The Department of Clinical Nutrition of SYSMH was established in 2009, evolving from the Nutrition Office originally founded in the early 1970s. It currently employs seven professional staff, including one chief physician, four attending physicians, one nurse-in-charge, and one master's supervisor.
  As a medical technical department, the Department of Clinical Nutrition is responsible for nutritional risk screening for all inpatients and the management of various therapeutic diets throughout the hospital. It conducts nutritional assessment, diagnosis, and consultation for nutrition-related diseases, provides nutrition education, and designs and implements enteral and parenteral nutrition support plans. The department also undertakes undergraduate teaching and internship supervision for Sun Yat-sen University, conducts ongoing nutrition research, and serves as one of the first Registered Dietitian Practical Training Units accredited by the Chinese Nutrition Society. The department director holds key academic and social roles nationally and provincially, including council member of the Chinese Nutrition Society, head of the China Community Nutrition Clinic Working Group, executive director and Party branch secretary of the Guangdong Nutrition Society, and chair of its subcommittees.
  The department pioneered hospital-wide nutritional risk screening across all wards in China, notably developing innovative screening tools for maternal and child nutritional risks. It has introduced innovative approaches for diabetes nutrition management, such as rapid diabetes meal planning methods and practical nutrition education through cooking demonstrations. The department has established and standardized comprehensive nutritional assessment and treatment protocols for diabetic foot and promoted appropriate chronic disease nutrition management techniques in over 20 communities, where community nutrition clinics have been set up. Currently, it manages the preparation and administration of more than ten types of enteral nutrition formulas and has developed over twenty diagnostic and therapeutic diets with daily management protocols.
  The department operates a regular nutrition consultation clinic, offering services for diabetes, obesity, malnutrition, kidney disease, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, as well as nutrition guidance for pregnant women and children. Clinic hours are Monday and Tuesday mornings, and Wednesday and Thursday afternoons.
  Engaged in nutrition prevention and treatment research, the department focuses primarily on nutritional strategies for diabetes and cardiovascular diseases. It has secured research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guangdong Provincial Department of Science and Technology Natural Science Fund, and science and technology planning projects. The department has contributed to the compilation of over 20 books and published more than 50 research articles in domestic and international professional journals, including SCI-indexed papers with a highest single impact factor of 16.0.
  Annually, the department supervises over ten visiting trainees and interns. It has successfully organized the Guangdong Continuing Medical Education Program for eight consecutive years. Routine nutrition education activities include publishing thousands of nutrition articles, delivering over a hundred health lectures each year, and developing and distributing numerous nutrition therapy manuals for various diseases.
  The Department of Clinical Nutrition has been recognized as a National Clinical Nutrition Demonstration Unit by the Chinese Nutrition Society and has received awards including the National Nutrition Week Organizational Award, National Demonstration Unit, and consecutive Special Contribution Awards from the Guangdong Nutrition Society. It has also been honored multiple times with the hospital's Second and Third Prizes for Medical Quality Management. Department physicians have been awarded titles such as among the first batch of "Yangcheng Excellent Doctors" in nutrition, National Top Ten Nutrition Science Communicators, National Advanced Workers in the Nutrition Industry, Sun Yat-sen University Outstanding Party Affairs Workers, and Outstanding Communist Party Members. They have also won first prize in national nutrition speech competitions, second prize in the "Yixian Cup," and third prize from the China Health Education Center, second prize from the Guangdong Medical Association, and first prize from Guangzhou in science communication competitions.