Tianjin Medical University Chu Hsien-I Memorial Hospital, also known as Tianjin Medical University Metabolic Disease Hospital or Tianjin Metabolic Disease Prevention and Treatment Center, is located at 6 Huanrui North Road, Beichen District, Tianjin, People's Republic of China.
The history of Chu Hsien-I Hospital can be traced back to 1959 when Chu Hsien-I established the endocrinology department at Tianjin Medical College. [1] In July 1998, Tianjin Medical University officially opened the hospital to the public at 66 Tong'an Road, Heping District, Tianjin, with medical equipment donated by the Japanese government.
In 2004, Tianjin Medical University Metabolic Disease Hospital merged with Tianjin Institute of Endocrinology. Currently, Tianjin Medical University Zhu Xianyi Memorial Hospital is a comprehensive tertiary grade A university hospital specializing in metabolic diseases. It is affiliated with Tianjin Medical University and supervised by the Tianjin Municipal Education Commission.[ citation needed ]
Endocrinology is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions known as hormones. It is also concerned with the integration of developmental events proliferation, growth, and differentiation, and the psychological or behavioral activities of metabolism, growth and development, tissue function, sleep, digestion, respiration, excretion, mood, stress, lactation, movement, reproduction, and sensory perception caused by hormones. Specializations include behavioral endocrinology and comparative endocrinology.
Tianjin is a municipality and metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. As such, it is not part of a province of China. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the 2020 Chinese census. Its metropolitan area, which is made up of 12 central districts, was home to 11,165,706 inhabitants and is also the world's 29th-largest agglomeration and 11th-most populous city proper.
Tianjin Medical University is a municipal public medical university in Tianjin, China. It is affiliated with the City of Tianjin, and co-funded by the Tianjin Municipal People's Government, the National Health Commission, and the Ministry of Education. The university is part of Project 211 and the Double First-Class Construction.
Nankai District is a district of Tianjin, People's Republic of China. Nankai District borders the Hai River in the east and Chentangzhuang Railway in the west and south.
The Cambridge Biomedical Campus is the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe. The site is located at the southern end of Hills Road in Cambridge, England.
The Port of Tianjin, formerly known as the Port of Tanggu, is the largest port in Northern China and the main maritime gateway to Beijing. The name "Tianjin Xingang", which strictly speaking refers only to the main seaport area, is sometimes used to refer to the whole port. The port is on the western shore of the Bohai Bay, centred on the estuary of the Haihe River, 170 km southeast of Beijing and 60 km east of Tianjin city. It is the largest man-made port in mainland China, and one of the largest in the world. It covers 121 square kilometers of land surface, with over 31.9 km of quay shoreline and 151 production berths at the end of 2010.
National Peiyang University (北洋大学堂), originally Imperial Tientsin University, was established in Tianjin in October 1895 by Sheng Xuanhuai, the official of the Tianjin Customs, with the approval of the Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty. It was the first government-run university in modern China where western science & technology was its main focus. The school motto was "Seeking truth from facts" (实事求是). In 1951, by Chinese government's order, the university was renamed as Tianjin University.
Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital is a teaching hospital in Shanghai, China, affiliated with the School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Founded in 1904, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital is a large-scale tertiary general hospital with more than 100 years of accumulation. In 2002, it became the affiliated hospital of Shanghai Jiaotong University. The hospital has two campuses, Xuhui and Lingang; there are 2,366 beds, of which 1,766 are in the Xuhui campus, and 600 in the Lingang hospital area; 52 clinical medical technology departments. In the past five years, the hospital's annual outpatient and emergency visits topped 5 million, its annual discharges topped nearly 150,000, and its annual inpatient surgeries topped 110,000.
Hedong District is located at the heart of the municipality of Tianjin, People's Republic of China. Its name literally means "east of the river", referring to its location east of the Hai River. Parts of the district were once part of the Russian Concession during the colonial period in the early 20th century.
The China-Japan Friendship Hospital also abbreviated as China-Japan Hospital was established through the cooperation of the Chinese and Japanese governments during the 1980s. The hospital has been directly affiliated with China's Ministry of Health since its first day of operation, October 23, 1984. The hospital is located on East Yinghuayuan Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing. The hospital covers 9.7 hectares, with floorspace of facilities measuring 180,000 square metres (1,900,000 sq ft). Within the hospital, there are 1,500 beds, 58 departments, as well as a clinical research and education center. The hospital has intensive care and treatment of severe diseases as a primary focus and integrative eastern-western medicinal therapy as an additional area of expertise. The hospital often attends to the health care of senior officials from over 100 countries and regions.
