Ophthalmology Department of Children's Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University
was established in 2004, and in 2022, it was listed as one of the "Municipal Children's Visual Health Standardized Diagnosis and Treatment Centers" in Shanghai. In 2024, it became a key member of the China Myopia Prevention and Control Capacity Building Alliance.
Yang Chenhao, the chief of the ophthalmology department, serves as the deputy chairperson of the Ophthalmology Group of the Pediatrics Branch of the Chinese Medical Association and the deputy chairperson of the Ophthalmology Group of the Pediatrics Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association. The department has a complete talent team, with currently 18 doctors (including 1 chief physician, 1 associate chief physician, 13 attending physicians, and 3 resident physicians), 13 optometrists, and 8 specialized nurses.
The ophthalmology department has an independent ward with 10 fixed beds and a day surgery ward. It performs over 2,000 surgeries under general anesthesia annually and sees approximately 180,000 outpatients each year. Clinically, it has been conducting various complex strabismus correction surgeries, treatment of retinopathy of prematurity, comprehensive treatment of retinoblastoma, personalized prevention and control of myopia, correction of ptosis, correction of congenital small palpebral fissure, correction of epicanthus, and correction of trichiasis on a large scale. It was the first in China to carry out central tenotomy of the rectus muscle for the treatment of small-angle strabismus and the first in children's specialized hospitals to conduct fundus fluorescein angiography in infants (including newborns) and prevention and treatment of pathological myopia. The department has three sub-specialties: strabismus and amblyopia, pediatric retinal diseases, and eyelid and orbital diseases, and offers more than 10 specialized pediatric ophthalmology clinics.
Ophthalmology research and clinical practice go hand in hand. We have completed multiple major clinical multi-center research projects funded by the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission and Shanghai Shen Kang. We have also led projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation. In recent years, we have initiated several high-quality RCT studies and published more than 10 SCI papers each year.
