Surgery Department I, Team 2 (General Surgery II)

The Department of General Surgery II of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established in 2007 and developed in 2015. Under the leadership of Department Director Geng Zhongli, it upholds the concept of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine for treating surgical diseases involving the thyroid, breast, head and neck, and vascular system; advocates a combined approach of Western surgical treatment and internal and external traditional Chinese medicine therapies; and places particular emphasis on the use of Western external therapies, with significant therapeutic results. It is currently designated by the Chinese Research Hospital Association as the “National Training Base for Intraoperative Nerve Monitoring Technology for Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery (Xinjiang)”; it is designated by the Chinese Medical Doctor Association as the “National Training Base for Endoscopic Thyroid Surgery”; and it is a member institution of the Western China Breast and Thyroid Specialty Alliance. The department currently has 66 beds, receives more than 5,000 patient-visits annually, performs more than 3,000 surgical procedures annually, and records more than 20,000 outpatient visits annually. The numbers of patients admitted and operated on for thyroid malignancies and head and neck tumors, as well as the number of difficult cases, are second to none in Xinjiang and even in Northwest China. It has attained a nationally advanced level, particularly in the minimally invasive surgical treatment of thyroid diseases; the number of patients with breast malignancies and vascular diseases is also steadily increasing each year. The department currently has a total of 31 medical and nursing staff. These include 3 chief physicians, 4 associate chief physicians, 8 attending physicians, 2 doctoral students currently enrolled, 12 master’s degree holders, 5 nurse supervisors, 11 nursing specialists, and 2 nurses. It has 3 supervisors of master’s students; 1 person serves as a vice chairperson and 6 as committee members of a national thyroid society, and 5 are committee members of a provincial society.