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Children's Hospital of Shanghai is an upper first-class hospital integrating medical, health care, teaching, scientific research, and rehabilitation, and is formerly known as Shanghai Refugee Children’s Hospital founded by Chinese famous pediatrician Fu Wenshou and founder of modern children's nutrition science Su Zufei and other predecessors in 1937. The Shanghai Refugee Children’s Hospital was renamed as Children's Hospital of Shanghai in 1953, becoming the first children-specific hospital in China, and became Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Children’s Hospital in 2003.

There are 1600 employees in the hospital with 2.65 million out-patient visits in 2019, 52 thousand annual inpatients and 39 thousand in-patient surgeries. The hospital branch on Luding Road, which was put into operation in March 2014, is located in Changfeng Ecological Business District of Putuo, covering an area about 2.6 hectares and holding 550 approved beds. The West Beijing Road Branch covers an area of 1.59 hectares and a construction area of about 25 thousand square meters with 150 approved beds. On April 28, 2013, the clinic on Meichuan Road was put into operation, and became the children's rehabilitation center in March 2014, providing rehabilitation training and treatment for patients with hearing, vision, intelligence, physical and mental development disabilities.

The hospital has full disciplines including 23 clinical specialties of intensive care medicine, neonatology, nephrology, respiration, hematology, gastroenterology, cardiology, neurology, endocrinology, general surgery, neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, orthopedics, urology, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, children's health department, dermatology, traditional Chinese medicine department, stomatology, ophthalmology, rehabilitation department, and medical genetics. The hospital possesses 1 academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, 15 doctoral tutors, 54 master tutors, and over 100 experts with senior professional titles and is the location of Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics, Shanghai Institute of Child Healthcare, Shanghai Children's Emergency Center, Shanghai Neonatal Screening Center, Shanghai Children Rehabilitation Center, Shanghai Diagnosis and Treatment of Hearing Impairment Center, Shanghai Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment Center of Neonatal Congenital Heart Disease. The Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics in our hospital was named as the Generic Diagnosis Department of Shanghai Medical Generics
Center by Ministry of Health and has developed an integrated set of molecular diagnostic techniques for genetic diseases. It first carried out the genetic diagnosis and prenatal diagnosis of phenylketonuria, hemophilia, DMD and other rare genetic diseases in China. As one of the first experimental units to use high throughput sequencing technology in the diagnosis of genetic diseases in China, Children's Hospital of Shanghai takes the lead in the field of genetic testing for children's genetic diseases.

As the clinical teaching base of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, the hospital has set up majors for doctor and master degree and post- doctoral mobile station. It has also established close cooperation with medical institutions in the United States, Canada, Russia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom and other countries. In recent years, the hospital has undertaken the research work of the national key projects "863" and "973" projects, national major and special projects, projects of National Natural Science Foundation f China, Foundation Projects of the Ministry of Education and Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau and SHDC research projects and scientific research project in international cooperation. Shanghai Institute of Medical Genetics led by the academician and famous scientist Zeng Yitao, has always been aiming at the international frontiers of the discipline, and has been awarded nearly 50 significant achievements awards at state, ministry and Shanghai municipal levels.
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