Meet April's Feature Institutions

Beijing Anzhen Hospital, in combination with the Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung & Blood Vessel Diseases, was founded in April 1984 with the vision of creating a premier hospital facility in China that could provide a full range of medical services while place special focus on cardiac surgery, cardiology, pediatric cardiology & cardiac surgery, vascular surgery, thoracic surgery, respiratory medicine and emergency medicine. Beijing Anzhen Hospital became a medical teaching center of the Capital Medical University in 1991 and formed a superior medical entity including integrating medical treatment, teaching, scientific research, prevention and international exchange in medicine. In 2014, Beijing Anzhen Hospital was named the National Clinical Research Center of Cardiovascular Diseases of China. The Cardiology Center and its Cardiac Electrophysiology Division is headed by Prof. Chang-Sheng Ma who is a renowned clinician and academician in the field of cardiology in China and worldwide.

Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital was founded in 1946 and is the biggest cardiovascular center in Southern China. The cardiac electrophysiology team has been a pioneer discipline team in Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital. More than 3,000 electrophysiology study and ablation procedure per year, including more than 1,000 atrial fibrillation catheter ablation procedure, are performed. Meanwhile, more than 5,000 cardiac surgeries per year, including more than 200 atrial fibrillation trans-thoracoscopy mini-MAZE ablation procedure, are performed.