Pulmonology Department

The Department of Pulmonary Disease · Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine (PCCM) of Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a clinical department integrating medical care, teaching, and scientific research, engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory system diseases mainly through traditional Chinese medicine and through integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. It is a key specialty of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a key clinical specialty of Shanghai, an outstanding PCCM institution, and a member of the respiratory specialty medical alliance of the National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases. It is the leading institution of the Shanghai TCM Respiratory Alliance, the Shanghai TCM Pulmonary Disease Professional Quality Control Group, and the Pulmonary Disease Specialty of the Shanghai TCM Eastern Alliance; a member of the TCM Internal Medicine disciplines designated as key disciplines by the Ministry of Education and Shanghai Municipality; a member of the Shanghai Key Clinical Laboratory of TCM Internal Medicine; the chair institution of the Respiratory Diseases Professional Committee of the Shanghai Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine; and an advanced collective in Shanghai’s health system. In recent years, it has actively responded to the call of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to provide assistance to Tibet, Qinghai, Xinjiang, and Yunnan, and has repeatedly received high praise. During the prevention and control of SARS, H1N1 influenza, COVID-19, and other epidemics, it leveraged the distinctive strengths of traditional Chinese medicine and made outstanding contributions.

The Department of Pulmonary Disease has a long history of scientific and technological research. It participated in the national collaborative effort to tackle chronic bronchitis in the 1970s and has undertaken eight national-level projects, including key research and development programs of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the National 973 Program, and National Natural Science Foundation projects. It has published approximately 200 papers, served as chief editor of six monographs and textbooks, obtained four patents, and achieved one technology transfer. It has successively received eight awards, including a Grade A award from the Ministry of Health, science and technology achievement awards from the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine and the China Association of Chinese Medicine, and science and technology progress awards from the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government.

The Department of Pulmonary Disease has 38 beds and includes a respiratory intensive care unit, a pulmonary function laboratory, a bronchoscopy room, the Huang Jigeng Shanghai Famous TCM Doctor Studio, a TCM Respiratory Disease Research Office, and a TCM Respiratory Disease Laboratory. There are five chief physicians and four associate chief physicians; one doctoral supervisor and three master’s supervisors; nine doctors with doctoral degrees and five with master’s degrees. A clinical team with a high level of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine and strong professional capabilities has been formed. The discipline leader, Professor Zhang Wei, is a national outstanding TCM clinical professional, a Shanghai leading TCM professional, and a Shuguang famous TCM doctor.

After years of inheritance and development, the PCCM of the Department of Pulmonary Disease of Shuguang Hospital has developed distinctive strengths in pulmonary infections, pulmonary interstitial fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer (small pulmonary nodules), chronic cough, and other diseases. It has 10 in-house preparations and 16 TCM treatment technologies; annual outpatient visits exceed 200,000, annual discharges exceed 2,000, total annual income exceeds 100 million yuan, and its patients come from both China and abroad. In particular, the annual “winter disease treated in summer” program exceeds 200,000 visits and is highly distinctive and advantageous in traditional Chinese medicine, ranking among the best.