Clinical Nutrition

The Department of Clinical Nutrition at Ruijin Hospital was established in 1995. It is an emerging discipline that was among the first in China to be established as a dedicated department specializing full-time in clinical nutrition education, treatment, and research. Under the leadership of Professor Cao Weixin, the discipline’s academic leader, inaugural department director and founder, a doctoral supervisor and expert in clinical nutritional support in surgery, it has developed nutritional support for gastric cancer as its distinctive specialty, promoted standardized concepts of nutritional support for cancer, and independently or collaboratively received several science and technology progress awards at various levels and of various types. The Department of Clinical Nutrition regards nutritional health as its mission, brings together kindness and compassion, pursues excellence, and provides health management throughout the entire life cycle. With “clinical nutrition, nutritional clinical care” as its guiding principle, it uses professional techniques including enteral and parenteral nutritional support and medical nutrition therapy, focusing on nutritional treatment and public education for gastrointestinal tumors, inflammatory bowel disease, sarcopenia, diabetes, and obesity. In recent years, it has successively received honorary titles including “National Advanced and Outstanding Team in Nutritional Science,” “Advanced Institution for Parenteral Nutrition,” and “Advanced Collective in Pandemic Prevention and Rehabilitation.”