Shanghai East Hospital () is a general hospital in

Pudong Pudong is a district of Shanghai located east of the Huangpu, the river which flows through central Shanghai. The name ''Pudong'' was originally applied to the Huangpu's east bank, directly across from the west bank or Puxi, the historic city ...

Shanghai Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...

, China. It is a

teaching hospital A teaching hospital is a hospital or medical centre that provides medical education and training to future and current health professionals. Teaching hospitals are almost always affiliated with one or more universities and are often co-located ...

affiliated to

Tongji University Tongji University () is a comprehensive public research university located in Shanghai. Established in 1907 by the German government together with German physicians in Shanghai, Tongji is one of the longest-standing, most selective, and most pr ...

Facilities

The Shanghai East (Oriental) Hospital, affiliated to

Shanghai Tongji University School of Medicine Tongji University School of Medicine (TUSM) is a school of Tongji University in Shanghai. The main campus of TUSM is located on Siping campus at 50 Chifeng Rd, Yangpu, Shanghai. History Tongji University School of Medicine was founded in 19 ...

was founded 1920. Two campuses exist in

. The main campus ('Northern Division') is located in

Lujiazui Lujiazui, also known under its Shanghainese name Lohkatse (, , lit. meaning " heLu (surname 陸), Lu family's mouth"), is a locality in Shanghai, a peninsula formed by a bend in the Huangpu River. Since the early 1990s, Lujiazui has been dev ...

, Pudong, 150 Jimo Road and the South-Campus ('Southern Division') is located in Pudong, 1800 Yuntai Road. Both locations include 61 clinical and technical departments and offices. The hospital includes 2000 in-patient beds total. The hospitals fields of work include medical procedures,

disease prevention Preventive healthcare, or prophylaxis, consists of measures taken for the purposes of disease prevention.Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental hea ...

medical education Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, including the initial training to become a physician (i.e., medical school and internship (medical), internship) and additional training thereafter (e.g., Re ...

and medical research. Both campuses employed 2800 staff members in 2019, including about 400 attending medical doctors. The hospital annually serves more than 3 million walk-in and emergency patients, amongst them are 40000 international patients. The hospital has a 64-row spiral CT machine, Flash CT, PET-CT, 3.0 T MRI, DSA, or EDGE Radiosurgery Systems available within the radiology department. The surgical departments offer Hybrid Operation Rooms, circulatory-assist devices, LINAC, ECT and real-time 3D color ultrasound.

Key disciplines

Disaster medicine Disaster medicine is the area of medical specialization serving the dual areas of providing health care to disaster survivors and providing medically related disaster preparation, disaster planning, disaster response and disaster recovery lead ...

*Heart failure therapy *

Cardiac surgery Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to corr ...

*Cardiovascular medicine *Dental implantation and prosthodontics *Minimal invasive gallstone surgery *

Oncology Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the study, treatment, diagnosis and prevention of cancer. A medical professional who practices oncology is an ''oncologist''. The name's etymological origin is the Greek word ὄγκος (''ó ...

treatment *Cerebral-vessel disease treatment *Anorectal surgery *Cranial tumor surgery

Notable professors

*Dr.

Barry J. Marshall Barry James Marshall (born 30 September 1951) is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. Marsh ...

, Nobel Prize Winner 2005, Director of the Marhall International Diagnosis and Treatment Centre for Digestive Diseases

Education and training

The Shanghai East Hospitals Education Office is responsible for the domestic education of the undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students of

. The medical students are educated by 96 doctoral tutors and 140 master tutors. In 2010, the hospital has established an 'International Clinical Elective Program' in cooperation with German physicians and MedoPolo International Medical Elective Programs. The hospital currently offers the largest international medical student elective program within mainland China and receives roughly 80 - 100 students from all countries annually.MedoPolo International Elective Programs
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Scientific research platforms

*Laboratory of Arrhythmia of Ministry of Education *Translational Medicine Center for Stem Cell Research of Zhangjiang *National Stem Cell Bank *Shanghai Heart Failure Institute *Shanghai Municipal Stroke Center

Rankings

*Comprehensive Disease Treatment Index in Shanghai: Number 8 (2016) *Science and Technology Impact in China: Number 68 (2016) *Nature Index: Number 8 (2017) *National Natural Science Foundation of China: Number 20 (2017)

Foreign cooperations

*Sino-German Heart Research Institute, cooperating with the German Heart Center in Berlin (DHZB) (2001). *Sino-American International Hospital *Sino- Japanese Senmao Clinic *Sino-French Urological Surgery Center *Sino-American East-Anderson Tumor Center *Sino-American Emergency Research Institute

References

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