Cardiology Department

The Department of Cardiovascular Diseases at the West China Medical University was established in 1960, as the first medical cardiovascular disease department in China. After generations of collaboration, it has now grown into a multi-functional cardiovascular center with general hospitals, nursing homes, laboratories, cardiac function checkpoints and heart ducts.It is now the National Clinical Center for Clinical Research, the National Institute of Medicine's Center for Cardiovascular Research, the National Cancer Institute, the National Clinical Blood Testing Center, the National Clinical Drug Trial Base, the World Medical Association's Committee on Cardiovascular Disease, the National Board of Clinical Research and Clinical Medicine of the Chinese Medical Association.In May 2019, it received the National Center for Clinical Research in Cardiovascular Diseases, becoming one of the two leading national research units to be founded in the new clinical medical unit.