Good news came from the just concluded 119th anniversary celebration assembly of Shanghai Jiao Tong University that, Professor Qiang Xia, the Director of Department of Liver Surgery in our hospital won the 2015 chancellor award. Party Secretary of Shanghai Jiao Tong University Sixian Jiang and President Jie Zhang Academician awarded Qiang Xia together, because he has led Department of Liver Surgery of Renji hospital to the international advanced rank in the last 10 years.

The only 4-year-old "new-liver Baby", Jiangyue Qiu, accompanied by her mother, came to the scene of the assembly and brought her hand-drawn children painting to Professor Qiang Xia. She thanked Professor Xia sincerely because he successfully implemented a pediatric liver transplant surgery and brought new life to her three years ago. When she announced loudly with a tender voice to the audience "Uncle Xia, I love him!” the audience were boiling. Many guests inside and outside the assembly were indescribable excited.

The excellent performance of Qiang Xia and his team has attracted great attention in the past 10 years. At that time, the 38-year-old Qiang Xia led the liver surgery team at the average age of only 34 years old from almost the scratch. Now, they have completed more than 1800 cases of liver transplant surgery, ranking first in the country for four consecutive years in the cases of liver transplant surgery, especially leading the country in the field of pediatric liver transplantation. In 2014, the cases of pediatric liver transplantation in Department of Liver Surgery of Renji Hospital reached new high, with the annual 111 cases of pediatric liver transplant surgery, and the annual surgical volume have been ranked first in the world for four consecutive years. Qiang Xia also sets up China's first "biliary atresia children's home", to build charity platform for infant liver transplant, and initiates the formation of the country's first and most influential clubs in liver transplant patients. For treatment of children with liver transplant in 2014 in our hospital, more than 60 percent of them completed the surgery with varying degrees of financial assistance. It is the community care and support to these special children and their families that help them bravely overcome illness and reborn.

Under the leadership of Director Qiang Xia, Department of Liver Surgery has become characteristic discipline through liver transplant technology as clinical characteristics, pediatric liver transplantation as iconic technology, and setting clinical and basic research of end-stage liver disease and liver cancer as one union. The discipline has become 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 key technologies of pediatric liver transplantation and clinical application" won the first prize of the Higher School Scientific Research Award for Outstanding Achievements of Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of China Medical Technology Prize, and the first prize of Shanghai Medical Technology Prize.

It is reported that Shanghai Jiao Tong University Chancellor Award was established in 2003 for the recognition of those teaching medical staff, students, and collective that have made outstanding contributions in practicing the university’s motto, inheriting its culture, highlighting the spirit, promoting the socialist core values, and so on. The Director of Department of Gastroenterology, Professor Jingyuan Fang and Director of Department of Cardiology, Professor Ben He in our hospital also won the honor as individual previously. (Reporter Huiyun Yuan / Translator Weiwei Zhang)