Pharmacy Department (including Clinical Pharmacology Room)

The Department of Pharmacy of Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital is a comprehensive pharmaceutical support department integrating pharmaceutical procurement and supply, dispensing and preparation, medication management, clinical pharmacy, and scientific research and teaching. It comprises the Outpatient and Emergency Pharmacy, Tuberculosis Pharmacy, Inpatient Pharmacy, Yanqing Road Outpatient Department Pharmacy, Pneumoconiosis Department II Pharmacy, Central Medication Dispensing Station, Operating Room Anesthesia Pharmacy, Intravenous Admixture Center, Pharmacy Storehouse, Clinical Pharmacy Office, and other departments.

The Department of Pharmacy upholds the hospital motto “Excellence in Medicine, Esteem for the Way, Pragmatism and Innovation,” carries forward the hospital’s core values of “humanized service and professional management,” and adheres in all its work to the principles of “patient-centeredness and quality as the core.” It closely integrates the needs of medical care, teaching, and scientific research, and completes the hospital’s pharmaceutical work related to medication supply, dispensing, monitoring of adverse drug reactions, medication consultation, clinical pharmacy, pharmaceutical training, and other areas. In all its work, it strictly complies with the Drug Administration Law and relevant laws and regulations, establishes and improves a medication quality assurance system, and effectively ensures the safety and efficacy of clinical medication use.

Our hospital has distinctive strengths in respiratory specialty diagnosis and treatment. It provides a complete range of medications required for the treatment of respiratory diseases and has multiple distinctive in-house preparations, such as Zhi Kuo Yang Yin Granules and Zhi Kuo Yang Yin Tablets, which have good clinical efficacy and high patient satisfaction. A specialty pharmaceutical clinic has been established, with extensive experience in pharmaceutical services for chronic respiratory diseases, lung cancer, lung transplantation, pulmonary arterial hypertension, tuberculosis, and other conditions. In cooperation with the Department of Thoracic Surgery, the department conducts therapeutic drug monitoring, including monitoring the blood concentrations of immunosuppressive anti-rejection drugs in lung transplant patients, thereby providing a basis for clinical medication use, reducing adverse reactions, and improving the survival rate of lung transplantation.

At present, the department has 1 chief pharmacist, 3 deputy chief pharmacists, 21 pharmacists-in-charge, 4 postdoctoral fellows and PhD holders, and 8 master’s degree holders. Its talent team is well established, and the discipline has considerable development potential. In recent years, it has received 1 National Natural Science Foundation of China Young Scientists Fund project, 2 provincial- and ministerial-level projects, and 1 municipal talent program; received 1 award for an advanced collective in national pharmaceutical information work, 1 Shanghai Outstanding Information Management Award, 2 awards for advanced individuals in Shanghai pharmaceutical information work, 1 nomination for Outstanding Clinical Pharmacist in Shanghai, and 2 awards for outstanding trainees in the Shanghai Clinical Pharmacist Faculty Training Program. It has also received honorary titles including Shanghai Outstanding Service Demonstration Window, Shanghai Health and Wellness Industry Youth Civilization Unit, Advanced Collective in Shanghai Rational Drug Use Publicity and Education Activities, and Shanghai Rational Drug Use Demonstration Unit.

Over the past 5 years, the department has published more than 30 papers, including 10 SCI papers, with a total impact factor of 40.605 points. It has developed professional strengths focused on inhaled medications, lung transplantation medications, medications for pulmonary tumors, clinical use evaluation of tuberculosis medications, and pharmaceutical services.

In the years to come, the Department of Pharmacy will always take quality as its core and clinical pharmacy as its foundation, providing patients with safe, effective, and economical pharmaceutical services!