"Child from the Stars" "An Angel Who Doesn't Become the World" Behind the seemingly beautiful name is the heavy memory left by genetic defects. On the afternoon of October 26, the Shanghai Children's Hospital's comprehensive medical genetic clinic was newly upgraded in the Luding Road Campus Special Outpatient Clinic, providing high-quality integrated medical genetic services from the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of genetic diseases, and providing indispensable professional support for patients and families with genetic diseases and birth defects.
Medical Genetic Clinic is located on the first floor of Luding Road Hospital. After the new upgrade of the medical genetic clinic, the first batch of more mature departments related to genetic diseases will be launched for free medical consultations for genetic specialized diseases. On the same day, Professor Zeng Yitao, the four internationally renowned medical genetics, the first batch of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor Zeng Yitao, a famous medical geneticist and tenured professor of Shanghai Children's Hospital, Chief Scientist of the National Major Research Program Project, Professor Zeng Fanyi, Professor Ren Zhaorui, Professor Ren Wenyan, and Lu Yongfen, a number of specialized diseases and other specialized diseases in children's hospitals, jointly held a free consultation clinic for genetic consultation.
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Medical genetics outpatient clinic will effectively promote the precise diagnosis and treatment of children's genetic diseases and the prevention and control of birth defects in children, consolidate the diagnosis and treatment level of hospital genetics and rare diseases , further promote the close integration of basic research and clinical practice in the Yangtze River Delta region, promote the development of medical genetic discipline construction, and benefit patients and families of genetic diseases and birth defects. In the future, Beijing West Road Hospital will develop and expand the genetic counseling clinic to provide systematic genetic counseling, including interpreting gene testing reports, psychological counseling, helping children's families choose appropriate treatments, and introducing new knowledge about genetic diseases and other services. Professor Zeng Fanyi said: "Our genetic clinic and genetic counseling clinic include not only doctors, but also psychological experts, data interpretation experts, and many avant-garde methods to carry out treatments, and find the means and support to conquer this disease."
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Shanghai Children's Hospital established a genetic counseling clinic as early as the early 1980s. Academician Zeng Yitao, the first director of the Shanghai Medical Genetics Research Institute of Shanghai Children's Hospital, is one of the main founders and pioneers of genetic diagnosis in China, and has won many lifelong achievement awards such as the "Top Ten Medical Masters". Over the past 40 years, Academician Zeng Yitao and Professor Huang Shujian have led the team to gain fruitful scientific research results, fill many gaps in domestic medical genetics research, and cultivate and create a large number of high-end Chinese medical genetics talents. Genetic diagnosis has now been widely used in clinical practice, and more families of patients with genetic diseases will benefit in the future.
