East Campus Neurology Department 2

Our hospital’s Department of Neurology is a key specialty in Shandong Province. The Second Department of Neurology at the East Campus currently has 45 beds, 9 physicians, and 14 nurses. Its staff include 1 chief physician, 2 associate chief physicians, 1 doctoral supervisor, 1 Outstanding Young and Middle-aged Expert of the Ministry of Health, and 1 medical leading talent of Shandong Province; 100% of the young and middle-aged academic team hold postgraduate degrees. The department is headed by Professor Tan Lan, Vice President of our hospital and Director of our Brain Center, who is also our hospital’s academic leader in neurology. It currently has diagnostic and therapeutic equipment including 24-hour video EEG and magnetic stimulators.

The department’s scope of diagnosis and treatment includes cerebrovascular disease, epilepsy, dementia, movement disorders, and neuroimmunological and neuromuscular diseases. In terms of its research approach, the department has shifted from its previous clinical research model to a model combining clinical and basic research, continuously optimizing, reorganizing, and developing new research directions and fields. It has now established five research directions with distinctive features and clear strengths: research on the prevention and treatment of cerebrovascular disease; the pathogenesis and prevention and treatment strategies of refractory epilepsy; basic and clinical research on dementia and cognitive dysfunction; research on the prevention and treatment of movement disorders; and basic and clinical research on neuroimmunological and neuromuscular diseases.

Over the past 5 years, with the department serving as the corresponding institution, more than 70 papers have been formally published in foreign SCI-indexed core journals such as N Engl J Med (IF: 53.298), Prog Neurobiol (IF: 8.874), and Brain Res Rev. (IF: 10.342), with a total impact factor exceeding 300. The research findings have been cited more than 400 times by authors from the United States and several other countries in journals such as Nature Genetics (IF: 36.377) and Nat Rev Neurosci (IF: 26.483). The department has been specially invited to deliver reports at more than 20 international and domestic academic conferences, including the Annual Meeting of Neurology in Asia and Oceania and the Annual Meeting of Neurology of the Chinese Medical Association. It has participated in writing Advances in Clinical Chemistry (Vol.56), published by the world-renowned publisher Elsevier, and has achieved a certain degree of international influence. Department members are currently serving as principal investigators for more than 10 projects at various levels, including projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, key projects of the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, projects of the Shandong Medical Leading Talent Fund, and projects under the Shandong Medical and Health Research Program. Over the past 5 years, the research achievements have received more than 10 awards, including the second and third prizes of the Shandong Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of the Shandong Medical Science and Technology Progress Award, and the first and second prizes of the Qingdao Science and Technology Progress Award, making the department a basic and clinical research center for major neurological diseases with a certain level of competitiveness and renown.

The department is a postdoctoral research base of the postdoctoral mobile station for Clinical Medicine at Qingdao University, a training base for doctoral and master’s degree programs at Nanjing Medical University, the School of Medicine of Shandong University, the College of Medicine and Pharmacy of Ocean University of China, the School of Medicine of Qingdao University, Dalian Medical University, Weifang Medical University, and Taishan Medical University, and a standardized residency training base of Shandong Province. It undertakes undergraduate education year-round at Nanjing Medical University (including its seven-year program), the School of Medicine of Qingdao University, Dalian Medical University (including its seven-year program), Weifang Medical University, and Taishan Medical University. It has trained and supplied the country with a large number of talents and has become one of the important talent-training bases for neurology in our province.

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