Guangzhou · Founded 1910
First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University↗
The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, founded in 1910, is South China's top-ranked hospital (A++++). Its surgical teams invented ischemia-free organ transplantation — world firsts in liver, kidney, and heart.
A dedicated International Medical Center opened at its Nansha campus in 2023.
Booking as an international patient
- Department
- Jianhua International Healthcare Center (opened March 2025)
- Contacts
Phone · +86 20 8733 2200 ext. 8225 — special-needs outpatient registration
Email · zsyyvip@163.com — special-needs outpatient centre
Online · The hospital’s app or its WeChat official account (passport registration)
Phone · +86 20 8999 8001 — Nansha campus switchboard (separate International Medical Center there)
- Languages
- Not stated on the source page
- Payment
- Direct settlement with contracted commercial insurers at the special-needs outpatient centre; cash and foreign cards are not stated.
- Hours
- Special-needs outpatient Mon–Fri 8:00–12:00 and 14:30–17:30, Sat 8:00–12:00
The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University opened the Jianhua International Healthcare Center in the Joseph Lau Medical Building, 58 Zhongshan Er Road, Guangzhou, in March 2025, but we found no separate phone or email for it on the hospital’s website. The registration line and email listed here belong to the hospital’s special-needs outpatient centre, which its English International Medicine page gives for registration. The Nansha campus runs a separate International Medical Center, reached through the campus switchboard. Real-name registration applies; foreign patients use a passport.
FAH-SYSU special-needs outpatient page · Booking information checked:
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All international patient departmentsListed specialists at this hospital
- Kuang MingChief Physician / ProfessorHepatobiliary, pancreatic, and splenic disease — surgery for primary and metastatic liver cancer and hilar cholangiocarcinoma, including laparoscopic/robotic liver and pancreatic resection and tumor ablation therapies.
- Li ShaoqiangChief Physician / ProfessorSurgical and perioperative management of liver, biliary, pancreatic, and splenic disease — open and minimally invasive surgery for liver cancer, and targeted- and immunotherapy-based conversion therapy for advanced cases.
- He XiaoshunChief Physician / Professor (department lead)Liver transplantation for end-stage liver disease, isolated liver perfusion for liver cancer, extracorporeal liver support for liver failure, and intestinal and multi-organ transplantation.
- Dong YugangChief Physician, Professor (Director, Cardiovascular Medicine Center; Doctoral Supervisor)Artificial cardiac pacing and critical cardiovascular disease; diagnosis and treatment of coronary heart disease, heart failure, arrhythmia, and hypertension.
- Wang YuChief Physician (Deputy Director, Interventional Oncology; Master's Supervisor)Comprehensive treatment, clinical and translational research of neuroendocrine tumors; drug and device clinical trials.
- Wang ChangxiSecond-Grade Professor; First-Grade Chief PhysicianKidney transplantation in elderly uremia patients (over 65) with complex comorbidities; pediatric kidney transplantation; transplantation from pediatric donors.
- Zheng ZhaominChief Physician / Professor (Deputy Director, Spine Surgery; Doctoral Supervisor)Spine surgery with an emphasis on minimally invasive techniques — scoliosis correction in children and adolescents, and minimally invasive surgery for degenerative scoliosis in older adults, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, cervical spondylosis, spinal tumors and spinal fractures.
- Wang LichunChief Physician (Deputy Director, Cardiology Division I; Doctoral Supervisor)Diagnosis and treatment of arrhythmia, syncope, inherited heart disease, cardiomyopathy and heart failure; catheter ablation of all types of arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation/flutter, PVCs/ventricular tachycardia, SVT), left atrial appendage closure, and implantation of pacemakers, ICDs and CRT devices.
- Chen LingwuSecond-Grade Professor / First-Grade Chief Physician (Director, Department of Urology; Chair, Department of Surgery)Minimally invasive surgery — especially robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy preserving sexual function and continence, and nephron-sparing surgery for benign and malignant kidney tumors; diagnosis and treatment of kidney, bladder and prostate cancer, congenital urinary-tract anomalies (duplex kidney, ureteropelvic anomalies, retrocaval ureter, megaureter), adrenal tumors and benign prostatic hyperplasia.
- Yao ShuzhongChief Physician / Professor (Director, Department of Gynecology)Endoscopic surgery for benign and malignant gynecologic tumors, with particular experience in laparoscopic surgery for uterine malignancies and deep infiltrating endometriosis — including laparoscopic radical hysterectomy, pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy, bowel endometriosis resection with anastomosis, excision of urinary-tract endometriosis, ureteral end-to-end anastomosis and ureteral reimplantation.
- Song WuChief Physician / Professor (Director, Gastrointestinal Surgery Division III; Doctoral Supervisor)Robotic and laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery and multimodality treatment for esophageal cancer, GIST, gastric and colorectal tumors and pancreatic tumors; bariatric and metabolic surgery — sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass and surgery for obesity with type 2 diabetes; extensive experience with hiatal, inguinal and incisional hernias.
- Zhou CanquanChief Physician / Professor (Chief Expert and Academic Lead, Obstetrics & Gynecology)Assisted reproductive technology and the management of its complex problems, and reproductive endocrine disorders such as polycystic ovary syndrome; preimplantation genetic diagnosis and fertility preservation.
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