Reproductive Medicine
The Department of Reproductive Medicine comprises clinical services for women and men, laboratories and nursing. It has a clinical director and separate laboratory and nursing leads, with specialists in female and male infertility, reproductive endocrinology, nursing and psychology. In 2008 it was approved as the Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine and was among the province’s first key medical and health laboratories.
The department has outpatient clinics, an andrology laboratory, a human assisted reproduction laboratory, operating rooms and other units for assisted reproductive procedures. Its services include diagnosis and treatment of infertility and female endocrine disorders, hysterosalpingography, hysteroscopy, various semen examinations and assisted reproductive technologies.
In recent years the team has led projects under the National Key Research and Development Program, a central government program supporting local scientific and technological development, the National Natural Science Foundation and other provincial or ministerial research programs. It has received seven provincial or ministerial science and technology awards, published dozens of SCI-indexed papers and edited several academic books. It teaches for Shandong University and Shandong First Medical University, has two doctoral supervisors and has trained doctoral and master’s students. The team aims to support the reproductive health of couples planning pregnancy through rigorous science, standardized management and responsible care.