Shanghai · Naval Medical University
Changzheng Hospital
(海军军医大学长征医院)
Changzheng Hospital of Naval Medical University. It comprises 47 functional departments, 35 clinical departments, 12 auxiliary diagnostic departments, and 20 clinical teaching and research divisions, with 28 disciplines authorized to confer doctoral degrees and 33 to confer master's degrees, and runs a postdoctoral clinical program.
The hospital has 10 national key disciplines, 4 all-army medical research institutes, 6 all-army specialized medical technology centers, 2 leading key medical disciplines of Shanghai, and 2 Shanghai clinical medical centers; it serves as the all-army key laboratory for laboratory diagnostics and as a national and military base for clinical drug trials.
The hospital has a powerful talent pool: 244 specialists with senior professional titles, including 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, 1 participant each in the National Thousand Talents Plan and the Changjiang Scholars chair professorship, 3 recipients of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 11 serving professors of grade three or higher, 47 recipients of the special State Council allowance, and 6 specialists recognized by the General Political Department and the Ministry of Personnel as young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions.
The hospital has six traditionally strong areas — orthopedics, neurosurgery, nephrology, urology, plastic surgery, and emergency care — and has developed nine new medical specializations: organ transplantation, minimally invasive treatment, treatment of orbital tumors, early cancer diagnosis and treatment, diagnosis and treatment of myeloma and lymphoma, treatment of sleep disorders, treatment of diabetes and osteoporosis, diagnosis and treatment of fungal diseases, surgical trauma, and diagnosis and treatment of carotid artery stenosis and aneurysms of the great arteries.
Leading specialists · 7
Jia Lianshun (贾连顺)
chief physician, professor, doctoral supervisor
A national-level expert with outstanding contributions and the founder of cervical spine surgery in China; main areas — cervical spine disorders, craniovertebral anomalies, and complex and severe spinal conditions.
Yuan Wen (袁文)
chief physician, professor, doctoral supervisor
Former head of the spine surgery department; specializes in cervical spine disorders, degenerative lumbar spine conditions, spinal deformities, and complex spinal injuries; a benchmark spine specialist in China.
Xiao Jianru (肖建如)
chief physician, professor, doctoral supervisor
Head of the bone tumor department and director of the All-Army Orthopedics Research Institute; a nationally recognized authority on spinal tumors; the country's leading specialist in surgery for primary and metastatic spinal tumors.
Ren Shancheng (任善成)
chief physician, professor, doctoral supervisor
Recipient of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and a Changjiang Scholar; the country's leading specialist in robotic surgery for prostate cancer; performs minimally invasive treatment of kidney and bladder cancer at the highest level.
Min Zhilian (闵志廉)
chief physician, professor, doctoral supervisor
A patriarch of urology in China; a highly experienced specialist in kidney transplantation, complex urolithiasis, and urinary tract tumors.
Mei Changlin (梅长林)
chief physician, professor, doctoral supervisor
China's number one specialist in polycystic kidney disease and a leading figure in nephrology; a nationally recognized authority on chronic nephritis, uremia, hereditary kidney diseases, and lupus nephritis.
Hou Jian (侯健)
chief physician, professor, doctoral supervisor
An authority on multiple myeloma in China; specialist in lymphomas and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.