Founded by the national famous expert Prof. Xu Chunxiao in 1998, the Urology Surgery of the Second Hospital of Shandong University, thanks to unremitting efforts of two generations of doctors, has become a medical, scientific research and academic exchange center with obvious characteristics, first-class technology, complete sub-specialties and high reputation at home and abroad, and has made outstanding contributions to the development of urology surgery in China. In 2002, the Shandong University Urology Surgery Institute was established with the approval of the Board of Regents of Shandong University. Prof. Guo Yinglu from Peking University, an academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, serves as its honorary director and the chief expert of academic committee; the present director is Prof. Zhao Shengtian, who is a doctoral supervisor and Taishan Scholar, and the vice director is Prof. Liu Yuqiang, a famous urology surgery specialist in Shandong Province. Peter Ekman, the president of Sweden Urology Surgery Association and RUN Wang, the president of SMSNA and a famous male expert from USA, are the visiting professors.
The Urology Surgery is granted with the rights to award the doctoral and master's degree of Shandong University, and is identified as a postdoctoral mobile station, a key discipline of Shandong University “985 Program Phase III”, a key discipline of Shandong provincial medicine and health, a key laboratory of colleges and universities in Shandong Province during the“12th Five-year Plan”, the Andrology Training College of Chinese Medical Doctor Association, and the doctor training center of Urology Surgery Branch of Shandong Medical Doctor Association. In 2012, it was rated by MOH as the only national key clinical specialty construction unit of urology surgery in Shandong Province.
The Urology Surgery has divisions including three outpatients, prostatic male outpatient, calculus clinic and general urology surgery outpatient, and has established Cystoscopy Room, ESWL Room, Urology Surgery Laboratory, Urology Surgery Ultrasound Room, Urology Surgery Urodynamics Laboratory, Sexual Dysfunction Rehabilitation Therapy Room, Urology Surgery Clinical Pharmacology Research Room, and Editorial Office of Current Urology and other auxiliary departments as well as one ward with 54 beds occupying a building area of about 2400m2.
Medical Members
The Department currently has over 30 members devoted to medicine, teaching and research, including 2 talents introduced from overseas, 3 “Taishan Scholars”, 4 doctoral supervisors, 7 master supervisors, 11 professor-level chief physicians and 6 associate professor-level associate chief physicians. 9 members once offered services overseas. Members at middle and young age below 45 years old account for 68% and 86% of the members in the Department hold a doctoral or master’s degree. Since the establishment of the postdoctoral mobile station, the Department has cultivated 1 postdoctor, more than 10 doctors and over 100 masters. Current Urology, an English journal founded by the Editorial Department of the Institute, has received a large number of contributions from all over the world and has been offered globally and included by USA Pubmed.
Clinical Medicine
In recent years, under the leadership of director Liu Yuqiang, the Department has taken the lead in applying laparoscope, Holmium laser and other advanced technologies to treat urinary surgery diseases in the Province and formed a comprehensive department characterized by laparoscipic treatment of urinary surgical diseases, Holmium laser treatment of hyperplasia of prostate, minimally invasive endoscopic therapy of urinary calculi and minimally invasive characteristic surgeries to treat make diseases. The rate has reached 80% in applicating minimally invasive endoscopic therapy in treating diseases of urinary system. Equipped with highly skilled and experienced experts and perfect minimal invasive diagnosis and treatment equipment, the Urology Surgery Minimally Invasive Specialty has carried out various advanced minimally invasive surgeries at home and abroad. At present, surgeries to treat the diseases of adrenal gland, renal tumor, and prostatic carcinoma are all performed with the help of minimally invasive laparoscopy; transurethral Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate and bladder tumor resection have completely freed the patients from the pain of open surgery; various advanced and unique minimally invasive surgeries are well-known in China for the treatment of male diseases. The diagnosis and treatment level of complex urinary calculi relying on minimally invasive endoscopy has always been in the advanced ranks in China. More than 95% of patients with urinary calculi can be cured by minimally invasive endoscopic therapy. Currently, the five endoscopic techniques of urology surgery have been routinely carried out, ranking the first in the Province. The Department has characteristic techniques such as transurethral Holmium laser enucleation of prostate, application of seminal vesiculoscopy technique in the treatment of disease of seminalvesicle, arteriae testiculars-preserving high ligation of spermatic artery, diagnosis of male erectile dysfunction, and surgical treatment of penile prosthesis, etc., which are in the leading level in China.
Scientific Research Level
The Urology Surgery has successively undertaken nearly 30 research subjects to the state, the province and the ministries with total research grant approaching RMB 10 million Yuan, and published over 50 papers on domestic and foreign journals, won more than 10 provincial and ministerial science and technology progress awards, edited or co-edited more than 80 books, demonstrating its strong force of scientific research and excellent scientific research conditions.
Academic Exchange and Cooperation
In addition to cooperation and exchange with domestic famous hospitals in scientific research and clinic, the Urology Surgery also has successively dispatched 9 experts to USA, Sweden and Austria for advanced studies. Many experts from the Department have presided over, attended, made speeches and demonstrated operations on world, international and domestic academic conferences, and the Department offered assistance in holding 5 international academic conferences and nearly 20 provincial academic conferences
The Department has invited Prof. Wang Run, the chairman of SMSNA and director of Andrology Department of USAMD Anderson Tumor Center; Professor Tai Changfeng, bladder nerve regulation expert of USA University of Pittsburgh; Peter Ekman from the Medical School of Sweden Karolinska University, and more than 10 international famous experts from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the hospital for academic exchange, through which, good international cooperative relationship is established and academic development is promoted.
Urinary Calculus Surgery
As an independent branch of Urology Surgery, the Urinary Calculus Surgery started the application of percutaneous nephroscopy and ureteroscopic lithotripsy in 2003, and has accumulated abundant treatment experience with technical level at provincial leading and domestic advanced level. Now more than one thousand calculus surgeries are carried out every year. The Department is assisted with various advanced lithotripsy equipment, such as Lumenis Holmium laser, the 5th generation of EMS ultrasonic lithotripsy system, percutaneous nephroscopy, rigid ureteroscopy and soft electronic ureteroscopy, Wolf dual-channel flexible ureteroscopy, etc. The Department owns 2 chief physicians, 2 associate chief physicians and several attending doctors in a reasonable echelon to comprehensively carry out various minimally invasive lithotripsies including percutaneous nephroscopy, flexible ureteroscopy and CLER, which is highly supported by the hospital and praised by patients.