Known as Shanghai General Hospital when founded on March 1, 1864, Shanghai First People's Hospital，was the largest hospital of western medicine at that time as well as one of the earliest of its kind in China among general hospitals of western medicine. Its name was changed to Gongji Hospital in 1877 and Shanghai Municipal First People's Hospital in 1953, respectively; it became Shanghai Red Cross Hospital in 1981, and developed into the First People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiaotong University in 2002. As one of the first batch of hospitals accredited as Class A tertiary general hospitals (top-class hospitals in China) by the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China in 1992, it has been successively awarded as the Model Establishment in Shanghai for 13 times. Since 1990, it has been respectively honored as one of the 100 Best Hospitals in China, Advanced Unit in the Public Health Community of China, Advanced Unit of Spiritual Civilization in China, Advanced Unit in the Construction of Medical Ethics in China and Advanced Unit of Hospital Cultural Construction in China, and the like.
Divided into the North Region (100 Haining Road, Hongkou District) and the South Region (650 New Songjiang Road, Songjiang District), the 94,775 square meter hospital ranks the biggest among Class A tertiary general hospitals in terms of floorage space. The hospital boasts 500 staff with senior professional titles and 700 staff with Master’s Degree or above; 1,580 approved sickbeds and more than 2,000 practically open sickbeds; and 48 departments of clinical and medical technology.
The hospital has always been in the leading position in local and national circles of public health. Especially in the middle and late 20th century, when an army of famous doctors worked in our hospital, including the famous experts Le Wenzhao, Ren Tinggui, Hu Maolian, Shen Chengwu, You Pengxi, Chen Hongda, Lin Yuanying, Zhao Dongsheng, Xia Libin, Xue Zhaosheng, Gong Minzhu, Zhang Jingren, Zhang Youmei, Ding Guo, Yan Hechang, Cai Xiaosun, Huang Zheng, Huang Xianming，Xie Tong, Hu Yuanfeng, Huang Shuolin, Zhang Xi, Zhuang Xinliang, Tang Xiaoda and Xiao Mingdi. These well-known medical personnel made unprecedented medical achievements in China: for example, the first hepatectomy, the first thumb reconstruction through toe transplantation, the first operation under acupuncture anesthesia, researching and manufacturing of the first domestic vector-cardiograph and the first prototype of domestic temporary cardiac pacemaker prototype, to name a few. All this has made significant contribution to the medical development in China and human health in Shanghai.
In the past three decades or more since reform and opening-up, we have made progress in subject development and personnel training. The Hospital has 1 state-level key discipline (Department of Cardiology), 5 clinical key disciplines of the Ministry of Public Health (General Surgery, Respiratory, Urology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery), 4 endoscopic training bases of the Ministry of Public Health (Digestive Department, General Surgery, Urology, Gynecology), 2 Shanghai municipal clinical centers ( Shanghai Organ Transplantation Clinical Medical Center, Shanghai Clinical Medicine Center for Vision Rehabilitation), 3 Shanghai municipal emergency centers (Shanghai Heart Disease Emergency Center, Shanghai Trauma Emergency Center, Shanghai First Aid Center of Maternal Near Miss), 3 key disciplines of Shanghai municipal leading medicine (Ophthalmology, Anesthesiology, Urology), 2 Shanghai municipal key laboratories (Key Laboratory for Ocular Fundus Disease in Shanghai, Key Laboratory for Pancreatic Disease in Shanghai), 2 control centers of Shanghai medical quality (Shanghai Anesthesia Quality Control Centre, Shanghai Liver Transplantation Quality Control Center). In addition, we have also established the Shanghai Ophthalmic Research Institute, Urology Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Pancreatic Disease Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University and Demonstrative TCM Department of Shanghai Public Health Bureau.
Our hospital excels in medicine, teaching and research with plentiful achievements. The survival rate of renal transplantation is close to that of advanced countries in Europe and America. For example, “the tissue matching for renal transplantation” has achieved the advanced international level, and won the second prize in National Science and Technology Progress; the clinical research of retinal disease stands on the leading level domestically; the subject of “Clinical Prevention and Treatment of Diabetic Retinitis and its Pathogenesis Research and Application” won the second prize in National Science and Technology Progress; the quality of liver transplantation, ranking advanced in China, won the first prize in Science and Technology Progress in Shanghai; the thulium laser resection of prostate-tangerine technique created by the Department of Urology to treat the benign prostatic hyperplasia has been highly evaluated and praised by the International Faulty of 1000 Medicine (F1000), won the first prize in the Science and Technology Progress in Shanghai and the second prize in Medical Science and Technology Progress in China. In April 2000, we successfully implemented a heart transplant surgery, with the longest surviving heart transplant patient in Shanghai. In January 2003, the first adult islet cell transplantation in Asia was successfully implemented. In 2009, we successfully cured the first seriously ill patient with H1N1 in Shanghai, epitomizing the wisdom and competence of medical personnel in Shanghai. In addition, among the state-of-the art level in the domestic community are the surgical treatment of gynecological tumor, throat, head and neck neoplasm, treatment of severe acute pancreatitis and severe pulmonary infection, interventional therapy of coronary artery disease, radiofrequency catheter ablation of arrhythmia, bone marrow stem cells transplantation for the treatment of hematological disease, blood purification treatment, wound and spinal surgery, islet transplantation and comprehensive treatment of diabetes as well as tumor-related fundamental research and the like.
Remarkable achievements have been made in personnel echelon construction and scientific research education. At present, we have over 50 PhD supervisors, over 100 Master’s supervisors, 22 doctoral programmes, 22 postdoctoral mobile research stations, and 33 Master’s programmes. Many are recipients of the National Outstanding Youth Science Fund, and the Joint Research Fund for Overseas Young Scholars, and have been enlisted into the New-Century Ten-Hundred-Thousand Talents Project, Shanghai One-hundred Scholar Project, Shanghai Leading Talent Project and Excellent Academic Leaders of Shanghai. We annually received over 50 awards of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and about 200 awards of research projects of various kinds, published more than 500 papers in Source Journals for Chinese Scientific and Technical Papers and Citations, with nearly a collection of 200 papers by the SCI. It recently won 4 awards of first prize of Science and Technology Progress in Shanghai, 1 award of first prize of Science and Technology Progress in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, 1 award of first prize of Science and Technology Prize in Huaxia Medicine, 3 awards of Science and Technology Prize in Chinese Medicine and many awards of Science and Technology Prize of Shanghai.
Going for patients-oriented service in the spirit of “keeping an open mind, striving for excellence”, our hospital has made great efforts to provide domestic and foreign patients with more and better medical services based on our rigorous medical style, exquisite medical technology and strict scientific management in a bid to turn itself into a modern academic medical institution.