This hospital has 1,120 beds and 125 medical personnel with senior professional titles, nearly 100 of whom hold either PhD or master’s degrees, and7 graduate advisors. The institute has focused on vigorously developing special technologies for organ transplantation.651

The institute became the first hospital in the northeastern region to carry out kidney transplantation in the early 1990s.652 Its quantity of kidney transplants performed and graft survival rate lead domestically.653 It has always maintained a leading technical position in the military and in the region of Shenyang City and Liaoning Province.654 In 2004, the institute became the first hospital under the Shenyang Military Command to perform an orthotopic liver transplant successfully.655

The hospital is the home to the Liaoning Province Eye Bank, which claims to be the largest corneal bank in the northeastern region and have the most abundant source of highest-quality corneas.656

Guo Hongxin, director of the urologic surgery department, is also the director of urologic surgery center at Shenyang Military Command. He successfully conducted the first kidney transplant surgery in 1997 and made significant contributions to urologic surgery in Liaoning Province. He led more than 20 minimally invasive surgeries and is known as a pioneer in that field of kidney transplantation. He is the deputy director of Liaoning Province Organ Transplant Professional Committee. In 1979 he was among the first group of urology doctors to be sent to Britain and America for study. He won third prize of military research award twice and published more than 20 papers.657 658

Shi Qixing, deputy director of the urologic surgery department, has been involved in kidney transplantation since early 1990s. He is also a member of the Liaoning Province Organ Transplant Professional Committee. 659