Endocrinology

The Endocrinology Department ward has a total of 7 rooms, all set up as Grade B wards. Each room has 3-5 beds, and all are equipped with independent bathroom facilities, piped oxygen, wall-mounted suction devices, central air conditioning, a communication call system, IV stands, and bed curtains. There are also a meal preparation room, a hot water room, and a visitors’ room. The ward is clean and elegant, with strong characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, and is one of the hospital’s warm and welcoming wards. In addition to complete living facilities, it has modern Chinese and Western medicine examination, treatment, and emergency rescue equipment, including telemetry ECG monitors, 12-lead electrocardiographs, insulin pumps, dynamic blood glucose monitors, digital vibration perception threshold monitors, ES-100V3 Doppler ultrasound monitors, and others.

During the more than ten years since the establishment of the Endocrinology Department, it has achieved remarkable accomplishments. Under the leadership of Director Yang Hongjie, it has developed into a comprehensive discipline integrating medical care, teaching, and scientific research, with the characteristics of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. At present, the Endocrinology Department is a key discipline of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine of the Ministry of Health and the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Metabolic Disease Unit), one of the national drug clinical trial bases, one of the standardized residency training bases in Shanghai, and also a Grade A specialty department of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, undertaking the key disease category of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in Shanghai (metabolic syndrome). It has accumulated rich clinical experience in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, obesity, thyroid diseases, osteoporosis, and adrenal diseases. It is especially skilled in using integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine to treat diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and obesity, in follow-up and traditional Chinese medicine intervention for hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer, and in the treatment of polycystic ovary syndrome. It has its own various preparations and treats both the root and the branch. Physicians at all levels are proficient in thyroid puncture the use of specialized skills and advanced instruments and equipment such as insulin pumps. In long-term clinical and scientific research work, it has formed the following disciplinary characteristics: using the characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine to repair pancreatic islet β-cell function; using integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine to treat diabetic macrovascular and neuropathic complications as well as diagnostic puncture for thyroid diseases and traditional Chinese medicine immunotherapy for Hashimoto’s thyroiditis.

The department director, Yang Hongjie, male, chief physician, master’s supervisor, graduated from the Medical Department of Shanghai Second Medical University. He is a high-level clinical and scientific research training candidate in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in Shanghai and a judge for the Ministry of Health’s key discipline of endocrinology. He currently serves as Director of the Endocrinology Department of Yueyang Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is Chairman of the Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases Branch of the Shanghai Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Vice Chairman of the Diabetes Branch of the Shanghai Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a member of the Clinical Receptors Branch of the Shanghai Medical Association, a member of the Shanghai Diabetes Rehabilitation Association, a member of the Shanghai Medical Accident Appraisal Committee, and a judge for biomedical projects of the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission. He has long been engaged in the diagnosis and integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment of endocrine and metabolic diseases, and has accumulated rich clinical experience in the diagnosis and treatment of diabetes, obesity, thyroid diseases, osteoporosis, and adrenal diseases. He has undertaken multiple projects of the National 863 Program, the National Natural Science Foundation, the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission, the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and the Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau, and has published more than several dozen professional papers and participated in the compilation of multiple monographs.

The department has an energetic and vigorous academic team comprising both traditional Chinese and Western medicine professionals, with young and middle-aged clinicians as its main force. There are currently 9 clinical physicians in the department, including 2 chief physicians, 3 deputy chief physicians, and 4 attending physicians; the proportion of master’s and doctoral degree holders is as high as 90%. Senior professional titles account for 56% intermediate professional titles account for 44% and there are 2 master’s supervisors. Director Yang Hongjie of the department is a high-level clinical and scientific research training candidate in integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in Shanghai, and Deputy Chief Physician Zheng Min is an inheritor of the school tradition of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Other academic backbones in the department have been selected as candidates for cultivation as reserve professional experts of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and as young talent cultivation candidates of the hospital It is a team with academic advantages and competitive talent The department undertakes teaching tasks including postgraduate training at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, standardized residency training in Shanghai, and the supervision and teaching of clinical interns. Each year, it undertakes the teaching of Internal Medicine (Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases) at Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and clinical guidance for clinical interns of Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

In 2001, the department was granted a master’s postgraduate training site. It currently has 2 master’s supervisors and has trained nearly 20 master’s postgraduate students in total. It has Professor Wang Wenjian and Director Yang Hongjie as inheritance mentors, 2 growth mentors, and 3 teaching instructors. At the same time, in 2012 and 2013, the department successfully held for two consecutive years the national-level continuing education program “Basic and Clinical Research Progress in the Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Treatment of Insulin Resistance”.