Otolaryngology

【Department Establishment History】 The Department of Otolaryngology was established in 1982, 【Department Honors】 It is currently a unit for the development of a key traditional Chinese medicine specialty in Guangdong Province, a characteristic traditional Chinese medicine specialty in Shenzhen, a unit whose representative serves as vice chair of the Otolaryngology Branch of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, a unit whose representative serves as vice chair of the Otolaryngology Branch and the Branch of Folk Diagnostic and Therapeutic Technology Research of the China Association of Chinese Medicine, a unit whose representative serves as vice chair of the Professional Committee for Otolaryngological Drug Research of the China Association of Chinese Materia Medica, a unit whose representative serves as vice chair of the Otolaryngology Branch of the Guangdong Association of Chinese Medicine, a unit whose representative serves as vice chair of the Otolaryngology Branch of the Guangdong Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, and a unit whose representative serves as chair of the Otolaryngology Professional Committee of the Shenzhen Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. 【Department Leadership】 Professors Xu Hongqing, Zhou Chuanli, and Li Hao successively served as the department’s administrative directors and made outstanding contributions to its development. Since 2015, Professor Liu Yuanxian has served as the department’s administrative director. 【Research Scope】 The department is dedicated to the integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment, research, and teaching of specialty diseases including snoring disorders (adenoid hypertrophy, chronic tonsillitis, macroglossia, etc.), tinnitus, hearing loss, and vertigo (sensorineural hearing loss, Ménière’s disease, vestibular neuritis, otolithiasis, etc.), nasal diseases (allergic rhinitis, sinusitis, nasal polyps, nasopharyngeal carcinoma), and pharyngeal, laryngeal, and voice disorders (including vocal cord polyps, laryngeal papilloma, laryngeal cancer, and pharyngolaryngitis). In 2023, the discipline ranked 31st nationally. 【Department Operations】 The department currently has 3 outpatient clinics and 2 wards. It has 60 available beds and a medical and nursing team of 58 people, including 1 famous traditional Chinese medicine physician in Guangdong Province, 2 famous/excellent traditional Chinese medicine physicians in Shenzhen, 1 doctoral supervisor, and 2 master’s supervisors; it handles more than 120,000 outpatient visits and more than 2,000 discharges annually. It operates specialty clinics for allergic rhinitis, snoring disorders, tinnitus and hearing loss, vertigo, and other conditions, and is dedicated to addressing otolaryngological diseases. With support from Shenzhen’s Medical and Health “Three Famous” Project, the department introduced the team of Professor Ruan Yan from the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine to improve its specialty’s clinical and research capabilities; to promote the inheritance of the academic thought of renowned senior traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, the department established the “Xujiang Medical School”--the Studio of Professor Xie Qiang, a nationally renowned veteran traditional Chinese medicine physician. To fully leverage the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, the department developed a series of in-house preparations and agreed prescriptions, including Nasal Desensitization Ointment, Heart-Nourishing Kidney-Benefiting Ear-Improving Ointment, Yin-Nourishing Throat-Soothing Ointment, Spleen-Strengthening Snoring-Relief Ointment, Jingming Cong’er Formula, Biyuan Tongqiao Formula, Biqiu Zhiliu Formula, Compound Menthol Nasal Drops, and Sodium Bicarbonate Ear Drops. The department has a vertigo diagnosis and treatment chair, a STORZ high-definition nasal endoscope, a LAICA operating microscope, a low-temperature plasma surgical system, a XiON electronic nasopharyngolaryngoscope, a Lumenis CO2 laser surgical system, and a fully equipped integrated consultation room imported from Germany. For the specialty diseases it treats, it performs otolaryngological surgeries, such as tympanoplasty, radical mastoidectomy, surgery for ear cholesteatoma, and endoscopic minimally invasive surgery for chronic rhinitis, deviated nasal septum, nasal polyps, sinusitis, and nasal cavity tumors. It performs plasma ablation for adenoid hypertrophy in children. It performs laser and plasma minimally invasive surgery for adult snoring disorders, vocal cord polyps, laryngeal papilloma, laryngeal cancer, and other conditions. It performs artificial stapes implantation, cochlear implantation, lateral skull-base tumor surgery, and other procedures. It undertakes teaching for The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The University of Hong Kong, and Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. It has successively led and completed more than 10 provincial- and municipal-level research projects. It served as chief editor of 3 monographs published by People’s Medical Publishing House and Science and Technology Press: Handbook of Essential Knowledge and Skills for Clinical Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Otolaryngology, Characteristic Traditional Chinese Medicine Therapies for Common Otolaryngological Diseases, and Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Treatment of Allergic Rhinitis; it contributed to the People’s Medical Publishing House 14th Five-Year Plan textbook Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Otolaryngology, and contributed to 5 other monographs. It serves as deputy editor-in-chief of the core journal Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine in Otolaryngology. Integrating Chinese and Western medicine to treat difficult diseases, with benevolent hearts and skilled medicine to protect the people. Looking to the future, the department will take the development of a “National-Level Key Specialty” as its goal and deepen coordinated development in “medical care, education, research, and industry.” With patients at the center, it will practice the core philosophy of “respect, universal love, inheritance, and innovation” and create a “precise, whole-cycle, and compassionate” medical service system. 【Department Group Photo】