Endocrinology

Taikang Xianlin Gulou Hospital's Department of Endocrinology is a key specialty in Nanjing Municipality; under the leadership of Professor Wang Jian and Director Wang Yangtian, it has established a sound and well-developed talent structure. Currently, there are 22 medical and nursing staff members; these include 12 physicians, including 2 chief physicians, with 2 doctoral students and 10 master's degree holders among them; and 10 nurses, including 3 nurses-in-charge and 3 provincial/municipal-level diabetes specialist nurses. It currently has 53 beds, and its scope of disease diagnosis and treatment encompasses diabetes, dyslipidemia, osteoporosis, thyroid diseases, parathyroid diseases, pituitary diseases, adrenal diseases, and other common and complex endocrine diseases. It has established specialty clinics for osteoporosis and blood glucose management and for adrenal diseases, and also provides such specialized technologies as integrated in-hospital and out-of-hospital blood glucose management, plasma separation therapy for refractory hyperlipidemia, platelet-rich plasma technology for treating diabetic foot and skin ulcers, and multidisciplinary diagnosis and treatment of thyroid nodules.