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In 2008, MUSC President
Ray Greenberg, M.D., Ph.D., signed a
collaborative agreement with the Nanjing
Drum Tower Hospital in China to become
sister institutions.
John Bradley, M.D., an
alumnus of the MUSC College of Medicine,
began the sister institution more than 100
years ago as a missionary in the Chinese
town of Suquian.
Joseph Romagnuolo,
M.D., president of the faculty senate at
MUSC, recently visited the Nanjing Drum
Tower Hospital as a keynote speaker on
Advances in Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS).
 Dr. Joseph
Romagnuolo, president of the faculty
senate at MUSC, demonstrates a procedure
at Chongqing in an endoscopy suite at
Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital in China.
Working with Romagnuolo is Dr. Qiang Cai
from Emory.
The hospital was
celebrating its 120th anniversary and the
opening of a new endoscopy center. Last
year, Romagnuolo mentored Chunyan Peng, a
Nanjing student who recently completed her
Master of Science degree in clinical
research at MUSC.
Romagnuolo also
lectured at another conference in
Chongqing at the Military University
Xinqiao Hospital. That same month, he
participated in live endoscopy courses at
both institutions to demonstrate advanced
endoscopic procedures including endoscopic
retrograde cholangiopancreatogram (ERCP)
with pancreatic therapy and EUS with fine
needle aspiration. He also spoke to
Chinese medical students and junior
faculty in Chongqing about how to get
started in clinical research,
epidemiologic studies and economic
modeling.
According to
Romagnuolo, working with Chongqing course
director Dr. Lei Wang, an endoscopist with
one of the highest volume practices in the
world on endoscopic submucosal dissection
for GI tumors, was an honor. "I thoroughly
enjoyed my trip to Nanjing Drum Tower
Hospital for its 120th anniversary in
November, and the opening of their 'new'
hospital."
Friday, Feb.
1, 2013
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