Founded in 1952 by the eminent professors Hu Maolian and Guo Bingkuan, the Eye & ENT Hospital of Fudan University is the only Grade 3, Class A specialized hospital under the National Health Commission that integrates medical care, teaching and research in both ophthalmology and otorhinolaryngology. Since 2006 it has also carried the name Shanghai EENT Hospital.

The hospital was originally named the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital of Shanghai Medical College, and took its present name after the merger of Fudan University and Shanghai Medical University in 2000. It is also a Red Cross-named hospital in Shanghai and a national drug clinical trial institution. In the Fudan ranking for 2023 it is placed in the A++ tier.

The Fenyang campus in Xuhui District covers 33 mu and has 374 open beds. It has eight clinical departments, ophthalmology, otorhinolaryngology, radiotherapy, anesthesiology, emergency, stomatology, oculoplastic and ENT plastic surgery, and nursing, and five medical technology departments, radiology, pathology, pharmacy, clinical laboratory and nutrition. A branch on Baoqing Road opened in 2002. In 2017 the Pujiang campus in Minhang District began operating; covering 100 mu, three times the size of the Fenyang campus, it has 500 approved beds, 350 of them opened in the first phase, and is managed together with the Fenyang campus to provide care of the same quality.

The hospital now receives more than 1.95 million outpatient visits and performs more than 110,000 operations a year, serving patients from all over China. It has 1,181 staff, including 1 academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 chief scientist of the national 973 Program, 2 Changjiang Scholars and 3 national outstanding young scientists, as well as 161 senior physicians, 36 doctoral supervisors and 50 master’s supervisors.

Both ophthalmology and otorhinolaryngology are national key disciplines and national key clinical specialties. The hospital has the National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Hearing Medicine and Key Laboratory of Myopia, and the Shanghai Key Laboratory of Visual Impairment and Restoration. It hosts the Shanghai Clinical Center for Hearing Medicine and the Shanghai Quality Control Center for Ophthalmology, and is a specialist training base of the National Health Commission for ophthalmology and otorhinolaryngology as well as a Shanghai standardized residency training base. In 2016 it set up research institutes of ophthalmology and of otorhinolaryngology to integrate clinical work and research, and in 2018 it established the Shanghai Research Center of Ophthalmology and Optometry.

The hospital has undertaken a growing number of research projects, including projects of the national 973 Program and national key R&D programs. It has won national second prizes for invention and for science and technology progress, and has published a number of papers in Nature journals.

In its more than sixty years the hospital has been named a Shanghai Civilized Unit seven times. Guided by its motto of “sincerity, unity, truth-seeking and innovation”, it is working to become a world-class specialized hospital with international influence.

Motto: Sincerity, Unity, Truth-seeking, Innovation

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