Central Campus Pediatric Urology Surgery Ward

Established in 1995, the Pediatric Urology Department at Shandong Provincial Hospital reports 22 open beds and 18 medical and nursing staff, including three chief physicians, three associate chief physicians and one attending physician. It is a master’s and doctoral training site for Shandong First Medical University and a postdoctoral research station of Shandong University, with two doctoral supervisors, one postdoctoral supervisor and three master’s supervisors.

The hospital describes it as one of China’s earlier pediatric urology specialties, with prominent clinical and innovation capabilities in Shandong and nationally. It began pediatric minimally invasive laparoscopy in 1998. It routinely performs complex procedures for pediatric urinary malformations, solid tumors and urinary trauma. Its experience includes laparoscopic surgery for duplex kidneys, laparoscopic pyeloplasty, ureteral reimplantation under pneumovesicum, lymphatic-sparing laparoscopic varicocele surgery, and hypospadias repair and urethral reconstruction. The hospital describes these services as leading provincially and advanced nationally.

Research includes mechanisms, multimodal assessment and cohort follow-up of hypospadias, and metabolomics of nephroblastoma. The department reports two National Natural Science Foundation grants, one China Postdoctoral Science Foundation grant, eight Shandong natural science foundation and key research and development projects, and one open project from Shandong University’s National Engineering Research Center for Assisted Reproduction and Eugenics and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology. It has published over 50 SCI-indexed papers, participated in 16 national guidelines and expert consensus documents, edited or contributed to over 10 books and obtained four patents.