Traditional Chinese Medicine

The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Renji Hospital, Affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, is a “Famous Department” of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Pudong New Area, a national-level Famous Veteran Traditional Chinese Medicine Physician Studio, and a Base for the Inheritance of Characteristic Techniques of the Shanghai Acupuncture School. The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine has always placed patients’ life safety first; on the basis of inheriting the academic experience of its predecessors, it conducts in-depth exploration, takes diseases as the center, develops the construction of characteristic subspecialty disciplines, improves core competitiveness, strengthens scientific research and talent team development, and builds advantageous Traditional Chinese Medicine disciplines. Since its establishment, the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Renji Hospital, Affiliated with Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, has continuously improved and strengthened its clinical, faculty, and scientific research capabilities. It is currently a clinical discipline of Traditional Chinese Medicine with strong technical capabilities and a solid clinical foundation. The department currently has 19 medical, technical, and nursing personnel, including well-known experts and scholars such as doctoral supervisors, master’s supervisors, professors, and associate professors. These include 1 Shanghai leading Traditional Chinese Medicine talent, 2 “Xinglin New Star” Traditional Chinese Medicine talents, and 1 “Pujiang Excellent Young Scholar” at Renji Hospital. It has also successively trained multiple doctoral and master’s graduate students in oncology, immunology, and gynecology. The Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine currently provides outpatient services at four campuses—the East Campus, West Campus, South Campus, and North Campus—including special-needs, specialist, disease-specific, and general outpatient clinics. Specialty outpatient clinics include subspecialties such as asthma, nephropathy, gynecologic oncology, and acupuncture and rehabilitation. The department develops characteristic subspecialty disciplines and clinically applies the “acupuncture-and-medicine kidney-tonifying and cycle-regulating method” to treat gynecologic endocrine diseases, and sequential Chinese herbal medicine therapy to treat postoperative patients with gynecologic tumors, improving patients’ quality of life, increasing survival rates, and prolonging disease-free survival; it applies the characteristic diagnosis and treatment technique of “the Du meridian as the site of disease” to treat chronic headache, dizziness, cough and wheezing, low back and leg pain, and other conditions. The department undertakes numerous national- and municipal/bureau-level scientific research projects, including National Natural Science Foundation of China projects, projects of the Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and “Jiao Tong University Star” projects, thereby enriching the substance of its scientific research. Its comprehensive level of medical care, education, and research has reached a leading level among Traditional Chinese Medicine departments nationwide.