Child Health Care

The Department of Child Health Care was established in January 2018. The current academic leader is Hao Yan. The discipline has 9 subspecialties: growth and development, child health care, pediatric nutrition, developmental and behavioral medicine, child psychology, early childhood development, pediatric motor rehabilitation, pediatric hearing and speech-language rehabilitation, and pediatric autism rehabilitation; and 6 laboratories and clinical centers: the Developmental and Behavioral Center, Child Health Care Center, Early Childhood Development Center, Child Rehabilitation Center, Child Hearing and Speech-Language Rehabilitation Center, and Child Autism Intervention Center. The discipline has 2 physicians with associate-senior professional titles and 1 master's supervisor. A total of 5 members hold principal or deputy positions in various international/Asian, Chinese (national), Hubei Provincial, and Wuhan municipal societies. Dr. Hao Yan currently serves as deputy head of the Developmental and Behavioral Group of the Pediatric Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; deputy head of the Collaborative Group for Standardized Development of Pediatric Language Outpatient Clinics; deputy head of the Child Health Care and Developmental and Behavioral Group of the Child Diseases and Health Care Branch of the Chinese Maternal and Child Health Association; standing committee member of the Speech Rehabilitation Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine; member of the Neural Translational Group of the Chinese Society for Physiological Sciences; member of the Child Health Professional Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; member of the Adolescent Neurodevelopment and Psychological Assessment Group of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; member of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Professional Committee of the Psychiatry Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; standing committee member of the Child Clinical Standards and Guidelines Professional Group of the Women’s and Children’s Health Clinical Standards and Norms Branch of the Chinese Maternal and Child Health Association; member of the First Child Health Care Alliance of the National Medical Center; member of the Infant and Toddler Psychology Special Committee of the Maternal and Child Health Research Association; head of the Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Group of the Pediatric Branch of the Hubei Medical Association; deputy chair of the Vaccine and Immunization Professional Committee of the Hubei Preventive Medicine Association; secretary-general of the Microecology Professional Committee and deputy chair of its Youth Group of the Hubei Preventive Medicine Association; and member of the Child and Adolescent Health Professional Committee of the Hubei Preventive Medicine Association. Dr. Chen Min currently serves as a member of the Child Health Care Group of the Pediatric Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a member of the Professional Committee for Vaccination of the Pediatric Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a member of the Child Health Promotion Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Society, a member of the Child Health Care Group of the Adolescent Medicine branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and a member of the Rehabilitation and Regeneration Group of the Eugenics and Prenatal and Postnatal Care Association of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association. Dr. Huang Shan currently serves as a member of the Youth Group of the Child Health Care Group of the Pediatric Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a youth member of the Child Diseases and Health Care Branch of the Chinese Maternal and Child Health Association, a member of the Pediatric Branch of the Medical Science Popularization Creation Professional Committee of the Hubei Popular Science Writers Association, and a member of the Vaccine and Immunization Professional Committee of the Hubei Preventive Medicine Association. Dr. He Tianyi currently serves as a member of the Professional Committee for Eugenics and Prenatal and Postnatal Care of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine and a member of the Preterm Infant Follow-up Group of the Chinese Eugenics Science Association. Zhao Jinzhu currently serves as a member of the Youth Group of the Developmental and Behavioral Group of the Pediatric Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, a member of the Fifth Committee of the Child and Adolescent Health Professional Committee of the Hubei Preventive Medicine Association, and a member of the Environmental and Social Eugenics Branch of the Chinese Eugenics Science Association. The diagnostic and treatment services offered by the discipline include: assessment of children's growth and development, growth and development monitoring, malnutrition, height promotion, scoliosis, diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychological developmental and behavioral disorders in children, intervention for autism spectrum disorder (rehabilitation treatment, biomedical methods, fecal microbiota transplantation), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (commonly known as hyperactivity disorder), learning difficulties, language developmental delay (language comprehension and expression), speech disorders (stuttering, unclear articulation, etc.), global developmental delay, intellectual disability, pediatric nutritional diseases (nutritional status, feeding and dietary guidance, monitoring and prevention and treatment of nutritional diseases, etc.), early comprehensive assessment of high-risk newborns, diagnosis, treatment and guidance for children's sleep problems, sensory integration dysfunction, emotional and behavioral problems in children, and diagnosis and treatment of genetic metabolic diseases. The department also provides early development services for high-risk children, rehabilitation training for children with speech and language disorders, rehabilitation training for children with autism spectrum disorder, and rehabilitation for torticollis, facial nerve palsy, brachial plexus injury, movement disorders in children, cerebral palsy, and orthopedic conditions such as scoliosis. The diseases treated particularly well include: delayed growth and development in children, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), learning difficulties, intellectual disability, speech and language disorders, tic disorders, rickets, nutritional anemia, malnutrition, short stature, feeding difficulties in children, children's sleep problems, and psychological and behavioral problems. In the past ten years, the discipline has received 2 achievements at municipal level or above: 1. 2015, Second Prize of the National Maternal and Child Health Science and Technology Award (ranked 8th), principal contributor Hao Yan; 2. 2010, First Prize of the Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (ranked 10th), principal contributor Hao Yan.