Ultrasound Medicine

The Department of Ultrasound Medicine of Renji Hospital Affiliated to the School of Medicine of Shanghai Jiao Tong University is a National Key Clinical Specialty, a Shanghai Municipal Key Discipline, a master's and doctoral degree training site of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, a clinical trial institution for medical devices, and a national-level standardized residency training base (ultrasound specialty). It currently has 39 physicians, including 4 chief physicians, 10 associate chief physicians, 1 doctoral supervisor and 4 master's supervisors. Eighty-six percent of the physicians in the department hold postgraduate degrees (28% doctoral, 58% master's). The department director, Professor Jiang Lixin, currently serves as a member and head of the interventional group of the Ultrasound Medicine Branch of the Shanghai Medical Association, president-elect of the Ultrasound Branch of the Shanghai Association of Integrative Medicine, vice president and council member of the Chinese Association of Ultrasound in Medicine and Engineering, vice chair of the First and Second Specialized Committees on Tumor Ultrasound Therapy of the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association, vice president of the Third Session of the Ultrasound Equipment Technology Branch of the Chinese Association of Medical Equipment, and deputy head of the Ultrasound Therapy Group of the Ultrasound Medicine Expert Committee of the National Capacity Building Center. The department's medical ultrasound equipment is excellent, with more than 20 high-end color Doppler ultrasound diagnostic systems. The department has strong clinical strength; its ultrasound diagnosis and interventional treatment are currently at the leading domestic level, with an annual examination volume of more than one million cases, and an annual volume of about 6,000 cases of contrast-enhanced ultrasound and ultrasound-guided puncture intervention. It carries out abdominal organs, superficial small organs, blood vessels, musculoskeletal, andrology, cardiac, interventional ultrasound and other programs, fully meeting clinical needs and serving patients as much as possible. The sub-specialty groups and research directions are complete, including: ① ultrasound diagnosis of male infertility and the urogenital system; ② perioperative ultrasound monitoring and evaluation of liver and kidney transplantation; ③ gastrointestinal ultrasound diagnosis; ④ musculoskeletal and neurological ultrasound diagnosis; ⑤ ultrasound diagnosis of endocrine and metabolic diseases; ⑥ ultrasound diagnosis of cardiac diseases; ⑦ contrast-enhanced ultrasound of clinical diseases; ⑧ interventional ultrasound diagnosis and treatment; ⑨ ultrasound diagnosis of superficial organs such as the thyroid and breast; ⑩ pediatric ultrasound diagnosis, etc. In particular, the specialty feature of ultrasound diagnosis of male infertility has considerable influence internationally and domestically. In recent years, under the leadership of department directors Professor Li Fenghua and Professor Jiang Lixin, the department has closely followed the frontiers of the discipline, carried out a number of projects and achieved a number of results: it has participated in international academic conferences for exchange many times (AFSUMB; RSNA; ECR); it has received titles and talent program projects such as Outstanding Discipline Leader, Top-notch Project of the Oriental Talent Program, Medical Garden New Star, Rising Star and Sailing; it has cumulatively undertaken 13 National Natural Science Foundation projects and more than 30 provincial and ministerial/bureau-level research projects; and it has published more than 200 SCI papers and papers in Chinese core journals. It has served as chief editor of the monograph “Dynamic Ultrasonographic Atlas of Male Infertility” (1 volume), reprinted in 2021; as chief editor of the monograph “Fetal Echocardiography” (1 volume); as associate chief editor of more than 20 monographs; and has participated in the compilation of the medical undergraduate course textbook “Medical Imaging Diagnostics”. It has been awarded the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, the Second Prize of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award, the Third Prize of the Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award and the Third Prize of the Huaxia Medical Science and Technology Award.