Mission

As part of the Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine, the Department of Nutrition strives to deliver high quality, efficient and patient-focused nutrition services and to promote the study and practice of clinical nutrition.

Nutrition Services Provided

• The Department of Nutrition provides comprehensive nutrition services both for in-patients and for out-patients in our hospital.

• Diagnosis and nutrition therapy of Overweight/Obesity, diabetes, hyperlipoidemia, and other nutrition-related diseases

• One-on-one outpatient nutrition counseling in specialty areas, including management of nutrition-related diseases, oncology nutrition, pediatric nutrition, maternal nutrition, wellness nutrition

• Nutritional Management of Epilepsy Patients

• Assessment of nutritional status and nutritional requirements

• Monitoring and design of suitable diet/feeding regimens to meet the needs of the diverse patient populations

• Enteral/parenteral nutrition support and home nutrition support

• Determine adaptive nutrition therapy in critically ill patients

• Patient nutrition education and professional staff education

Continuing Education

With education as an important part of the department’s work, a lot of future dietitians and other healthcare staffs have spent their formative years in continuing education programs set up by our department.

• The national continuing medical education program: The Hierarchical and Gradual Teaching Strategy of Nutritional Intervention in the Prevention and Management of Metabolic Syndrome

• The provincial continuing medical education program: The Advances in Clinical Nutrition Diagnosis and Treatment