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Fudan and Hoover Institution Co-hosts Health Care Reform Seminar
The Health Care Reform Seminar was held on Fenglin Campus, Fudan University, co-organized by School of Public Health at Fudan University and Hoover Institution in Stanford University. Over 80 scholars and students attended the seminar.
Prof. Daniel Kessler, Prof. Kate Bundorf and Prof. David Brady from Stanford University talked about health care system in U.S., its problems and contemporary health care reform, analyzing the characteristics of the difference between the public and private health insurance systems, discussing the challenges that health care fund is facing now. They illustrated various details of difficulties in health care reform in U.S.A.
Prof. Xue Di, Prof. Ying Xiaohua, Prof. Liu Bao from School of Public Health at Fudan University talked about relevant issues of health care in China. They introduced the general goal and policies of the reform of public hospitals in China, discussing the challenges that the public hospitals are facing in Shanghai now. They offered proposals at the same time, elaborating the reform of China’s national medical insurance reform. They analyzed the main problems of medical disputes in hospitals and offered the solutions.
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The 14th Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design Concludes
On April 14, The 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (CSCWD 2010) was held at Fudan University. Vice President Jin Li and CSCWD Chairman Prof. Barthès jointly opened the conference and delivered speeches. Prof. Gu Ning from Department of Computer Science presided over the meeting. Prof. Sun Chengzheng of School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang University of Science and Technology in Singapore, gave a keynote speech on “Operational Transformation: Research and Application”.
Sponsored by IEEE, CSCWD was successfully held ever since 1996. During the three-day meeting of CSCWD 2010, over 200 participants from 20 countries and regions gathered at Fudan University.
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Joint EMBA by Fudan and Taiwan University Launched
On April 13 2010, Chinese EMBA was officially launched by the joint efforts of Fudan University and Taiwan University. As the very first collaboration between the Mainland China and Taiwan in the field of business education, this partnership is of historical significance in terms of cross-strait cultural exchanges.
30 students will be enrolled from each side and a biennium module with 12 core courses and 6 professional courses will be adopted. The applicants shall have more than 10 years of working experience and 6 years of high-level management experience. The first official opening will be in September this year. The program will bring top-class faculties from both institutions, and pay equal attention to international perspective and know-how of China.
The press conference for program launch was held simultaneously in Shanghai and Taipei via video connection. The conference was co-chaired by the chief executive of EMBA program in Taiwan University Professor Chen Hongji and attended by Vice Chancellor of Taiwan University Professor Tang Mingzhe; Dean of Management Institution of National Taiwan University, Professor Hung Maowei. Prof. Chen’s counterpart at Fudan University Professor Lu Xiongwen introduced the achievements in Fudan and Taiwan’s EMBA development to more than 40 media from both sides. The cooperation of EMBA program is to pool the advantages of both schools to create the world's top Chinese EMBA program.
Currently 10% of Fudan EMBA students are from Taiwan. In 2007 Fudan University and Taiwan University conducted first course exchange and in August 2008, Fudan business students visited Taiwan.
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Zhongshan Hospital Completes 1st Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Resection of Esophageal Cancer
Thoracic Surgery Department of Fudan affiliating Zhongshan Hospital successfully implemented first robot-assisted laparoscopic resection of esophageal cancer. The patient has been released from hospital.
Regular surgeries for esophageal cancer will affect both chest and abdomen, of which the incisions will grow into more than 15cm long with hemorrhage and severe pain. It also affects cardiorespiratory function. Supported by the leader of the program Dr. Wang Qun, Dr. Fan Hong and Dr. Jiang Wei successfully completed the surgeries on the patient with the help of the robot.
Only several 1cm incisions are made during the surgery. Robot arms are controlled by the surgeons, inserting into the patients’ body. Since the surgery doesn’t require cutting off ribs or breathing muscles, the time of the surgery has been shortened to one third of the previous. At the same time, since the robot arm reduces the surgical trauma, the patients recover sooner than usual, receiving better results. The success of this attempt makes up for the blank page of this area in surgery, which also enhances the leading position of Zhongshan Hospital in minimally invasive surgery.
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Opening and JCI Awarding Ceremony of Shanghai International Hospital Held at Huashan Hospital
Thoracic Surgery Department of Fudan affiliating Zhongshan Hospital successfully implemented first robot-assisted laparoscopic resection of esophageal cancer. The patient has been released from hospital.
