The Department of Orthopaedics of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University was founded in 1988. Under the leadership of Professor Zheng Zugen  and  Professor Dong Qirong, it has developeda key discipline of the Ministry of Education, a key clinical specialty of Medicine in Jiangsu Province, a key clinical discipline of Osteology in Jiangsu Province, a clinical center of Orthopedics in Suzhou City  and  a clinical center of Osteoporosis in Suzhou City. It is the doctoral  and  masters degree awarding point  and  postdoctoral mobile station of Soochow University. In 2005, it took the lead in the construction of orthopedics subspecialization in Suzhou,  and  has been builtspine, joint, h  and  foot  and  trauma subspecialties, covering all fields of orthopedics,  and  completing the diagnosis  and  treatment of trauma, deformity, tumor, degeneration  and  other diseases. It is the vice chairman unit of the bone mineral salts  and  Osteoporosis Society of the Chinese Medical Association, the microsurgery branch of the Jiangsu Medical Association  and  the sports medicine branch of the Jiangsu Medical Association.

The department has a strong scientific research force, with more than 350 SCI papers  and  more than 100 Chinese series published. It presided over 1 key project subproject of the Ministry of Science  and  Technology, 34 National Natural Science Foundation, 13 Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, 4 key social development projects of Jiangsu Province,  and  more than 50 scientific research projects in Suzhou. It has won dozens of provincial  and  ministerial science  and  technology awards, among which "Basic  and  clinical research on posterior spinal transpedicle internal fixation" won the second prize of National Science  and  Technology Progress. It has Jiangsu Applied Research Center of Physical  and  Medical Integration to Promote Elderly Bone Health, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Osteoporosis Diagnosis  and  Treatment Technology  and  Transformation, Institute of Osteoporosis of Soochow University, Suzhou Key Laboratory of Spinal Cord Injury Repair, Suzhou Key Laboratory of Peripheral Nerve Repair  and  Suzhou Key Technology Laboratory of Iron-mediated Osteoporosis Prevention  and  Treatment.

At present, there are 19 chief physicians (including 6 professors), 24 deputy chief physicians (including 10 associate professors), 34 attending  and  resident physicians, 2 technicians, 1 scientific research assistant  and  2 part-time professors (one national Jieqing  and  one outsting youth). It has a number of key medical talents in Jiangsu Province, key health talents in Gusu  and  provincial "333" project talents. There are 2 academic doctoral supervisors, 8 clinical doctoral supervisors  and  25 master supervisors, of whom more than 20 once studied in Europe, America, Japan  and  Hong Kong. There are 78 doctors in this department, including 5 under 30 years old, 15 between 30  and  35 years old, 9 between 50  and  60 years old,  and  3 over 60 years old. Educational composition: 31 doctoral students, 47 master students, no bachelor degreebelow. There are 210 beds  and  nearly 9,000 operations annually. At the same time, it undertakes the teaching work of graduate students  and  undergraduate students in Soochow University,  and  has trained more than 250 masters  and  doctoral students, which is the stardized training base for resident doctors in Jiangsu Province.

Data Updated until Jul 2024