General Surgery Center

Development history of the department: In September 2017, the then dean Wang Chen proposed the establishment of the Sino-Japanese Hospital Weight Loss Diabetes Health Management Center, and the center construction and renovation project was officially launched. It was completed and put into use in February 2019. The staff composition of the department: the director of the department is Meng Hua, and the head nurse is Yao Lin. The center currently has 6 surgeons, 2 internists, 1 nutritionist, 2 case managers, and 1 sports rehabilitation therapist. Outpatient clinics and wards: The department offers specialized outpatient clinics such as bariatric diabetes surgery, minimally invasive hernia surgery, gastroesophageal reflux surgery, male breast hyperplasia surgery, and abdominoplasty surgery. Features of diagnosis and treatment: The Metabolic Weight Loss Center (Weight Loss Diabetes Health Management Center) of the General Surgery Department of China-Japan Friendship Hospital is the first clinical medical center in the country that provides comprehensive diagnosis, comprehensive medical and surgical treatment, and lifestyle guidance for obese and diabetic patients. With the support of leaders at all levels of China-Japan Hospital and the help of various fraternal departments, Professor Meng Hua, as the leader of the center, leads the general medical staff and has completed more than 7,000 bariatric and metabolic surgeries such as symmetrical three-hole gastric sleeve and symmetrical three-hole gastric bypass surgery. At the same time, he also carried out laparoscopic abdominal wall hernia, minimally invasive gastrointestinal tumor surgery, male breast hyperplasia and other related treatments.Professor Li Guangwei, the chief endocrinologist at China-Japan Hospital, is a distinguished professor of this center and a major participant in the Daqing Diabetes Prevention Research, a milestone in primary prevention of diabetes in the world. He has devoted himself to research on the reversal and treatment of diabetes for more than 50 years and is responsible for the training of young doctors in the department and ward rounds for difficult cases. The center has a complete training and teaching system for practicing doctors, postgraduates, and regular doctors, and has extensive academic exchanges and clinical cooperation with many fraternal departments such as endocrinology, cardiovascular medicine, nephrology, nutrition, respiratory medicine, pediatrics, and traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture. The center’s specialty is laparoscopic symmetrical three-port metabolic bariatric surgery. Obese and diabetic bariatric surgery patients do not need urinary tubes, gastric tubes, or drainage tubes after the operation. They can go to the ground, drink water, and go to the toilet 2 hours after the operation. The patients can be discharged from the hospital within 1-2 days after the operation. The center is equipped with full-time nutritionists to provide full-process nutritional management for patients, develop personalized nutritional intervention plans based on pre-operative and postoperative follow-up at each stage, and conduct weekly education and guidance on dietary adjustments to help patients recover safely, lose weight appropriately and control blood sugar, so as to achieve the best results of the surgery.With the cooperation of the hospital's multidisciplinary team, hundreds of difficult cases of obese and diabetic patients have been successfully completed and accurately treated, including obesity with nephrotic syndrome, chronic renal insufficiency, severe heart failure, lipogenic/autoimmune pancreatitis, etc. Special and difficult cases such as secondary surgery after metabolic bariatric surgery in other hospitals, low-weight diabetes, Prader-Willi syndrome, etc. have been unanimously recognized by patients and their families. At present, the center leads the national diabetes bariatric surgery profession in many directions such as medical weight loss programs, nutritional support treatment, acupuncture treatment, rehabilitation treatment, and the reasonable selection of different bariatric surgical procedures. It has also established a joint obesity and diabetes multidisciplinary clinic, which has laid a good foundation for individualized treatment plan selection, long-term life guidance, and follow-up education for patients with diabetes and obesity. Since the North District Ward was opened in June 2020, it has received widespread attention from all walks of life. Currently, more than 3,000 patients have been scheduled for surgery. Scientific research achievements: Conducted a number of clinical and basic studies, participated in the compilation of guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of obesity in Chinese children and adolescents, and published several SCI papers. In 2021 alone, it has published 5 SCI papers and 2 invention patents. Currently, one provincial and ministerial level scientific research project is under study;It has also actively carried out international exchanges, organized more than 10 offline and online academic activities, and more than 10 online surgical live broadcasts in the industry. It has been invited to give dozens of keynote speeches at large international and domestic conferences. MDT team members have held more than 10 publicity activities in various media such as CCTV and Beijing TV. It has been widely praised by the industry and its industry influence continues to increase. Teaching situation: Meng Hua, director of the center, serves as a doctoral tutor at Capital Medical University and a graduate tutor at Peking Union Medical College. He is responsible for teaching undergraduate and postgraduate surgery, surgical infection and other related courses at Capital Medical University and Peking University School of Medicine, and has been well received by departments and students. In recent years, 30 surgical postgraduate students have been recruited, and all of them have successfully completed their studies. There are 2 doctoral students and 1 master's student. After graduation, the students each become the technical backbone of the hospital. Professor Meng Hua is currently recruiting postdoctoral fellows and welcomes aspiring talents to join. While doing heavy clinical medical work, we conduct literature study and case discussions every week, pay attention to tracking cutting-edge medical information, and continuously improve business technology levels. Strengthen the construction of the department's talent echelon, put forward professional development directions and requirements for each physician, and ensure that the knowledge structure keeps pace with knowledgeable people at home and abroad.We have trained dozens of excellent metabolic surgeons for medical consortium units, and now they are all working independently in various places. Location in the hospital: The department outpatient clinic is located in Clinic 7 on the 3rd floor of the outpatient building of the main department, Clinic 206 of the International Department, and the inpatient ward is located on the 9th floor of Building B in the North District and the 1st floor of Building L of the main department. Department telephone number: North District Ward: 010-84206620, North District Nurse Station: 010-84206572