Endocrinology

The Department of Endocrinology of Xuanwu Hospital was established in 1965 under the leadership of Liu Chuandi, a renowned endocrinology specialist and department director. After 60 years of development, under the leadership of Directors Xing Weichang, Wang Li, Xiu Shuangling, Gao Shan, and Sun Yu, the discipline has developed rapidly and has gradually been built into a clinical diagnosis and treatment and basic research center for endocrine and metabolic diseases, with comprehensive subspecialty groupings, a wide range of diseases, and work covering medical care, education, and research.

The department currently has 12 doctors, including 1 national-level young talent, 2 doctoral supervisors, and 3 master's supervisors; 5 chief physicians, 5 deputy chief physicians, 1 attending physician, and 1 resident physician. The proportion of personnel who have obtained doctoral degrees is 75%. There are 6 nurses, including 1 diabetes specialist education nurse and 1 geriatric specialist nurse, forming a young, vigorous, well-structured, and highly qualified medical and nursing team.

The discipline adheres to a development framework centered on outpatient services, wards, and examination rooms. It addresses common, frequently occurring, difficult, and rare diseases of the endocrine system. It has 30 open beds, and its outpatient services are divided into specialist clinics, disease-specific clinics, and general clinics, with a total of more than 140,000 outpatient visits per year. It has established specialized clinics for comprehensive weight management, diabetes health management, pituitary diseases, thyroid diseases, adrenal diseases, geriatric osteoporosis, and the prevention and treatment of diabetes complications.

As a National Health Commission training base for endocrinology specialists and a Beijing standardized residency training base, the Department of Endocrinology of Xuanwu Hospital trains each year a group of professional and technical personnel with solid knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine diseases. It also undertakes the teaching of master's and doctoral students in the five-year program, extended-duration program, professional degree program, and academic degree program of Capital Medical University. The department undertakes multiple national- and provincial/municipal-level research projects and has achieved a series of important research results in the pathogenesis and clinical diagnosis and treatment of endocrine system diseases.