Longhua Hospital's Zhang Wei Model Worker Innovation Studio Named a 2026 Shanghai Health System Model Worker Studio

The Shanghai Medical Workers' Union issued a circular on the establishment of 2026 model worker and craftsman innovation studios in Shanghai's health system, and Longhua Hospital's “Zhang Wei Model Worker and Craftsman Innovation Studio” has been selected. Professor Zhang Wei, who leads the studio, serves as vice chair of the Hepatobiliary Diseases Branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine and chair of the Infectious Diseases Branch of the Shanghai Association of Chinese Medicine. Her honors include National Health and Family Planning System Advanced Worker, one of China's first “Most Beautiful TCM Doctors,” the China Association of Chinese Medicine's Advanced Individual in Epidemic Response, and the second Shanghai Most Beautiful Female Physician.

She established and developed the academic system of treating liver disease by activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and created “Qishao Guixiong Granules” for the rare disease primary biliary cholangitis; the related achievements won a second prize of the Ministry of Education's scientific and technological achievements and a third prize of the Shanghai Medical Science Award. She created the “TCM Chronic Liver Disease Quality of Life Scale,” filling a domestic gap, developed the in-hospital preparation Maxing Qingfei Granules, which won a Shanghai Excellent Invention silver award, used AI to build a TCM face-diagnosis-based evaluation system for liver depression syndrome in chronic liver disease, and established the “Shouzheng Jiewen” epidemic prevention science communication system.