Zhang Hongtao, male, Manchu, deputy director and technical director of general surgery at Meihekou Hospital in Jilin Province. After Zhang Hongtao graduated from graduate school in 2003, he gave up the opportunity to work in a provincial hospital and returned to his hometown of Meihekou. He wanted to build his hometown hospital into a modern hospital with advanced technology and protect the local economic development. As chief physician, vice president in charge of medical care, and technical director of general surgery, Zhang Hongtao has been working on the front line for many years. While relieving patients' pain, he bravely climbed to the pinnacle of medicine. Over the years, he has invented a national patent, written more than 20 medical papers, undertaken a major scientific research project of the Jilin Provincial Department of Science and Technology, and won multiple academic honors. Under his leadership, the hospital has successively carried out complex major surgeries such as pancreaticoduodenectomy, standardized liver lobe resection, extended radical resection of rectal cancer, and hilar cholangiocarcinoma, which has rapidly improved the medical level of general surgery. Upgrading, the general surgical treatment area continues to expand. Due to his outstanding academic achievements, the Jilin Provincial Medical Association recognized him as a member of the Jilin Provincial General Surgery Branch. Under his initiative, the hospital introduced more advanced laparoscopic technology, took the lead in carrying out laparoscopic cholecystectomy, rectal cancer resection, and led the gynecology department to carry out laparoscopic subtotal hysterectomy, total hysterectomy and other gynecological surgeries. , so that gynecological laparoscopic surgery accounts for 80% of gynecological surgeries. About 580 laparoscopic surgeries of various types are performed every year, forming a department with minimally invasive characteristics in the southeast of Jilin Province. At present, the hospital's medical technology has been recognized by the majority of patients, with more than 5,500 surgeries performed throughout the year. Last year, as one of the five pilot units in Jilin Province, the hospital accepted the hospital grade review by the expert group of the Ministry of Health. Zhang Hongtao's technology was highly recognized by experts from all over the country.
Zhang Hongtao has a high professional influence in the medical community of Meihekou City. He is often invited by some hospitals in the city to solve technical problems in medical work, and participate in the diagnosis of difficult diseases and consultations on the operating table. As the leader of the medical treatment team, he participated in some major rescue work in the city many times and was highly praised by provincial and municipal leaders. In 2007, he was named by the provincial government as one of the ninth batch of young and middle-aged professional and technical talents with outstanding contributions in Jilin Province. In 2009, he was named as a special model worker in Jilin Province by the provincial government.