilu Hospital's Department of Neurosurgery places great emphasis on external exchanges and has established long-term cooperative relationships with multiple neurosurgical centers in 7 countries, including the United States, Norway, the United Kingdom, and Australia; it has successively appointed more than 10 renowned neurosurgical experts from China and abroad—including Nobel Prize laureate Professor Edvard Moser and Academicians Zhou Liangfu and Zhao Jizong—as chair professors or honorary professors; it has hosted multiple international neurosurgical academic conferences, the 9th Academic Annual Meeting of Neurosurgery of the Chinese Medical Association, the 13th Annual Meeting of Neurosurgery of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, the International Summit Forum on Brain and Brain-like Science Research, the 1st Annual Meeting of Neurosurgical Intervention of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, the 8th China Neuromodulation Conference, the 13th Academic Conference of Neurosurgery of Six Provinces and One Municipality in East China, and other large-scale conferences, and has hosted on many occasions academic meetings including the Annual Meeting of Neurosurgery of the Shandong Medical Association and the Qilu Neurosurgery Forum. Since its establishment, it has continuously undertaken undergraduate teaching, clerkships, and internships for all programs of study at Shandong Medical College—Shandong Medical University—Shandong University; the annual number of postdoctoral fellows completing their postdoctoral appointments, doctoral graduates, and master's graduates exceeds 20. Since 1962, it has accepted physicians for further training and has to date trained more than 600 physicians from within and outside the province; it is one of the first-batch specialist physician training bases in neurosurgery designated by the Chinese Medical Doctor Association and the Shandong Provincial Neurosurgery Resident Physician Training Assessment Center, and annually enrolls 3—4 trainees in standardized specialist physician training and more than 10 trainees in standardized resident physician training. Relying on the strong platform of Shandong University and Qilu Hospital, the Department of Neurosurgery has undertaken more than 50 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and more than 50 projects at various levels, including major provincial- and ministerial-level special projects; newly added research funding exceeds 10 million yuan annually. It has received more than 80 science and technology awards of various levels and types, including the second and third prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award nominated by the Ministry of Education, the first-, second-, and third-prizes of the Shandong Science and Technology Progress Award, the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, and Shandong's Top Ten Scientific and Technological Achievements. It currently publishes approximately 50 or more academic papers of various types annually, of which 50 are indexed in SCI, with an average impact factor of over 5.

The Department of Neurosurgery of Qilu Hospital has formed a specialty with distinctive characteristics and an academic style of its own, enjoys a high level of recognition in China, and has made important contributions to the development of neurosurgery in China.