Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases

The Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases of the Affiliated Provincial Hospital of Shandong First Medical University was established in 1979. It is currently a National Clinical Key Specialty of the National Health Commission, a National Key Laboratory for Advanced Drug Delivery Systems, a Key Laboratory of Endocrine, Glucose and Lipid Metabolism and Brain Aging of the Ministry of Education, a Level-3 Laboratory of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Shandong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases, the Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Aging, the Shandong Provincial Engineering Technology Research Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, the Shandong Provincial Quality Control Center for Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, the Shandong Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, the Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Comprehensive Prevention and Control of Rare Diseases in Medicine and Health, and the Engineering Research Center of Shandong Provincial Institutions of Higher Learning, among others. It has built a nationwide collaborative network for the clinical diagnosis and treatment and scientific research of endocrine and metabolic diseases, established platforms for smart healthcare, big data, biobanks, research translation, and the promotion of appropriate technologies, and set up 10 clinical subspecialty groups: diabetes, thyroid, osteoporosis, obesity, rare endocrine and metabolic diseases, hypothalamic-pituitary diseases, adrenal diseases, gonadal diseases and growth and development, hyperuricemia/gout, and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

The department has a high-level talent team, including 39 clinical professionals and technical personnel and 22 scientific research professionals, of whom 60 hold doctoral degrees and 38 hold senior professional titles. It has 4 recipients of national-level talent titles, 1 recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Category A), 1 Young Expert of the Thousand Talents Plan, 1 recipient of the Excellent Young Scientists Fund project (Overseas), 1 recipient of the National Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand Talent Project, and 2 recipients of the title of Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions; 3 national-level society presidents/vice presidents, 3 group leaders/deputy group leaders, and 2 standing committee members/committee members; 5 provincial-level society presidents and 7 vice chairpersons; 2 experts of the Taishan Scholars Climbing Plan, 6 Taishan Scholars, 16 Taishan Scholars Young Experts, 1 Shandong Provincial Excellent Young Scholar, and 1 Shandong Provincial Young and Middle-aged Expert with Outstanding Contributions.

The department has strong scientific research capabilities and has received 2 second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 National Innovation Competition Award, 1 Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology and Technological Progress Award, 1 Tan Jia-zhen Clinical Medicine Award, 1 Wu Jieping-Paul Janssen Medical and Pharmaceutical Award, 1 China Youth Science and Technology Award, 1 second prize of the Science and Technology Award of the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine, 2 Chinese Medical Science and Technology Awards, 1 Shandong Provincial Highest Science and Technology Award, 1 first prize of the Shandong Provincial Natural Science Award, 8 first prizes and 14 second prizes of the Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. It has undertaken more than 300 research projects, including 17 major projects under the National Science and Technology Support Program, the “863” Program, the “973” Program, and the National Key Research and Development Program; 5 major research programs and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China; 1 Category A project and 1 Category B project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Scientists Fund; and 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China Excellent Young Scientists Fund project (Overseas). It has published more than 1100 academic papers, including 543 indexed by SCI. It has published 56 academic monographs and organized the development of and participated in the compilation of 84 guidelines and expert consensuses. It has been granted 25 invention patents, of which 4 have been transferred, and 5 utility model patents.

The department has strong teaching faculty and currently has 14 doctoral supervisors and 29 master’s supervisors from Shandong University and Shandong First Medical University. Over the past 10 years, it has trained and graduated 97 doctoral students and 264 master’s students, supplying the national and regional healthcare sector with a large number of highly qualified specialized professionals.