Introduction
The Department of Gastroenterology of Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital is a comprehensive discipline that integrates medicine, education and research. It is one of the first national standardized residency training bases for physicians, the specialist training base for digestive diseases in Shanghai, and the national GCP (Good Clinical Practice) base for digestive diseases. It offers general outpatient services, specialty clinics, expert consultations, VIP services, and international medical services. The specialty clinics include diagnosis and treatment of chronic liver diseases, intestinal diseases, gastroesophageal reflux disease, bile and pancreatic diseases, intestinal dysfunction diseases, digestive endoscopy, and standardized diagnosis and treatment of Helicobacter pylori infection.
The discipline is divided into sub-disciplines such as gastric cancer and precancerous diseases, gastrointestinal endoscopy, hepatobiliary and pancreatic diseases, difficult small intestinal diseases, gastrointestinal dysfunction and inflammatory bowel disease. It boasts renowned experts in the field of gastroenterology such as Professor Zhu Jinshui, Professor Wan Xinjian, and well-known domestic experts including Chen Weixiong, Chen Niwei, Kong Wuming, Zhang Jing, Chang Ying, Wang Long, Sun Qun, Qu Guoqiang, Liu Yuan, as well as a group of exceptional experts named Jin Yong, Da Wei, Chen Wei, Shen Bo, Chen Dafan, Guo Jinghui, Liao Xiangwei , Dong Zhixia, Wang Ruhua, Zheng Haiming, Zhu Li, Yao Huixiang, Yin Quan, who are committed to providing high-quality diagnosis and treatment technology and first-class services to patients every week.
Specialties
Currently, there are 6 distinctive sub-disciplines: gastric cancer and precancerous diseases specialization, small intestinal difficult disease specialization, interventional digestive endoscopy specialization, gastrointestinal dysfunction specialization, hepatobiliary and pancreatic disease specialization, and inflammatory bowel disease specialization. Particularly in the clinical diagnosis, treatment, and basic research of early gastrointestinal tumors and challenging small intestinal diseases, the department operates at the forefront of both national and international levels. The diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal endoscopy, and the treatments of severe pancreatitis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and other chronic liver diseases with integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine are unique. We have rich experience in clinical diagnosis and treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease, inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome.
In 2013, the Department of Gastroenterology made history by being the first domestically and internationally to apply robotic smart capsule endoscopy to diagnose and treat challenging small intestinal diseases, including "chronic abdominal pain, diarrhea, and unexplained bleeding." This achievement was presented at both the Chinese Medical Association Digestive Disease Annual Conference and the National Digestive Disease Conference of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine. In 2019, we obtained a national patent for this innovation and were invited to deliver a special report at Digestive Disease Week (DDW) in the United States. Our groundbreaking work was recognized with the DDW Outstanding Paper Award.