Tianjin Medical University General Hospital is a general hospital in the central Heping District of the Chinese metropolis of Tianjin, associated with Tianjin Medical University.
Anoop Misra is an Indian endocrinologist and a former honorary physician to the Prime Minister of India. He is the chairman of Fortis Centre for Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol (C-DOC) and heads, National Diabetes Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation (NDOC). A former Fellow of the World Health Organization at the Royal Free Hospital, UK, Misra is a recipient of the Dr. B. C. Roy Award, the highest Indian award in the medical category. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2007, for his contributions to Indian medicine.
The city of Tianjin considers itself the original home or birthplace of Chinese industrial revolution. Modern industry started there with Tianjin Machine Factory which was established by the Qing government during the Self-Strengthening Movement. Afterwards, Yuan Shikai promoted new policies in Tianjin. Numerous modern industrial enterprises mushroomed in Hebei New District in the northern bank of the Hai River. Including Zhou Xuexi, many industrialists established large enterprise groups that were managed by merchant and supervised by the government. By the beginning of the 20th century, Chinese private enterprises were booming. Among them is the most representative Yongli Alkali Factory which won the gold award and certificate in Philadelphia, the U.S. in 1926 by the sodium carbonate it produced. The factory was praised as "the symbol of developing important chemical industry of the Republic China". The development of Tianjin's modern industrial and the establishment of the Concessions in Tianjin contributed to the rapid expansion of modern Tianjin to become the biggest city and center of industry and commerce in northern China, as well as the second biggest city of industry, finance and trade in China. The development of Tianjin modern industry mainly went through four stages: initial period, evolution period, booming period and occupied period. Because of the industrial boom of Tianjin modern industry, the government of Tianjin built The Tianjin Museum of Modern Industry in Divergence estuary for commemoration.
David Goltzman is an endocrinologist, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, and A.G. Massabki Chair in Medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has been the Director of the Centre for Bone and Periodontal Research and also holds the position of Senior Scientist at the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute in the Metabolic Disorders and Complications Program.
Hyen-taik Kimm was a Korean-Chinese physician that specialized in oncology. In China, he is remembered as the "Father of Chinese Oncology" for his many pioneering contributions to the field in the country as a researcher, educator, and practitioner. He was the first oncologist in China, created the first Chinese oncology journal, the Chinese Journal of Clinical Oncology, and the first Chinese oncologist organization, the Anti-Cancer Society of China.
The British concession of Tianjin was one of seven total British concessions in China. It was one of nine foreign concessions in Tianjin, and was the earliest established and most successful out of all of the concessions. The concession bordered the French and Germans to the northwest and southeast, respectively, and faced the Russian concession across the Hai river. The settlement prospered economically, and many legacies of the British influence over Tianjin can be seen today.
Karen Lam Siu-ling is known for her research on diabetes and obesity. She is the Rosie T.T. Young Professor in Endocrinology and Metabolism at the University of Hong Kong.
Tianjin Institute of Foreign Trade was established in January 1983. It was one of the four higher education institutions directly under the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. The institute was located at 100 Yingshui Road, Nankai District, Tianjin. In 1994, Tianjin Institute of Foreign Trade was disestablished and merged into Nankai University.
Nankai University Affiliated High School, located on Santan Road in Nankai District, Tianjin, was established in 1960. Its predecessor was the Tianjin University Nankai University Affiliated High School. It used to be a school for the children of faculty and staff of Nankai University and Tianjin University. Currently, the junior high school department admits students from Nankai District, and the senior high school department admits students from across Tianjin. In 2007, Tianjin No. 43 Middle School merged into Nankai University Affiliated High School. The original site of Nankai University Affiliated High School within Nankai University was converted into the Nankai University Center for Combinatorial Mathematics.
Nankai University Affiliated Hospital, located at 4 Weishan Road, Xiahaidong, Hexi District, Tianjin, was formerly known as Tianjin Fourth Hospital, also referred to as Tianjin Burn Special Hospital.