Ophthalmology Department

The Department of Ophthalmology of the People's Liberation Army General Hospital was established in June 2020. It was established on the basis of the original ophthalmology departments of the eight medical centers of the People's Liberation Army General Hospital. The department is located in the Third Medical Center (No. 69 Yongding Road, Haidian District, Beijing). It is a modern comprehensive ophthalmology department integrating ophthalmic medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, health care, prevention and rehabilitation. The Department of Ophthalmology consists of three subspecialties: ophthalmology, neuro-ophthalmology, and orbital surgery, as well as an ophthalmic research institute, including 11 subspecialty groups including cataract, glaucoma, corneal disease, ocular trauma, vitreoretinopathy, neuro-ophthalmology, orbital disease and plastic surgery, pediatric ophthalmology, fundus medicine, tear apparatus disease center, and optometry center. It has 385 beds, including 240 beds in the main hospital. There are 50 staff with senior professional titles, including 13 chief physicians, 37 deputy chief physicians, 7 doctoral supervisors, 8 master supervisors, and 11 professors of third-level or above. It is a Beijing ophthalmology resident training base, a national key (cultivation) discipline, a national key specialist military construction project, and a national clinical drug trial base. It has won 1 first-class military science and technology progress award, 26 second-class military science and technology progress and medical achievements awards, and 1 first-class science and technology progress award from the Ministry of Education;Currently, it undertakes 22 major scientific research tasks across the country and the entire military, including 973, 863, national key research and development plans, and the National Natural Science Foundation. Published 160 SCI papers in the past five years. It enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad and has leading advantages in specialty subspecialties and diagnosis and treatment projects: emergency eye trauma treatment, complex cataract diagnosis and treatment, artificial cornea surgery, neuro-ophthalmology, tear machine disease, orbital disease diagnosis and treatment, etc.