Mu Ruifen

(1905～1980)

Mu Ruifen was born in Kaifeng, Henan. In the 12th year of the Republic of China (1923), he entered the pre-medical department of Yali University in Changsha. He studied at Changsha Xiangya Medical College and Shanghai National Central University Medical School since June 2015. He graduated in July 2016 with a bachelor's degree in medicine and became a surgeon at the First Hospital of the Red Cross Society of China in Shanghai. In July 2017, he went to the UK and studied at the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh and the London Otolaryngology Hospital, and then went to the University of Vienna in Austria to further his studies in otolaryngology. He returned to China in the 25th year of the Republic of China and served as a lecturer and professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Shanghai Medical College. In February 1935, he was appointed as the director of the Department of Otolaryngology at Shanghai Sino-US Hospital and started practicing medicine in September of the same year. In 1951, he was appointed as the director of the otolaryngology department of Shanghai Nanyang Hospital. In 1956, he was appointed as the director of the otolaryngology department of Shanghai Second Labor Hospital (now Yangpu District Central Hospital). He also served as consultant of the otolaryngology department of the Chest Hospital, Nanyang Hospital and Zhongshan Hospital.

Chinese name: Mu Ruifen

Birthplace: Kaifeng, Henan

Date of birth: 1905

Date of death: 1980

Occupation: Otolaryngology

Graduation institutions: Changsha Xiangya Medical College, Shanghai National Central University Medical College

Main achievements: Known as a generation of endoscopy experts

Representative works: Chapter "Bronchoscopic Examination" in the monograph "Practical Tuberculosis"

Character Profile

(1905～1980)

Mu Ruifen is from Kaifeng, Henan. In the 12th year of the Republic of China (1923), he entered the pre-medical department of Yali University in Changsha. He studied at Changsha Xiangya Medical College and Shanghai National Central University Medical School since June 2015. He graduated in July 2019 with a bachelor's degree in medicine and became a surgeon at the First Hospital of the Red Cross Society of China in Shanghai. In July 2016, he went to the UK and studied at the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh and the London Otolaryngology Hospital, and then went to the University of Vienna in Austria to further his studies in Otolaryngology. He returned to China in the 25th year of the Republic of China and served as a lecturer and professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Shanghai Medical College. In February 1935, he was appointed as the director of the Department of Otolaryngology at Shanghai Sino-US Hospital and started practicing medicine in September of the same year. In 1951, he was appointed as the director of the otolaryngology department of Shanghai Nanyang Hospital. In 1956, he was appointed as the director of the otolaryngology department of Shanghai Second Labor Hospital (now Yangpu District Central Hospital). He also served as consultant of the otolaryngology department of the Chest Hospital, Nanyang Hospital and Zhongshan Hospital.

Biography

Mu Ruifen has long been committed to the medical, teaching and research activities of otolaryngology. He studied technology assiduously, improved many otolaryngology surgical operations, and concentrated on He is known as a generation of endoscopic experts for his research on pedal bone movement and inner ear fenestration for deafness, and for improving bronchoscopy to be safe and painless, and to improve its value in clinical diagnosis and treatment. In 1953 he wrote the chapter "Bronchoscopic Examination" in the monograph "Practical Tuberculosis".

After Mu Ruifen was transferred to the Shanghai Second Labor Hospital, he was highly responsible for patients, taught young people well, trained and cultivated a group of talents, and also went to the factory to carry out research on the prevention and treatment of noise-induced deafness. In 1959, he visited the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, and later visited many industrial bases in our country. He deeply realized that only the Communist Party could save China. He worked hard under the education of the party. In December of the same year, Mu Ruifen honorably joined the Communist Party of China. He worked harder and devoted his life to the people's health cause.