Date: 12/14/2010
TUMSPR News: Professor Wie-gang Fang, the vice-president for Research of Peking University Health Science Center, met with Dr. Mahmoud Ghazi-khansari, to look for ways of collaboration between the two institutions on Dec. 12, 2010.
The vice-president for Research of Peking University Health Science Center, Professor Wie-gang Fang, met with Dr. Mahmoud Ghazi-khansari, the director of Tehran University of Medical University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) International Relations Office to look for ways of collaboration between the two institutions on Dec. 12, 2010.
In the beginning, Dr. Fang, a pathologist and president of Chinese Society of Metastasis Research outlined the objectives of his visit to the university as collaborating in areas of interest to both parties and signing follow up memorandum of understandings.
Welcoming professor Fang, Dr. Ghazi-khansari, briefly introduced the university, its educational programs, faculties, research centers, national and international ranks in research and education, international branches on Kish Island and Karaj, a city on the western part of Tehran, and the will of the university for expanding its international collaborations via exchange of students and faculties, and holding joint degrees.
Similarly, Dr. Fang, introducing the Peking University and its four major faculties briefly explained the history of Health Science Center during its establishment in 1912 to the present time. Presently the Center has 11 schools and an institute and 1 division, namely, School of Basic Medical Sciences, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Public Health, School of Nursing, School of Stomatology, the First School of Clinical Medicine (Beida Hospital), the Second School of Clinical Medicine(the people’s Hospital), the Third School of Clinical Medicine (the Third Hospital), Institute of Mental Health (the Sixth Hospital), the School of Oncology (Beijing Tumor Hospital), Peking University Shenzhen School of Medicine, Peking University School of Telemedical Education, and the Division of Humanity and Fundamental Sciences. In addition, 15 hospitals in Beijing serve as teaching hospital. The Center has 10516 staff, 1874 professors and 12 academicians with 3005 students at undergraduate and 3319 at postgraduate levels and a total of 631 international students. The language spoken in classes is Chinese.
Professor Fang put the number of beds at the Center’s 8 hospitals at 6897, with a total number of yearly 227,700 inpatient and 896,000 outpatient admissions.
Finally he hoped this visit will bring about tangible collaborations especially in joint Dr-PhD programs, joint research, and student and staff exchange.
Dr. Fang visited TUMS Cancer Institute, two radiotherapy wards and the tumor databank of the pathology ward after leaving the Office.
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