The hospital has a strong medical technical force and well-known experts. There are nearly 4,000 employees, and medical professionals account for more than 80%, including nearly 600 experts with senior titles, 3 academicians, 7 Changjiang scholars, 5 national Jieqing, 4 chief scientists of "973" and 22 tenured professors.

There are nearly 40 national professional academic committees and more than 60 municipal professional academic committees in Shanghai.

While completing a large number of medical tasks, the scientific research achievements are outstanding and the discipline construction is blossoming. In 20 16, the hospital was approved as the highest scientific research platform in China-National Geriatrics Clinical Medical Research Center, and the first national clinical medical research center of Fudan University.

In the past five years, scientific research has achieved fruitful results. In 20 14, 20 15 and 20 17, it won the second prize of national scientific and technological progress, supported more than 400 national natural science foundations, published more than 4,000 papers, and included more than 2,300 in SCI.

Among them, the hand surgery team of Huashan Hospital initiated "contralateral cervical nerve transfer to treat upper limb hemiplegia after central injury", and the research results were published in the authoritative New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) with an impact factor of 72.406 points.