Pharmacy Dept.

Departments

Pharmacy Dept.

Brief introduction

Since established in 1950, the Department of Pharmacy of Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, takes the clinical pharmaceutical service as dominant role and has developed into a comprehensive department integrating the functions of medical treatment, teaching and scientific research. It is the State Key Specialty Construction Entity of Clinical Pharmacy, the Clinical Medicine Research Center of Precise Medication for Major Diseases of Hubei Province and Training Base of Medical Leading Talent of Hubei Province, as well. In 2019, the clinical pharmacy rankings place the department 4th among the hospitals nationwide (the version of Fudan University).


The department is composed of 4 divisions located in the Main Campus, West Campus, Cancer Center and Jinyinhu Campus, respectively. At present, there are 186 staffs, including 21 with senior professional titles, 13 supervisors of Doctorate or Master's candidates, and more than 60% with Master degree or above. The department provides a modern and intelligentized pharmacy with an improved high efficiency for drug dispensing. It also has the largest and first-class Pharmacy Intravenous Admixture Services (PIVAS) equipped with the first fully automatic intravenous dispensing robot in Hubei Province. Moreover, it has a modern and intelligentized standard preparation center integrating with research, manufacturing, and production for Chinese and Western medicine preparations. Until now, it has developed 59 preparations, which provides more alternatives for clinical medication. In addition, the department initiated the joint outpatient service between clinical pharmacist and other medical teams. It developed the management systems for cancer patients' medication and nutrition through mobile technology. And it was the first to carry out the precision pharmaceutical services based on individualized drug treatment, such as the therapeutic drug monitoring and the gene detection.


In recent years, the department accelerates the process of internationalization, and has established communicative and collaborative relationships with several universities, such as University of Marburg and University of Manchester. And it sponsored the national training management of clinical pharmacy branch of Chinese Medical Association. As of December 2020, it has trained 236 clinical pharmacists from 143 hospitals in 21 cities. Moreover, it taught the classes of Clinical Phannacotherapeutics and Pharmacokinetics for international students of Tongji Medical College, and has trained 21 postgraduate students in recent three years.It also sponsored the annual "Yellow-Crane Forum", providing an academic exchange platform for pharmacists.


As for the scientific researches, the department directed 32 NSFC projects, and the other 50 research funds. Approved by CNAs/ISO 17025 laboratory, the clinical pharmacology laboratory has undertaken 112 Phase-I clinical trials, including 12 of class-I new drugs. The related research achievements have won First Prize for one time and Second Prize for three times of Hubei Science and Technology Progress Award. Up to the present, more than 180 SCI papers have been published, including 40 papers in Q1 of JCR, and more than 300 papers have also published in Chinese authoritative journals. Furthermore, it has also edited 6 textbooks and monographs and participated in the editing of the other 9 textbooks. Additionally, it obtained 7 national invention patents and 5 software copyrights, and enacted three expert consensus documents. At present, the department has one chairman, four vice-chairmen, five committee members and 17 members in the national committee, while it has three chairman, three vice-chairmen, five committee members and eight members in the provincial committee. And ten staff from the department hold the post of editor-in-chief, associate editor or editorial board members of several journals.