Neurosurgery

The Department of Neurosurgery of Renji Hospital was founded in 1956. It is a National Clinical Key Specialty of the Ministry of Health, a national key discipline under construction for the Ministry of Education’s “211 Project”, and a national key discipline (cultivation) of the Ministry of Education. It has the Walter E. Dandy Neurosurgery Training Center and the Pujiang Training Center of the Asian Federation of Neurosurgeons. The Department of Neurosurgery has consistently adhered to a people-oriented approach, taken clinical medical safety as its basic principle, featured multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment, emphasized the comprehensive development of medical care, education, and research, and focused on advancing the refinement, specialization, and individualization of the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases. It has established subspecialties including endoscopic minimally invasive surgery, hybrid surgery, cerebrovascular disease, functional neurosurgery, spine and spinal cord surgery, and pediatric neurosurgery; it has accumulated extensive experience in brain tumor microsurgical and endoscopic techniques, comprehensive treatment of cerebrovascular disease, refractory epilepsy and movement disorders, neurocritical care, and spine and spinal cord care. The overall scale and capabilities of medical services and diagnosis and treatment, talent development, and academic standards are at an advanced level domestically. The Department of Neurosurgery of Renji Hospital Affiliated to the School of Medicine of Shanghai Jiao Tong University has 125 open beds (including 19 NICU beds), 38 officially established physicians, 91 nurses, 3 technicians, and 1 full-time researcher. The department also has a group of outstanding young talents who have received the China Qiu Shi Outstanding Young Scientist Award, been recognized as Young and Middle-aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions by the Ministry of Health, and been selected as Shanghai Medical Leading Talents, Shanghai Science and Technology Elites, recipients of the Shanghai “Silver Snake Award”, Shanghai “New Stars in Medicine”, Shanghai “Morning Stars”, Shanghai “Double-Hundred” Talents, Shanghai “Excellent Young Scientists”, the “Wang Zhongcheng Chinese Outstanding Neurosurgeon Award”, and the “Wang Zhengguo Trauma Medicine Award—Innovation Award”, among others. In 2023, outpatient and emergency visits totaled 35,000, annual discharges totaled 3,400, and nearly 3,100 operations were performed, of which more than 2,100 were Grade III and IV operations. According to the key disease statistics of the Shanghai Shenkang Hospital Development Center, for glioma and meningioma, the Department of Neurosurgery of Renji Hospital ranked second for 5 consecutive years (2017-2022); its epilepsy program was selected in 2019 as one of the first batch of national Grade III comprehensive epilepsy centers. Over the past 3 years, 12 National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, 7 projects of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology, 2 projects of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, and 3 Shanghai Shenkang projects, among others, have been approved, with applied funding totaling more than RMB 8 million. In recent years, the Department of Neurosurgery has received 1 Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 Second Prize of the Huaxia Medical Science and Technology Award, 1 First Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 First Prize of the Ministry of Education Science and Technology Progress Award, and 1 Second Prize of the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award, as well as multiple other medical achievement awards. It holds 1 invention patent and more than 10 utility model patents. It has published more than 300 papers, with a total impact factor exceeding 550 points, including more than 90 papers with an impact factor >5. More than 60 articles and research papers have been published in internationally renowned journals, including Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Neuro-Oncology, Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurosurgery, Journal of Neurotrauma, Journal of Neurochemistry, and Journal of Neuroinflammation. The Department of Neurosurgery has strong medical, teaching, and research capabilities, a rationally structured talent echelon, and a strong academic atmosphere. It is currently entering a period of rapid development and, through the efforts of several generations, will be built into a major domestic neurosurgical clinical diagnosis-and-treatment and research center with a certain degree of international recognition and influence. October 2024 department group photo; department core team