Endocrinology

The Department of Endocrinology is a participating institution in the development of the National Regional Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine Endocrinology, a national clinical key specialty in TCM endocrinology, and a key endocrinology specialty under the ‘12th Five-Year Plan’ of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is also a Shanghai clinical key specialty in TCM endocrinology and a Shanghai advantageous specialty in TCM diabetes.\n\nIt has 40 specialty beds, nearly 120,000 outpatient visits annually, and more than 2,900 discharges annually. Its medical, teaching, and research strength is substantial, with 5 chief physicians, 4 deputy chief physicians, 1 doctoral supervisor, 8 master's supervisors, and 8 academic successors in national famous veteran TCM physician studios.\n\nMembers have successively been selected for the ‘Second National Class for Inheriting the Academic Experience of Veteran TCM Experts’; the ‘Third Batch of National Outstanding TCM Clinical Professionals’; Shanghai Municipal Commission of Science and Technology Rising Stars; Shanghai TCM leading talents; Shanghai outstanding young medical professionals; Shanghai Xinglin New Stars; Pudong New Area TCM leading talents; Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine reserve experts; and other programs.\n\nMembers serve as deputy chairperson of the Diabetes Branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine; vice president of the Diabetes Branch of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies; vice president of the Endocrinology Professional Committee of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies; chairperson or deputy chairperson of the Diabetes Branch of the Shanghai Association of Chinese Medicine; deputy chairperson of the Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases Branch of the Shanghai Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine; and committee member of the Diabetes Branch of the Shanghai Medical Association.\n\nIt has received 35 research projects, including projects for specialty construction, among them 1 project under the National 11th Five-Year Plan Science and Technology Support Program, 7 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 14 Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology projects, and 6 Shanghai Municipal Education Commission projects. It has published 74 papers, including 6 SCI papers and 68 Chinese core-journal papers. It has participated in compiling 5 monographs and received second and third prizes for scientific works from the China Association of Chinese Medicine. It regularly holds national continuing-education courses and the Shuguang Forum on TCM Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases.\n\nIt mainly treats consumptive-thirst disease (diabetes) and its chronic complications. In particular, it has conducted in-depth research on common diabetic chronic complications such as consumptive-thirst tendon bi syndrome (diabetic peripheral neuropathy), consumptive-thirst gangrene (diabetic foot), and consumptive-thirst kidney disease (diabetic nephropathy), developed distinctive TCM diagnosis-and-treatment techniques, and created multiple in-house preparations and agreed prescriptions, which have achieved good clinical efficacy.