Regular surgeries for esophageal cancer will affect both chest and abdomen, of which the incisions will grow into more than 15cm long with hemorrhage and severe pain. It also affects cardiorespiratory function. Supported by the leader of the program Dr. Wang Qun, Dr. Fan Hong and Dr. Jiang Wei successfully completed the surgeries on the patient with the help of the robot.
Only several 1cm incisions are made during the surgery. Robot arms are controlled by the surgeons, inserting into the patients’ body. Since the surgery doesn’t require cutting off ribs or breathing muscles, the time of the surgery has been shortened to one third of the previous. At the same time, since the robot arm reduces the surgical trauma, the patients recover sooner than usual, receiving better results. The success of this attempt makes up for the blank page of this area in surgery, which also enhances the leading position of Zhongshan Hospital in minimally invasive surgery.
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Water Pollution-control Research Center Established
Water Pollution-control Research Center was established on April 6, 2010，The Center pools advantages of multi-discipline resources from environment, materials, biology and economy and aims at integration of production - learning - research functions. Fang Fang, Deputy Director of Shanghai Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, attended the ceremony and delivered a speech. Professor Jin Li, Vice President of Fudan University and Jin Xiangcan, Honorary Director and a top scientist in water protection, co-inaugurated the center. Professor Zheng Zheng assumes directorship of the center.
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“Wangdao Program” Launched at Fudan
After intensive and careful preparations, Fudan officially launched “Wangdao Program” recently and selected Mathematics, Physic, Chemistry and Life Science as the four fundamental science subjects. Students interested in those subjects will be selected and enrolled in workshops.
Departments will invite the best faculty members to chair the workshops while the students will have opportunities to study at top research institutes abroad. Wangdao Program aims to fully develop the students’ potential by integrating the best resources and orienting the study to intensive researches. Currently the Department of Physics has completed student selection.
In future, “Wangdao Program” will include Literature, History, Philosophy and Basic Medicine as well. Wangdao is a result of a national training program of top students from basic science subjects which is also called “Everest Program” in Chinese higher education institutes started in the end of last year. The first 11 selected universities for this program are Peking University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Nankai University, University of Science and Technology of China, Nanjing University, Zhejiang University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Jilin University and Sichuan University.
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The Youthful Expo - A Thematic Music Festival Hosted by Fudan
Fudan University and Shanghai World Expo Bureau will jointly host a thematic music festival entitled “The Youthful Expo” from July 4 to 18. The Music Festival will bring together students from Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Sydney, Nottingham, Liverpool and Cambridge Universities as well as top Chinese universities such as Fudan, Tsinghua, Peking, and Jiao Tong. Students will stage a series of music exchange activities during the festival.
This will be the first time in China as well as in the history of Expo that such a large scale, high-level elite Youth Music Festival will be held. During the two-week long festival, activities will not only be staged on Expo Square but also in Xintiandi, university campuses and communities. Organizers will provide more middle school students with opportunities to exchange with world-class universities.
Highlights of the grand gathering include:
Ø On July 5, students from eight world top universities Yale, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Tsing-Hua, Peking, Fudan and Jiao Tong will jointly stage an unprecedented grand music event combining art and culture. The music event includes musical party, university forums and interactive activities among world renowned musicians.
Ø Youth Expo Center is located in the former Jiangnan Shipyard. The organizer will send an Honor Memorial Medal produced by old shipbuilding steel plate to each team as a special gift.
Ø During the Music Festival, Chen Gang, the composer of violin concerto Butterfly Lovers, will play this famous Violin Concerto with British Chamber Orchestra Eton College and Shanghai Nan Yang Model School.
Ø The Oxford University Big Band is the oldest jazz band currently running out of the University of Oxford. It is the first ever big band to perform in Oxford's most famous concert hall, the Sheldonian Theatre. Callum Au, a 19-year-old genius conductor of the Oxford University Big Band, hopes to compose a rhapsody for Shanghai Expo to demonstrate the vitality of Shanghai.
Ø 30 professional dancers led by Professor Aly Rose from New York University and Chinese exchange student Yang Leng from Columbia University will bring the audience a dynamic display of Fly Dance and it will be the first time in the history of Expo that such a large-scale and multi-forms of art to be displayed.
Ø Organizers will invite leaders from China and other nations, cities and business field to enjoy the concert and expand exchanges with them. At that time the "current leaders" and "future leaders" will carry out exchange ideas on "how we will start".
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Prof. Tang Shiping’s Article Published on European Journal of International Relations
Prof. Tang Shiping from Fudan School of International Relations and Public Affairs published an article on European Journal of International Relations (EJIR), the world top journal in international politics, with the title of “Social evolution of international politics: From Mearsheimer to Jervis”.
