
Guangzhou · Founded 1835
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University↗
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital grew out of the Canton Ophthalmic Infirmary founded by the missionary physician Peter Parker in 1835 — the first Western-medicine hospital in China, where Sun Yat-sen himself studied and practiced medicine. It holds the Fudan A+ tier.
Urology, breast surgery, and hepatobiliary surgery are among its flagship departments; the hospital is administered by the National Health Commission.
Booking as an international patient
- Department
- International Medical Center
- Contacts
Phone · +86 20 8133 8679 — appointments, working days 8:00–12:00 and 14:30–17:30
Phone · +86 20 8133 2792 — service line; purpose not stated
Phone · +86 181 0227 4035 — 24-hour emergency hotline (the page prints it with a Guangzhou area code)
Email · sysmhimc@mail.sysu.edu.cn — International Medical Center
Online · Hospital website or phone booking; walk-in visits also shown
- Languages
- Not stated on the source page
- Payment
- Commercial-insurance patients sign the insurance bill at payment (centre process chart); inpatient deposits by WeChat, Alipay, cash or bank card (hospital-wide page). Foreign cards are not specified.
- Hours
- Appointment line working days 8:00–12:00 and 14:30–17:30; emergency hotline 24 hours
Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital’s International Medical Center is listed on the hospital’s English site at 107 Yanjiang West Road (North Campus), Guangzhou; the building and floor are not stated. Its process chart shows booking through the hospital website or by phone, as well as walk-in visits, with check-in at the appointment desk using a passport or other valid ID.
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All international patient departmentsListed specialists at this hospital
- Huang JianProfessor, Chief PhysicianMinimally invasive robotic-assisted, standard and 3D laparoscopic surgery for urologic tumors — bladder, prostate, kidney, renal-pelvis and testicular cancers.
- Song ErweiProfessor, Chief Physician, Research ProfessorAmong the first surgeons in China to perform radical breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer; his monographs set national standards for breast-conserving therapy. Systematic research on the tumor microenvironment and tumor immunotherapy.
- Chen YajinProfessor, Chief PhysicianHighly accomplished in hepatobiliary-pancreatic tumors and gallstone disease; skilled in surgery-based multimodality treatment of complex hepatobiliary-pancreatic conditions, with multiple nationally leading minimally invasive techniques.
- Lu HuaiwuProfessor, Chief PhysicianDiagnosis and treatment of gynecologic malignancies — especially cervical, ovarian and endometrial cancer — with open and laparoscopic (single-port and robotic) surgery for benign and malignant gynecologic tumors.
- Wang JingfengProfessor, Chief PhysicianDeep expertise across cardiovascular medicine — complex and critical heart disease, interventional diagnosis and treatment, and especially cardiac device implantation.
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