May 26 saw the unfolding of the PUMCH-Mayo Clinic International Seminar on Hospital High-quality Development and Management Innovation organized by the Department of Internal Medicine and the International Collaboration Office, PUMCH. Four medical and management experts from Mayo Clinic of the United States, visited PUMCH, had in-depth exchanges with various clinical departments, and delivered academic presentations of various themes where experts of both sides had animated discussions on new medical models and cutting-edge technologies.

Vice President Han Ding delivered a warm welcome speech on behalf of PUMCH, and Li Xuemei, Director of the Department of Internal Medicine, moderated the seminar and briefed the audience about the agenda.

▲Vice President Han Ding was delivering a speech

▲Director Li Xuemei was moderating the event

Margaret Paulson, Medical Director, Advanced Care at Home & Home Health Mayo Clinic Health System, introduced the Advanced Care at Home program implemented by Mayo Clinic since 2020. Allowing patients to receive care from the comfort of their home, this model has helped Mayo Clinic reduce inpatient days by 3,000, registered a 91.3% patient recommendation rate, and has been recognized and supported by the U.S. healthcare administrative departments.

▲Margaret Paulson, Medical Director, Advanced Care at Home & Home Health Mayo Clinic Health System, was delivering a presentation

Brendon Colaco, a pulmonologist in Mayo Clinic-Jacksonville, shared practices of promoting clinical innovations with industrial development. Mayo Clinic has established Innovation Exchange, a platform for accelerating commercialization and facilitating innovation exchanges. Mayo Clinic Ventures was set up as its own VC arm, dedicated to carrying out extensive cooperation for spotting and incubating new technologies and new programs.

▲Brendon Colaco, a pulmonologist in Mayo Clinic-Jacksonville, was delivering a presentation

Nephrologist Sandra Taler presented on “Precision Medicine on High Blood Presure”, and rheumatologist Elena Myasoedova “Towards The Individualized in Rheumatic Diseases”.

▲Nephrologist Sandra Taler was making a presentation

▲Rheumatologist Elena Myasoedova was making a presentation

The seminar drew several hundred of PUMCH medical staff members, who had exchanges with the speakers on a wide array of topics such as the development of hypertension guidelines, changes in blood pressure targets for hypertension patients, shared decision-making, the application of AI in lung cancer and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), telemedicine, medical consortium-based cooperation and integrated multidisciplinary management.

▲The Q&A

Director Li Xuemei showed the four experts of Mayo Clinic around PUMCH. Along the way, she introduced the history, organizational structure, residency and postdoctoral training programs of the Department of Internal Medicine and expressed the wish to deepen and broaden collaboration with Mayo Clinic in talent cultivation and many other areas.

▲Group picture of the Mayo Clinic experts and core members of the Department of Internal Medicine as well as the secretary of teaching in front of the portrait of Professor Zhang Xiaoqian

Written by Fu Tanpin and Yang Deyan

Pictures courtesy of the Department of Internal Medicine

Translated by Liu Haiyan

Edited by Yan Xiaobo, Chen Mingyan and Wang Yao