Children's Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University (National Children's Medical Center)

The National Children's Medical Center's core subspecialty of pediatric neurorehabilitation; a benchmark in China for ultra-early screening of cerebral palsy, standardized functional assessment, and hospital- community -family chain rehabilitation system; leading the development of the "Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cerebral Paralysis in Children and Adolescents"; benchmarking against the Cincinnati Children's Hospital's Child Rehabilitation Center in the United States.

The Rehabilitation Center of the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University was established on May 18, 2000. It is a specialized center integrating medical treatment, teaching, research and development and translation. Adhering to the medical philosophy of "rigorous and pragmatic, accumulating knowledge and making breakthroughs", it pursues comprehensive development in all aspects of medical treatment, teaching and research. At present, it has developed into a children's rehabilitation institution with considerable scale and influence in China. The department is a standing committee member unit of the Autism Committee of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, a vice chairman unit of the Child Rehabilitation Committee of the Shanghai Association of Rehabilitation Medicine, a member unit of the Pediatric Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation Committee of the China Disabled Persons' Rehabilitation Association, a designated assessment and training institution for rehabilitation assistance for disabled children by the Shanghai Disabled Persons' Federation, and the only Asian training base of the European GM Trust "Total Movements (GMs) Assessment China Training Base".

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The department currently has 11 physicians and 23 rehabilitation therapists, including 2 with senior professional titles, 2 with associate senior professional titles, 1 doctoral supervisor, 1 master's supervisor, 4 with doctoral degrees, and 1 provincial-level high-level talent. After more than 20 years of development, the rehabilitation center has formed four distinctive sub-specialties: high-risk infant assessment and intervention, critical care rehabilitation, psychological and behavioral rehabilitation, and rare disease rehabilitation. It has developed eight nationally influential specialized departments and diseases: high-risk infant GMs assessment and early intervention, learning disability rehabilitation, sensory integration and attention rehabilitation, early critical care rehabilitation, systemic rehabilitation management of neuromuscular diseases (rare diseases), gait and musculoskeletal rehabilitation, speech and swallowing disorder rehabilitation, and autism rehabilitation. In the past five years, the hospital has received more than 300 trainees from all over the country, including doctors, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and nurses. More than 60% of these trainees are from top-tier hospitals.

Discipline Positioning and Core Advantages:

The department serves as the European GM Trust "China Training Base for Whole-Body Movement Assessment," and has long-term scientific research collaborations and academic exchanges with Professor Christa Einspieler of the Medical University of Graz, Austria. It has trained over 2,000 GMs technical personnel, spread across all provinces and cities in China, with 49 GMs intermediate member assessment institutions nationwide. Its core advantages can be summarized as a four-dimensional integration: "International Training Base for GMs Whole-Body Movement Assessment Technology × Pioneering National System for Early Screening and Intervention of Cerebral Palsy × Leading the Medical-Community-Family Chain Rehabilitation Model × Emphasis on Early Rehabilitation of Critical Illnesses and Systemic Management of Rare Diseases." The department pioneered several national initiatives, including the "Standardized Assessment System for Cerebral Palsy Rehabilitation," the "Early Screening and Intervention System for Cerebral Palsy," the "Chain-based Rehabilitation Service Model for Cerebral Palsy Children (Medical-Community-Family)," the "Graded Rehabilitation Management Model for High-Risk Infants," and the "Systematic Management Model for Peripheral Neuromuscular Diseases." It also took the lead in implementing "Acute Phase Rehabilitation Functional Assessment and Early Intervention for Hospitalized Children." In the past five years, the rehabilitation team has been granted more than 10 National Natural Science Foundation of China projects and provincial/ministerial-level research grants, applied for more than 10 patents, and spearheaded the development of the "Clinical Practice Guidelines for Cerebral Palsy in Children and Adolescents" and the "Shanghai Municipal Standards for the Rehabilitation Management of Cerebral Palsy Children."

National Children's Medical Center (Shanghai), National Key Discipline of Pediatrics, National Key Clinical Specialty, National Pediatric Professional Medical Quality Control Center; consistently ranked first in the national pediatrics rankings on Fudan University's Specialty Reputation List; a national referral center for comprehensive pediatric diseases, birth defects, chronic pediatric diseases, and complex and critical illnesses; benchmarked against Boston Children's Hospital in the United States and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in the United Kingdom. National Children's Medical Center (Shanghai), National Key Discipline of Pediatrics, National Key Clinical Specialty, National Pediatric Professional Medical Quality Control Center; consistently ranked first in the national pediatrics rankings on Fudan University's Specialty Reputation List; a national referral center for comprehensive pediatric diseases, birth defects, chronic pediatric diseases, and complex and critical illnesses; benchmarked against Boston Children's Hospital in the United States and Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital in the United Kingdom.

Founded in 1952, the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, formerly known as the School of Pediatrics of Shanghai First Medical College, is a Grade III Class A comprehensive children's specialist hospital under the budget management of the National Health Commission. Adhering to the principle of "Everything for Children" and the motto of "Unity, Progress, Rigor, and Innovation," the hospital was approved as a National Children's Medical Center and a National Civilized Unit in 2017, and as a National Pediatric Professional Medical Quality Control Center in 2020. The hospital possesses key national disciplines in pediatrics and is a national "985 Project" and "Double First-Class" construction unit. It was among the first hospitals in China to be granted national authorization to award master's and doctoral degrees in pediatrics and to establish a postdoctoral research station in clinical medicine.

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The hospital has 1,000 approved beds and 50 clinical and medical technology departments. It boasts 18 national key clinical specialty construction projects, 246 specialized outpatient clinics, and 37 outpatient clinics for rare and complex diseases. It serves approximately 2.49 million outpatient and emergency visits and 49,000 inpatients annually. It performs nearly 1,000 da Vinci surgeries annually and has successfully performed nearly 100 heart, liver, and kidney transplants. In the past 10 years, it has undertaken 813 national key research and development projects, published over 2,100 high-impact papers in journals such as *Nature*, *Science*, and *The Lancet*, and won over 50 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research awards.

Discipline Positioning and Core Strengths:

The hospital ranks among the top in pediatrics in both the China Hospital Science and Technology Ranking and the China Hospital Best Specialty Reputation Ranking. For many consecutive years, it has ranked first in pediatric internal medicine and second in pediatric surgery in the "China Hospital Specialty Reputation Ranking". The core advantages can be summarized as a four-dimensional integration of "national platform × cutting-edge gene therapy × MDT system × full life cycle management": As the National Children's Medical Center, in 2021, it promoted the "Six-Six" strategy, built six major clinical centers (precision diagnosis and treatment center for difficult and critical illnesses, neonatal clinical center, birth defect clinical center, hematology and oncology clinical center, infectious disease and immune clinical center, and child development and rehabilitation clinical center), and constructed six major support platforms (minimally invasive medicine platform, transplant medicine platform, critical care life support technology platform, imaging medicine platform, molecular medicine platform, and clinical research center platform). In 2023, the hospital was approved as a pilot unit for international medical tourism among public hospitals in Shanghai and opened the "Maritime International Clinic" to develop precise diagnosis and treatment plans for children with complex and critical illnesses.