The 6th Zhejiang University graduate international workshop for orthopedic was held

2021-11-09   |   Office of International Affairs

To promote cooperation and communication with world first-class universities and research institutes, to inspire students for clinical medical research, to better understand the forefront of medical development, and to expand global knowledge, the international workshop project is designed for graduate students by Zhejiang University to encourage different disciplines to be involved. This project is established and led by the team of Professor YE Zhaoming, Director, Department of orthopedic, from the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine.  

Considering of the pandemic, online international exchange workshop for orthopedic postgraduate’s project was held during the last five months on March 6th, April 21st, June 12th, July 22nd, and September 16th separately with 16 lessons. Participants involve hospital experts, professors from the United States, UK, Canada, Singapore and other world famous research universities to provide expert lectures, case discussions, surgery demonstrations focusing on bone tumor, joint and spine etc..

On March 6th, Professor Naresh Kumar, School of Medicine, National University of Singapore gave a lecture to explore the intraoperative blood recovery of spinal metastatic tumor surgery, thoracic thyroid cancer metastasis, spinal metastatic tumor curetta decompression and internal fixation medical record discussion. 

On April 21st, Professor Sarah Ward, Dr. Susan Bragg and Dr. Spencer Montgomery from St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada, shared great ideas with participants, focusing on the experience of total joint replacement in day surgery and postoperative rehabilitation methods. On June 12th, Hue Luu, MD, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Fabio Orozco, MD, Philadelphia Thomas Jefferson hospital gave the lecture on possible problems of the total knee replacement surgery operation assisted by the Mako robot.On July 22nd, Professor Alistair Irwin of The Royal Victoria Hospital talked about how to improve the quality of life of patients by using accurate methods of spinal tumor resection such as needle biopsy, imaging and clinical surgery.  On September 16th, Professor Alistair Irwin of The Royal Victoria Hospital, answered and discussed the questions raised last time again. It reviewed the treatment progress of spinal tumor, the methods of targeted radiotherapy and proton radiotherapy for osteosarcoma.

The Orthopedic Center in the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine is one of the national leading orthopedic centers, the first batch of national key specialty as well as the clinical national orthopedic cultivate discipline. Up to now, it established partnership with global top medical centers including the Royal Orthopedic Hospital (NHS), New York Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Reagan Medical Center, Cleveland Medical Center (CCF).