Nephrology

West China Hospital of Sichuan University began providing hemodialysis in 1978. The Department of Nephrology was planned in 1980, established in 1983, and formally organized as a department in 1986. After 43 years of development, through the efforts of successive department directors, Professors Xu Guozhang, Yu Tinglong, Liu Xianrong, and Tao Ye, as well as all department colleagues, it has now developed into an academic echelon and medical-technical team that are united and collaborative, structurally sound, and sustainably developing. Guided by senior-generation experts, led academically by Professors Huang Songmin and Fu Ping, both former national Standing Committee members of the Chinese Society of Nephrology, and headed by Professor Fu Ping, department director and secretary of the department’s Second Party Branch; Professor Hu Zhangxue, deputy director of medical affairs and secretary of the department’s First Party Branch; Professor Shi Yunying, deputy director of scientific research; Professor Zhang Ling, deputy director of teaching; and Professor Tao Ye, director of the discipline; with Ma Dengyan, Chen Lin, Chen Zhiwen, Duan Difei, Wen Yi, Chen Chongcheng, Yuan Huaihong, Zhang Yingjun, and Wen Yue forming the nursing management team, and with young and middle-aged academic backbone personnel serving as its mainstay.