Good news came from the just concluded 119thanniversary celebration assembly of Shanghai Jiao Tong University that, ProfessorQiang Xia, the Director of Department of Liver Surgery in our hospital won the2015 chancellor award. Party Secretary of Shanghai Jiao Tong University SixianJiang and President Jie Zhang Academician awarded Qiang Xia together, becausehe leads Department of Liver Surgery of Renji hospital to the internationaladvanced rank in the last 10 years.
The only 4-year-old "new-liverBaby", Jiangyue Qiu, accompanied by her mother, came to the scene of the assemblyand brought her hand-drawn children painting to Professor Qiang Xia. She thankedProfessor Xia sincerely because he successfully implemented a pediatric livertransplant surgery and brought new life to her three years ago. When she announcedloudly with a tender voice to the audience "Uncle Xia, I love him!” theaudience were boiling. Many guests inside and outside the assembly were indescribableexcited.
The excellent performance of Qiang Xia andhis team has attracted great attention in the past 10 years. At that time, the38-year-old Qiang Xia led the liver surgery team at the average age of only 34years old from almost the scratch. Now, they have completed more than 1800cases of liver transplant surgery, ranking first in the country for fourconsecutive years in the cases of liver transplant surgery, especially leadingthe country in the field of pediatric liver transplantation. In 2014, the casesof pediatric liver transplantation in Department of Liver Surgery of RenjiHospital reached new high, with the annual 111 cases of pediatric liver transplantsurgery, and the annual surgical volume have been ranked first in the world forfour consecutive years. Qiang Xia also sets up China's first "biliaryatresia children's home", to build charity platform for infant livertransplant, and initiates the formation of the country's first and mostinfluential clubs in liver transplant patients. For treatment of children withliver transplant in 2014 in our hospital, more than 60 percent of them completedthe surgery with varying degrees of financial assistance. It is the communitycare and support to these special children and their families that help thembravely overcome illness and reborn.
Under the leadership of Director Qiang Xia,Department of Liver Surgery has become characteristic discipline through livertransplant technology as clinical characteristics, pediatric livertransplantation as iconic technology, and setting clinical and basic research ofend-stage liver disease and liver cancer as one union. The discipline hasbecome a National Key Clinical Specialist, the National "211 Project"Key Construction Discipline, the National Clinical Pharmacological Organization,etc. In 2014, the project led by Qiang Xia, "The establishment of the keytechnologies of pediatric liver transplantation and clinical application"won the first prize of the Higher School Scientific Research Award for OutstandingAchievements of Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of ChinaMedical Technology Prize, and the first prize of Shanghai Medical TechnologyPrize.
It isreported that Shanghai Jiao Tong University Chancellor Award was established in2003 for the recognition of those teaching medical staff, students, andcollective that have made outstanding contributions in practicing theuniversity’s motto, inheriting its culture, highlighting the spirit, promotingthe socialist core values, and so on. The Director of Department of Gastroenterology, Professor Jingyuan Fang and Director of Departmentof Cardiology, Professor Ben He in our hospital had also won the honor asindividual previously. (Reporter Huiyun Yuan / Translator Weiwei Zhang)