Clinical Nutrition

Tongji Hospital, as a regional national-level center for the diagnosis and treatment of difficult and critical diseases, is the first pilot hospital in Hubei Province for a standardized clinical nutrition department under Ministry of Health standards. Since its department was established in 2010, it has long been committed to the construction and development of the discipline, continuously achieving breakthroughs in clinical diagnosis and treatment, academic exchange, and technical cooperation, and has become a clinical nutrition specialty in Hubei Province with strong technical capabilities, comprehensive equipment, and standardized diagnostic and treatment procedures, fully playing the radiating and leading role of a regional center. As the affiliated institution of the Hubei Provincial Clinical Nutrition Quality Control Center, it is responsible for professional guidance, quality management, and technical supervision of the clinical nutrition services of medical institutions throughout the province; it has twice been awarded the title of Outstanding Quality Control Center of the province, promoting the construction and development of clinical nutrition departments throughout Hubei. The Department of Clinical Nutrition currently has 1 professor and chief physician, 2 associate chief physicians, 2 associate chief technicians, 2 attending physicians, 1 resident physician, and 5 nutrition technicians, including 8 doctoral degree holders and 9 registered dietitians. It is responsible for nutritional risk screening and assessment for all hospital patients; it provides therapeutic diets and enteral and parenteral nutritional support therapy. It has subspecialties in medical nutrition weight reduction, oncology nutrition, chronic disease nutrition management, women's and children's nutrition, and surgical perioperative nutrition, as well as a nutritional metabolism laboratory. Internally, it actively cooperates with all clinical disciplines, strengthens the concept of nutritional therapy, and improves the comprehensive treatment of patients with difficult and critical diseases; externally, it builds the brand of Tongji Hospital's Department of Clinical Nutrition, focuses on developing the Weight Management Center and the chronic disease nutrition management outpatient clinic, has become a national training base for the nutrition discipline integrating medical care, education, and research, and offers the elective course 《Clinical Nutrition》 in undergraduate clinical medicine teaching. The independent nutritional metabolism laboratory is mainly responsible for the testing of nutrients and metabolites, gastrointestinal function evaluation, organ function evaluation, rapid testing of food nutrient content, and other work. With discipline development as its core and scientific research innovation as its driving force, the department emphasizes talent cultivation and the development of a tiered team. The discipline leader is Yao Ying (姚颖), chief physician, second-level professor, doctoral supervisor, and one of the first nationally registered dietitians. She is currently an expert in the Expert Working Group for the Clinical Nutrition Program of the Institute of Medical Administration of the National Health Commission; chair of the Clinical Nutrition Special Committee of the China Association for Promotion of Human Health Science and Technology; executive council member of the Chinese Nutrition Society; vice president of the Nutrition and Food Safety Branch of the Chinese Society of Geriatrics; vice chair of the Drug Diet Branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine; vice chair of the Medical Food Branch of the China Nutrition and Health Food Association; leader of the Nephropathy Nutrition Collaboration Group of the Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; and deputy editor-in-chief of the textbook 《Clinical Nutrition》, the 10th-round planning textbook for five-year undergraduate clinical medicine programs at national higher education institutions, among other positions. The team she leads has received such honors as the first batch of “Clinical Nutrition Department Construction Demonstration Units” nationwide, a Top Ten Team on the first China Nutrition Trend List of the Chinese Society of Geriatrics, a Top Ten position for comprehensive influence of clinical nutrition departments in Chinese hospitals awarded by the Chinese Nutrition Society, an Advanced Unit for Clinical Nutrition Discipline Development awarded by the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, a Medical Weight Management Demonstration Unit awarded by the China Healthcare International Exchange and Promotion Association, a Demonstration Training Center for the National Health Commission's Research Project on Chronic Kidney Disease Management Models, and a Nutrition Specialist Nurse Training Base of the Chinese Nursing Association. It has completed or is conducting 7 General Program projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 3 Young Scientists Fund projects, and 1 subproject of a key supported project under a Joint Fund; 1 major fund project of the Ministry of Education and 2 provincial-level fund projects; and it has received the Second National Innovation and Excellence Award Certificate and the second prize of the Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. The research team focuses on intestinal microecology and explores the feasibility of probiotics regulating the “gut-kidney axis” to delay the progression of acute and chronic kidney disease; the research results were published in the journal Cell Metabolism. It has served as editor-in-chief or contributing editor for the compilation of multiple nutrition guidelines, consensuses, monographs, and popular science series; over the past 5 years, it has published 54 papers, 49 of which are indexed in SCI, with a total impact factor of 197 points.