Founded
1933, with Professor Yan Fuqing, the first dean of National Shanghai Medical College, as its founding president. It is also known as Shanghai Occupational Disease Prevention and Treatment Hospital, and Shanghai Red Cross Pulmonary Hospital.
Affiliation
Affiliated to Tongji University School of Medicine; a budget-managed hospital under the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission of China.
Official Positioning
A national Grade-A tertiary specialized hospital focusing on thoracic and pulmonary diseases, a national high-quality development pilot hospital for public hospitals, and a leading national clinical, teaching and research center for pulmonary and thoracic diseases in China.
Core Strengths & Flagship Specialties
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National leading disciplines: thoracic surgery (the world's largest general thoracic surgery center by annual surgical volume), lung cancer comprehensive diagnosis and treatment, respiratory and critical care medicine, tuberculosis prevention and treatment, occupational disease prevention and control, and lung transplantation
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5 national key clinical specialties, 1 national flagship department of integrated traditional Chinese and western medicine, with a high-level talent pool including 2 Changjiang Scholars, 4 winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 1 candidate of the National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project, and a number of national and municipal leading medical talents
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Key research platforms: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Tuberculosis (Pulmonary), Shanghai Lung Transplant Engineering Technology Research Center, Shanghai Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, and Shanghai Clinical Medical Research Center for Infectious Diseases (Tuberculosis)
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Advanced facilities: 4th generation Da Vinci surgical robot, high-end precision imaging equipment (3.0T MRI, spectral CT, PET-CT), hybrid operating rooms, and self-developed AI-assisted intelligent diagnosis and treatment system for lung diseases.
International Services & Cooperation
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Multilingual medical services (including English, Japanese, etc.) with dedicated foreign-related medical service channels
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Direct billing services for major global commercial insurance companies, and supports integrated one-stop settlement of basic medical insurance and commercial insurance
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Long-term in-depth academic cooperation and technical exchanges with top medical institutions worldwide, has held 46 international training courses on thoracic surgery, attracting medical experts from more than 10 countries to study and exchange
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Undertakes international medical assistance missions, and has established long-term technical cooperation and medical aid programs with countries including Sierra Leone, to promote the standardized development of global thoracic surgery technology.
Annual Service Volume
In 2024, the hospital recorded over 1.46 million outpatient and emergency visits, more than 157,000 inpatient admissions, and over 27,300 thoracic surgical procedures (including 62 lung transplantation operations) annually, with an average hospital stay of 3.39 days.
Official Address
Main Campus: 507 Zhengmin Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China; Branch Campuses: 130 Yanqing Road, Xuhui District, 229 Guyuan Road, Hongkou District, Shanghai, China.
