Ophthalmology

[Department Establishment History] The Department of Ophthalmology was established in 1975.

[Department Honors] Inheritance and Promotion Base for Academic Schools of Traditional Chinese Medicine under the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (the Shenzhen Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Workstation of the Yanjing Wei Ophthalmology Academic School Inheritance Studio).

[Department Leadership] Professors Yan Zonglian, Zhang Jingxuan, Xu Weihua, Yao Xiaoping, and Shen Zhihua successively served as the department’s administrative directors and made outstanding contributions to its development.

[Research Scope] The department is committed to the prevention and control of myopia among adolescents and to the diagnosis and treatment, using both Chinese and Western medicine, of refractory dry eye, allergic conjunctivitis, various refractory fundus diseases, and optic nerve diseases such as ischemic optic neuropathy, retinitis pigmentosa, and optic atrophy, as well as to research and teaching in these areas. The discipline ranks 32nd nationwide.

[Department Operations] The department currently has 2 wards, 22 open beds, and a medical and nursing team of 25 people, including 1 high-level medical talent in Shenzhen, 3 provincial- or municipal-level academic inheritors of renowned TCM practitioners, and 2 supervisors of master’s students; its annual outpatient volume exceeds 50,000 visits. It runs dedicated outpatient clinics for specific diseases, including a myopia prevention and control clinic, a specialty clinic for visual fatigue and dry eye, a diabetic retinopathy clinic, and an orbital disease and ocular plastic surgery clinic, among others. It has introduced the following teams: the “five-senses” department team of Professor Ruan Yan of the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine under Shenzhen’s “Three Famous Medical and Health Project”; the team of Qihuang Scholar Professor Peng Qinghua; the team of Professor Duan Junguo, a renowned TCM practitioner of Sichuan Province; and the team of Professor Wei Qiping of the Yanjing Wei Ophthalmology Academic School, further strengthening its specialty capabilities! To fully leverage the advantages of TCM, the department has developed a series of in-house preparations and agreed-upon prescriptions, including chalazion ointment, hordeolum ointment, heat-clearing and mass-dispersing ointment, and the Mimenghua formula; patients seeking care come from all over the country. The department has participated in more than 10 projects at various levels, including major science and technology special projects and national evidence-based medicine research projects. Its research funding exceeds RMB 2.4 million. It has won 1 second prize for provincial scientific and technological progress and published more than 100 professional papers in domestic and international academic journals. It has developed into a leading traditional Chinese medicine ophthalmology … in the Lingnan region.

“Yinhai Jingwei”: treating eye diseases; “Shenshi Yaohan”: safeguarding the light.

Looking ahead, the department will aim to build a key specialty at the municipal and provincial levels and deepen coordinated development in medical care, education, research, and industry. With the classics of traditional Chinese medicine as its foundation, it will bring Chinese and Western medicine together, combine them with advanced modern examination equipment, and further develop techniques for diagnosing and treating eye diseases; with patients at the center, it will put into practice the TCM humanistic care of “efficacy as the foundation and service with utmost sincerity,” creating a medical service system that is “precise, whole-course, and warm.”

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