In his article, Prof. Tang advances a “social evolution paradigm (SEP)” and hence provides a macro explanation of social evolution for the systematic transformation of international politics from 1044/6BC till the end of WW II in 1945. By reviewing the ancient Chinese system as well as the European system after the Roman Empire, he contends that the human society has evolved from an offensive realism world (i.e., countries will either expand or be annexed) to a defensive realism world (i.e., countries can achieve safety without expanding). Apart from explaining the systematic evolution of international politics, Prof. Tang’s theory also neatly resolves the debate between offensive realism and defensive realism, and has great significance for countries to seek for national safety in the current “defensive realism world”.
The article is part of Prof. Tang’s third English monographs Social Evolution of International Politics. Prof. Tang is the first Chinese scholar to publish on EJIR, the world top journal in international politics.
Shiping Tang, “Social Evolution of International Politics: From Mearsheimer to Jervis”, European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 16, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 31-55. (http://ejt.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/1/31)
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Honorary Professorship by Fudan Art Center
On April 1, Prof. Wolfgang Mastnak was conferred Advisory Professorship and Prof. Yu Danhong was conferred Adjunct Professorship by Fudan University. Fudan Chancellor Qin Shaode and Vice President Xu Zheng were present at the ceremony together with 400 faculty and students. Followed by the ceremony was a concert named “Spring at Fudan” performed together by Prof. Wolfgang Mastnak and Soprano Prof. Wang Zuoxin.
Prof. Wolfgang Mastnak made an appreciation remark in Chinese language and expressed his wishes to establish long-term collaboration with Fudan University in Latin. Prof. Yu Danhong gave the audience her performance of improvisation.
Prof. Wolfgang Mastnak is from University of Music and Perfroming Arts Munich while Prof. Yu Danhong is from Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Their conferment would help to promote music education and research at Fudan.
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Prof. Yang Yingzhen Presented Distinguished Contribution Award by China Medical Women Association
Fudan Prof. Yang Yingzhen from Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, together with the other 19 women medical workers nationwide won the Distinguished Contribution Award for the Year 2010 sponsored by China Medical Women Association (CMWA) on its awarding ceremony in Beijing this April.
Yang Yingzhen, Professor in cardiology from Zhongshan Hospital, focuses her research on cardiology, virology and electrophysiology. It is Prof. Yang who first established Laboratory of Viral Heart Diseases and the outpatient service in cardiomyopathy in China. The project which Prof. Yang Yingzhen has been granted 18 research funds including those from National Natural Science Fund, WHO and Wellcome Trust. With 200 scientific papers and several academic works published, Prof. Yang received many national awards and titles.
Founded in 1995, CMWA aims to unite women medical practitioners to devote themselves to medical advancement, to enhance academic research on medicine, and to strengthen mutual understanding, exchanges and cooperation among women medical practitioners. Distinguished Contribution Award of CMWA was formally initiated to reward female medical practitioners who make outstanding contributions to medical advancement.
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Oxford Vice-Chancellor Lectured at Fudan
On April 29, Prof. Andrew Hamilton, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University visited Fudan University and lectured to Fudan students on the topic of “World-class University in the 21st Century”.
During his speech, Prof. Hamilton introduced the history and strategies of future development of Oxford University. In his opinion, world-class university is a unique institute for both its own nation and the global society. World-class university should bear the important responsibility of cultural heritage and talent training. Prof. Hamilton remarked that Oxford and Fudan shall work together to enhance cultural exchange, civilization dialogue as well as to seek the solutions for energy crisis and climate changes, etc.
Before the lecture, Fudan Vice President Gui Yonghao met the Vice-Chancellor and both sides agreed to further the cooperation on student exchanges and joint research.
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Visit by Dutch Prime Minister
On April 30, H.E.Dr. J. P. Balkenende, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, visited Fudan University accompanied by Ambassador Rudolf Bekink and Consul General Erick Verwaal. Chancellor Qin Shaode received the delegation headed by the Prime Minister and welcomed him to give a lecture for the students on the topic of “The relations between the Netherlands, Europe and China”.
Prof. Ding Chun, Executive Director of Center for European Studies presided over the lecture and introduced the research and teaching at the Center in cooperation with Dutch universities. Prof. Poppema from Groningen University, as well as a dozen of Dutch exchange students at Fudan also joined the lecture. Prime Minister Balkenende’s lecture was part of the Dutch Day at Fudan.
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