US Top Hospitals See Influx of Chinese Patients (CCTV America-Mark Niu)

 

 

Stanford University Hospital Vice President for International Medical Services Barbara Ralston said, that Chinese patients have increased 127% in the last year. Out of 1000 calls from Chinese patients, 700 of them will eventually come for treatment. Dr.Qing Xiang, a M.D. from Zhejiang University in China, now work as a professor of Pain Medicine in Stanford University and referred a lot of Chinese patients to Stanford University Hospital. In University of California San Francisco Medical Center, Chinese patients have increased nearly 25% each year for the past five years. Cancer, cardiovascular, and neurological treatments are the top reasons that Chinese patients are coming to the American hospitals. But more patients are coming because they are interested in treating diseases impacted by environment. They are looking for assistance and managing disease environmental related disease, such as asthma, lung disease, and immunological diseases. Dr. Cohen said, “Chinese patients are good for hospitals not only for the hospital bottom line, but for medicine as a whole. The hospitals have a lot of research programs, precision medicine programs, which doctors try and evaluate how patients respond to therapy based on their genetic make-up and other characteristics. Having a large pool of patients from more diverse population is critically important to the hospital.”

Sino-U.S. Precision Medicine International Training Inaugural Class will be invited to the Texas Medical Center

 

U.S.-China Center for Medical Exchange and Hopson Medical Education and Development System will host Sino-U.S. Precision Medicine International Training Program. Executive director Dr. Wei Wu at U.S.-China Center for Medical Exchange and CEO Dr. Xin Ma at Hopson Medical Education and Development System collaborate on this special projects. Dr. Wu is in charge of all logistics of the program and Dr. Ma is in charge of academic design. The inaugural class will consist of 30 members of hospital presidents from China. They will from thirteen cities and eight different provinces in China. It is the first program of its kind. Dr. Wu and Dr. Ma had multiple successful experiences in training programs. This program hopefully will set a foundation for attracting more Chinese hospital presidents to Houston.

Duke Chairman Juyu Chen from Shengyang Xiehe Group visited Texas Medical Center

 

Duke Chairman Juyu Chen and three other professors from Shenyang Xiehe Group, China visited MD Anderson Cancer Center at the Texas Medical Center on September 5th and 6th, 2016. During the visit they met with Dr. Dongfeng Tan from MD Anderson Cancer Center and discussed in depth the ascites derived from cancers such as liver cancer, ovarian cancer, and other cancers. U.S.-China Center for Medical Exchange organized the visit. Project manager Dr. Frieda Li headed the project and accompanied the group from the beginning to the end. Chairman Chen and the visitors were pleased with the visit and said it was exceeded their expectation.

During the visit, Dr. Xiaoling Zhang from Xiehe Group presented their experience with and therapeutic efficacy of superantigen Stahylococcal enterotoxin C (SEC) on ascites. With an efficacy of 93% for the elimination of ascites without recurrence, Dr. Tan was impressed with the results. The representatives from both organizations agreed to support the establishment of an Ascites Therapeutic Center for confirmation of SEC’s effects in patients from both China and the US. The China-US Exchange Center and Shenyang Xiehe Group also considered the potential cooperation on and marketing of other products in the US.

Health Human Resources Development Center Deputy Director General Dr. Junhua Zhang visited MD Anderson Cancer Center

 

Deputy Director General Dr. Junhua Zhang and Chief of Operation Ms. Lei Gao at Health Human Resources Development Center (formerly under the Department of Public Health) headed a group of distinguished guests to visit Texas Medical Center. Ha Erbin First Hospitals administrators Dr. Dongfeng Shi, Dr. Yu Guan and Dr. Hongda Wu were among the visitors. It was their first time to visit Houston, Texas. Texas Medical Center left a great impression on them. The organization that Dr. Zhang and Ms. Gao work for is in charge of hospital administrator’ training in China. They hope to bring more people to visit Texas Medical Center.