Overview
The Department of Psychiatry of Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, founded in 2011, is a collection of facilities integrating medical treatment, teaching and scientific research supported by integrated comprehensive professional team. Our department has 26 psychiatrists and psychologists, which is comprised of 9 with senior titles (among whom there are 3 professors, 2 clinical researchers of Zhejiang University and 1 clinical associate researcher), 11 with intermediate titles and 6 with junior titles. The department has a highly qualified and creative nursing team with advanced specialized nursing concepts. Highly skilled specialists provide expert care for adults and teenagers who have mental, addictive and emotional disorders, and carry out comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation combining pharmacological, physical and psychological treatment.
[Academic Status]
Psychiatry Residency Training Base of Zhejiang Province
Zhejiang University Psychiatry Doctoral Degree Granting Facility
Sub-center of Forensic Psychiatry of Zhejiang University Forensic Appraisal Center
Teaching unit responsible for international students of Zhejiang University School of Medicine
[Medical Care Service]
The Department of Psychiatry offers an exceptional depth and breadth of patient services, including general and specialty outpatient care for adults and adolescents; psychological assessment services; consultation-liaison services; psychotherapy; forensic psychiatry services. The Department offers comprehensive consultation, diagnosis, and treatment services to patients with depression, schizophrenia, and a host of other disorders such as anxiety, panic, bipolar, obsessive compulsive, and post-traumatic stress. Neuroimaging scans, early detection and integrative intervention of sleep disorders and cognitive impairment are at a leading domestic level.
[Direction of Research]
The main clinical research directions include cognitive disorders, affective disorders, sleep disorders, schizophrenia and substance addiction behavior intervention with a focus on the early diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders, construction of clinical efficacy with biological predictors, and development of evaluation technology; research and development of individualized precise transcranial magnetic stimulation and other new physical therapy technologies, as well as its application in the treatment of cognitive, emotional, obsessive, sleep, schizophrenia and other diseases.
[Achievement of Research]
In the past five years, our department has been awarded 13 projects of the Natural Science Foundation of China, 1 project of the 973 Program, 2 national key research and development projects on Chronic diseases, 1 key international cooperation project, and 1 Key Research and Development Project of Zhejiang Province. More than 70 SCI/SSCI papers have been published. Moreover, our department has participated in more than 10 international and domestic multi-center phase II and III clinical trials of new drugs, involving the research and development of new drugs for Alzheimer's dementia, depression disorder and sleep disorder.