Department of Osteoarticular and Sports Trauma

The Department of Bone and Joint and Sports Trauma, Renji Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, is a nationally renowned comprehensive orthopedic disease treatment center specializing in bone and joint, sports-related, and trauma diseases, integrating prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and scientific research. The discipline has more than 170 beds, provides over 250,000 outpatient visits annually, performs nearly 12,000 operations annually, and receives over 600 million annual clicks for its public science education; the wards of the Eastern and Western campuses have three subspecialties—joint surgery, sports medicine, and trauma—while the Southern Campus ward has four—joint surgery, sports medicine, spine, and trauma. The department’s artificial hip and knee joint replacement, robotic surgery, hip- and knee-preservation, minimally invasive arthroscopic treatment, minimally invasive treatment of spinal diseases, and treatment of complex fractures and trauma, among other technologies, have all reached international standards. The discipline has 2 national-level talents, 1 national-level young talent, 3 chief scientists under the National Key R&D Program, 1 chief scientist for a Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) open-competition project, 5 doctoral supervisors, 7 master’s supervisors, and 32 chief and associate chief physicians; it is authorized to confer master’s and doctoral degrees and provide postdoctoral training for Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. In recent years, department members have led more than 50 projects, including the National Key R&D Program, MIIT open-competition projects, subprojects of the National 863 Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, key projects of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology, major research projects of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Health and Family Planning, and projects under the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission’s Peak and Plateau Discipline Development Plan, with total research funding exceeding RMB 100 million. The discipline has achieved significant research results in technologies and fields related to joint surgery and sports trauma; it has published more than 260 papers in authoritative international and domestic academic journals, including more than 200 SCI papers, compiled more than 50 orthopedic textbooks and monographs, and its members have applied for and obtained authorization for more than 80 patents. It has received such scientific and technological awards on multiple occasions as the “Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award,” “First Prize for Outstanding Scientific Research Achievements of the Ministry of Education,” “Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award,” “Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award,” “Shanghai Medical Achievement Award,” and “Second Prize of the Chinese Medical Science and Technology Award.” Department members have successively held academic positions including executive committee members and national committee members of the Sports Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; national committee members of the Sports Medicine Physicians Branch and the Orthopaedics Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; national committee members of the Joint Surgery Group and Arthroscopy Group of the Orthopaedics Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; deputy chair of the Geriatric Bone and Joint Disease Branch of the Chinese Association for Geriatric Health Care Medicine; vice president of the Chinese Knee Surgery Society; vice president of the China section of the International Cartilage Repair Society; standing committee member of the Medical Metals Branch of the Chinese Society for Biomaterials; chair and deputy chair of the Sports Medicine Branch of the Shanghai Medical Association; deputy chair of the Hand Surgery Branch of the Shanghai Medical Association; chair of the Professional Committee on Clinical Innovation and Translation in Joint Surgery of the Shanghai Research Hospitals Association; president of the Shanghai Society of Rehabilitation Medical Engineering; vice president of the Sports Physicians Branch of the Shanghai Medical Doctor Association; and deputy chair of the Joint Disease Branch of the Shanghai Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, among other academic positions. Members have successively led or been selected for programs and honors including the “National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars,” “Ministry of Education Chang Jiang Scholars,” “NSFC Excellent Young Scientists Fund,” “Outstanding Discipline Leaders of Shanghai,” “Shanghai Distinguished Young Medical Talents,” “Shanghai Shuguang Program,” “Shanghai Young Science and Technology Star Program,” “Shanghai Outstanding Young Medical Talents Training Program,” “Shanghai Chenguang Program,” “Shanghai Young Science and Technology Talents—Yangfan Program,” “Shanghai Young Physicians Training Support Program,” “Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Peak and Plateau Discipline Development Plan,” “Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Hundred Talents Program,” “Shanghai Municipal Health Commission Silver Snake Award (Second Prize),” “Shanghai Youth May Fourth Medal,” “Outstanding Young Professional of Shanghai Huangpu District,” “Shanghai Jiao Tong University Zhongying Young Scholars,” “Shanghai Jiao Tong University Outstanding Young Professional,” and “Outstanding Young Teacher of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine,” among others.