Wei JIANG

Message to Patients：

Health is at stake and life is entrusted. I devote myself to be compassionate in promoting health and seeking excellence to heal the sickness.

Areas of Specialty：

More than 40 years of accumulated clinical practice with rich integration of mental health and somatic medicine; including the rational use of the most advanced clinical tests and diagnoses, mental and somatic drugs, core psychotherapy (motivational interviewing, psychodynamics, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, positive psychotherapy, etc.; individual, family, group and other intervention models. Familiar with the promotion of mental health and psychosomatic medicine in China and the cultural habits of the people.

Education Background：

07/1997-06/2002 Internal Medicine/ Psychiatry Residency Training Education Program, Duke University Medical Center, USA Resident

02/1978-01/1982 Clinical Medicine Binzhou Medical College, China Student

Working Experience：

03/2023-12/2024 Department of MH and Psychosomatics, Jiahui International Hospital, Shanghai China Chief

07/2014-04/2024 Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science  Department of Medicine  Duke University Medical Center, USA Professor (tenured)

01/1988-08/1989 Department of Medicine, Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan, Shandong China Assistant Professor

Academic Achievement：

Professor Jiang Wei has been engaged in dual-heart medicine research for many years, exploring the relationship between the brain-psychology-cardiovascular system and the external environment and stress and finding effective intervention measures. Her research projects include long-term epidemiological follow-up surveys, clinical trials, and translational medicine research. She has successfully led several clinical trials funded by the US federal government; the largest and only clinical trials in the world to date, designed to examine the effects of psychotropic drugs on patients with heart disease (SADHART-CHF and REMIT trials).

Professor Jiang Wei has published hundreds of scientific papers and book chapters, and has published papers as the first author in top international journals such as American Journal of Medicine (JAMA), Circulation, JACC, and American Psychiatry Journal. Her unique contributions in the field of medicine include the confirmation that depression increases the risk of death in patients with heart failure; myocardial ischemia caused by mental stress is a risk factor for increased cardiac events or death; the relationship between the severity of depression and myocardial ischemia caused by mental stress; the role of drugs in myocardial ischemia caused by mental stress and the psychosocial biological mechanism. These clinical data fully verify that the adverse effects of bad mental state on the human body are no longer hypothetical speculations, which helps the medical community to recognize and accept the importance, urgency, and extensiveness of improving mental health. These research results play a key role in integrating mental health management models.

Honors, Awards and Professional Memberships：

Professor Jiang Wei is the first female professor to receive a tenured (MD) professorship after training at Duke University School of Medicine since its establishment. She is the first female tenured professor in the joint specialty of internal medicine and neuropsychiatry in the United States, and a global leader in dual-heart medicine and psychosomatic medicine. Professor Jiang Wei has dual qualifications in internal medicine and neuropsychiatry-behavioral medicine. She is a registered clinician in the United States and a member of the American Medical Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Psychosomatic Society.

Professor Jiang has been engaged in clinical teaching and patient management for many years, focusing on physical diseases or symptoms caused or aggravated by abnormal brain function, and/or brain dysfunction caused by physical diseases. She has excellent communication skills with patients and has a reputation for being able to resolve complex medical and patient communication disputes in “a few minutes”. She is an expert consultant and editor for dozens of Western medical journals, and in 2006, she edited a book that provides guidance for non-traditional spiritual professionals on identifying and managing medical and psychiatric patients.

Professor Jiang has been committed to bringing advanced content from Western medicine back to China and effectively integrating it into medical management. She is an honorary professor of several domestic tertiary hospitals that also serve as clinical teaching hospitals, and is responsible for clinical teaching. In recent years, Professor Jiang has joined online network teaching and training platforms as needed to lead advanced clinical medical teaching and training.