Endocrinology

Since its establishment in 2000, the Department of Endocrinology of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine has been a discipline integrating clinical care, teaching, scientific research, and management. The department currently has a work team with comprehensive knowledge of internal medicine, solid professional expertise, and a well-structured talent echelon. The department has 37 medical and nursing staff members, including 17 practicing physicians in the traditional Chinese medicine category, accounting for 75% of all practicing physicians. It has 2 professors, 2 associate professors, 1 doctoral supervisor, 5 chief physicians, 4 deputy chief physicians, 17 master's degree holders, and 19 nurses. It is currently a key specialty under the 11th and 12th Five-Year Plans of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a key endocrinology discipline of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, one of the specialties of a national drug clinical trial institution, a master's training department for endocrinology in traditional Chinese medicine and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine at Xinjiang Medical University, the hospital-wide intensive blood glucose management center, and a 365 Health Education Base. The department mainly treats diabetes, diabetic complications, thyroid diseases, adrenal-pituitary diseases, gonadal diseases, and other conditions, including difficult and critical illnesses such as mitochondrial diabetes, hypercalcemic crisis, adrenal crisis, thyroid storm, adrenal adenoma, pituitary tumor, anterior pituitary hypofunction, adrenocortical insufficiency, hyperparathyroidism, hypoparathyroidism, Bartter syndrome, Liddle syndrome, renal tubular acidosis, inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion, acromegaly, Klinefelter syndrome, diabetes insipidus, osteomalacia, osteogenesis imperfecta, Sheehan syndrome, obesity, gout, polycystic ovary syndrome, and perimenopausal syndrome. It operates three endocrinology specialist clinics, one joint specialized thyroid clinic, and one general endocrinology clinic; the outpatient clinic for screening, prevention, and treatment of diabetic complications includes specialized clinics such as the diabetic foot clinic. The department currently has a number of specialized devices, including a relatively advanced domestic continuous glucose monitoring system, a hospital-wide blood glucose management system, insulin pumps, peripheral vascular Doppler equipment, and foot diagnostic boxes. The department has a research group with 12 medical and nursing staff members. For a long time, it has emphasized research related to the treatment of endocrine diseases with traditional Chinese medicine. Based on this research direction, it has successively obtained 4 regional projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, 1 joint-fund project of the Natural Science Foundation of the autonomous region, 7 general projects of the Natural Science Foundation of the autonomous region, 1 youth project of the Natural Science Foundation of the autonomous region, 1 key project, 4 general projects, and 2 youth-fund projects of a national key laboratory jointly established by the province and ministries, 4 projects funded by the Scientific Research Innovation Fund of Xinjiang Medical University, and has participated in 2 national major special projects. It has published more than 40 high-quality academic papers in China and abroad, including 4 SCI papers. The research achievement of Wen Tong Huo Xue Cream, “Mechanistic Study of a New Traditional Chinese Medicine Method for Treating DPN,” received the Second Prize of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Science and Technology Progress Award in 2019; the research achievement of the Tangshen Enema Formula, “Exploring the Mechanism of the Effect of Chinese Herbal Enema on Microinflammation in Diabetic Kidney Disease Based on the Toll-Like Receptor 5 Signaling Pathway,” received the Second Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated with Xinjiang Medical University in 2021. The department is divided into six professional study groups: the Traditional Chinese Medicine Advantages Group, Thyroid Group, Intensive Blood Glucose Management Group, Diabetic Foot Group, Bone Metabolism Group, and Pituitary-Adrenal Group. At a professional level, these groups have developed regulated and standardized diagnosis and treatment processes for endocrine and metabolic diseases, earning recognition from peers in the field and patients.