Dr. Hairong Gong has practiced pediatrics for nearly 30 years and is the founding Chief Medical Officer of Shanghai StarKids Children's Hospital (New Hongqiao Branch of Children's Hospital of Fudan University).
Dr. Gong began her pediatric clinical and teaching career in 1992. She completed pediatric emergency training in the China–Canada program and a clinical fellowship in emergency medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), Canada. She has taken part in major domestic and international medical relief efforts, including the May 2015 Nepal earthquake response.
From 2015 to 2018 she was sent by the Fudan University Pediatric Medical Consortium to establish the Department of Pediatrics at the North Branch of Huashan Hospital. Since 2016 she has served as Deputy Director of the Critical Care Medicine Department at Children's Hospital of Fudan University. In August 2020 she helped found the New Hongqiao Branch (Shanghai StarKids Children's Hospital), where she serves as Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Developmental Medicine Center.
Dr. Gong specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of critical illnesses of the respiratory and nervous systems and in the management of complex, multi-organ critical conditions. She is experienced in common pediatric infectious and respiratory diseases, including recurrent fever, asthmatic airway disease and chronic cough.
Dr. Gong holds an MD and PhD from Fudan University Shanghai Medical College and completed a clinical fellowship at SickKids, Canada. She is Deputy Director of the Critical Care Medicine Department at Children's Hospital of Fudan University and serves as Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Developmental Medicine Center at StarKids. She has contributed to establishing pediatric services at multiple institutions and remains active in clinical teaching and critical-care research.
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