Clinical Nutrition

The Department of Clinical Nutrition of Renji Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine was established in 1998 and is a joint-construction unit for key medical disciplines of the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, a Chinese Clinical Nutrition Demonstration Unit of the Chinese Nutrition Society, an undergraduate teaching base of the Department of Nutrition of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, and a first-batch pilot unit for the construction of clinical nutrition departments and a second-batch demonstration unit for the construction of clinical nutrition disciplines of the Institute of Hospital Management Research of the National Health Commission. The department has 8 physicians, including 2 with senior professional titles (2 chief physicians), and 3 with doctoral degrees. It has 13 nutritionists, including 6 with intermediate professional titles; all nutritionists have obtained national registered nutritionist/nutrition technician qualifications. Clinical features: The department’s scope of practice covers all areas of nutrition, including parenteral and enteral nutrition, PN preparation, EN preparation, therapeutic diets, and foods for special medical purposes. Nutrition consultations, nutritional assessment, formulation of individualized enteral and parenteral nutrition treatment plans, three-level ward rounds, preparation of parenteral nutrition solutions, and infusion monitoring have all formed a scientific, standardized, and complete system. Patients seen in consultation mainly come from various clinical specialties and are critically ill patients, including those with multiple organ failure, short bowel syndrome, various gastrointestinal fistulas (enteric fistulas and biliopancreatic fistulas), severe lymphatic fistulas caused by various factors, gastroparesis after gastrointestinal surgery, severe pancreatitis and patients after surgery for pancreatic tumors, patients after Bricker’s surgery for bladder tumors, patients after surgery for aortic dissection, severe inflammatory bowel disease, small-intestinal malabsorption syndrome, severe craniocerebral trauma, dialysis treatment for renal failure, severe rheumatic diseases accompanied by intestinal failure, critically ill parturients, middle- and late-stage tumors accompanied by cachexia, very elderly people accompanied by malnutrition, and dysphagia caused by various diseases (after radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, etc.). Research features: Related research is conducted in the areas of obesity, critical illness, tumors, transplantation, and inflammatory bowel disease. The department has successively undertaken 17 provincial-, ministerial-, and bureau-level projects. It has published 135 papers in core journals and 47 SCI papers, with a total impact factor of 229 points, a highest single-paper impact factor of 13.8 points, and a total number of citations >1200. The department has served as chief editor of 1 book and contributed to 25 books. Our department has successively been honored with titles including the “March 8 Red Flag Collective” of the School of Medicine of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai’s “Women’s Civilized Post,” the Shanghai Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese “Public Welfare Contribution Award,” and the Chinese Nutrition Society’s “2017 Advanced Department in Nutrition Discipline Development.” In 2002, it received the third prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award; in 2008, the Chinese Medical Doctor Association’s “Advanced Clinical Nutrition Work Unit”; and in 2010, the third prize of the Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award. In 2011, it received the “China Clinical Nutrition Demonstration Unit” title from the Clinical Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Nutrition Society and the “March 8 Red Flag Collective” title from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; in 2012, it received Shanghai’s education system “Women’s Civilized Post”; in 2015, it received the “Shanghai Overseas Chinese Community Public Welfare Contribution Award”; in 2016, it received Shanghai’s “Women’s Civilized Post”; in 2017, it received the “2017 Advanced Department in Nutrition Discipline Development”; in 2019, it received the “Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award Achievement Promotion Award”; and in 2024, the Renxin Renshu Award.