Cardiovascular Surgery Dept.

Departments

Cardiovascular Surgery Dept.

Brief introduction

Established in 1980, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery of Union Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology is the Chinese first-class medical center, which integrates medical treatment, education, and research.


The department is a national clinical key specialty, the first batch of authorized institutions to offer master and doctoral degrees, and national key research programs grant holding institution. It also serves as the national training base for cardiovascular surgeons, cardiac transplant surgeons. Among the last ten years, the department has won many national honors. In 2011, it has become one of the first national key clinical specialties in China. In 2013, it has been awarded the title of ‘Great Love and Medical Heart’ forits contributions.


Strong technical force. Currently, there are 64 physicians. Among them, 25 have senior titles, including 1 academician in Chinese Academy of Engineering, 4 national second-level professors, 2 national third-level professors, 8 doctoral supervisors, 2 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions to the National Health Commission, 1 deputy chairman of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery branch in Chinese Medical Association, 1 vice chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery branch in Chinese Physicians Association and 5 deputy chairmen of National Professional Committee of Chinese Society/Association.


Exquisite clinical practice. With more than 4000 surgeries annually, it performs not only all the surgical procedures in the Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment Guidelines for Cardiovascular Surgery, but also serves the patients with complex disease. More than half of them are difficult and critical cases. Based on traditional experience, it keeps up with the international frontier and carries out a series of difficult operations: more than 500 surgeries per year for newborns (≤ 5 kg and/or ≤ 3 months old); more than 500 surgeries per year for great vessels; the prognosis of infants’ severe congenital heart disease and aortic dissection has come to international leading level; more than 100 heart transplantation were performed per year in the last 5 years, with the most cases in China reaching world leading medium and long-term survival rate; more than 700 surgeries per year of minimally invasive surgeries, with perioperative survival rate of 100%; great breakthroughs in the fields of severe valvular disease and severe coronary heart disease, with perioperative survival rate of 98.5% for valve surgery and 98.9% for coronary heart disease, which come to the world leading level and achieve remarkable social and economic benefits.


Outstanding talent training. The department has more than 5 physicians study abroad every year. It also serves more than 20 exchange experts and scholars from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Japan every year. In the past three years, 3-5 doctors had conference speech in the international conferences, meanwhile, 10-20 doctors had conference speech in the domestic meetings. 8 doctors who won the first prizes for outstanding young papers of Asian or Chinese Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Association. Over 100 PhDs, 200 masters and 300 postgraduate students have been trained.18 international and national academic conferences have been held in the past three years.


Remarkable achievements in scientific research. The research achievements of heart valve disease, heart and heart-lung transplantation, vascular disease have reached the international advanced level. In the past five years, it has 30 national funding supports, including the Major and Key program of National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc. In the past 10 years, it also has won one of the second prize of the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award, five of the first prize of Hubei Province Scientific and Technological Progress Award, and one of the first prize of Scientific and Technological Progress Award in Ministry of Education. In the past 5 years, more than 400 papers have been published, including 160 cited by SCI database. Also, the staff have participated in 5 monographs and 4 textbooks compiled by the National Health Commission and the Ministry of Education.


"Cardiovascular Surgery Department of the Union Hospital, the hope of the heart". The department inherits the fine tradition of "Unity, Dedication, Practicality, and Innovation". It will remain true to its original aspiration, stay firm in its great mission, go forward courageously, and create bright future.