Reproductive Surgery Department

Reproductive Surgery performs hysteroscopic and laparoscopic surgeries primarily focused on “protecting female fertility” and performs minimally invasive surgeries for uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, endometriosis, uterine cesarean-section scar diverticula, female infertility, reproductive-tract malformations, intrauterine diseases, early gynecologic malignancies, and other conditions; among these, single-port laparoscopy, scarless vNOTES, da Vinci robotic surgery, and Level IV hysteroscopic reconstructive surgery are the department’s signature procedures. The ward has a total of 39 beds, with approximately 42000 outpatient visits and approximately 4500 operations per year.

The department is a doctoral degree-granting site of Tongji University; it currently has 14 physicians at the attending-physician level or above, including 6 with senior professional titles and 4 with intermediate professional titles; all hold master’s degrees or higher. Department Director Sun Jing is a Shanghai Leading Talent and an expert receiving a special allowance from the State Council; as the first person responsible for completion, she previously led the team to win the Second Prize of the 17th Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award for 2018, the Achievement Promotion Award of the Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award for 2021, and the Third Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award for 2022.

The department combines clinical and basic research and, to date, has a total of 11 projects, including the Shanghai Leading Talent Project and Youth Fund projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, among others, and has published nearly 100 papers, including SCI papers and papers in core journals. Director Sun Jing is editor-in-chief of the monograph 《Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome》 and deputy editor-in-chief of the monograph 《Gynecologic Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery》; she has contributed to 8 books, participated in translating 《Williams Gynecology》, and contributed to 2 clinical guidelines and 7 expert consensus documents.

The department currently has 1 doctoral/postdoctoral supervisor. Each year, it accepts 10 physicians for further training. Each year, it conducts 2 national-level continuing education programs; over the past 5 years, it has hosted 5 hysteroscopic surgery training courses and a total of 18 single-port laparoscopic surgery training courses.

The department places great emphasis on international exchange, holds 1 Shanghai Regional Conference of the Asia-Pacific Association for Gynecologic Endoscopy and Minimally Invasive Therapy each year, has successfully hosted 7 editions of the APAGE&SFMIH (Asia-Pacific–First Maternity and Infant Health Hospital) International Forum, has successfully secured the right to host the 2025 APAGE Annual Meeting, and Sun Jing, the department director, will serve as co-chair of the 2025 APAGE Annual Congress; this will also be the first time that an annual meeting of an international gynecologic minimally invasive organization is held in Shanghai.