Dr. Smile Health (Dr. Smile Medical Group)
张强医生集团
Dr. Smile Health is a private physician group — not a hospital — founded in 2014 by vascular surgeon Dr. Zhang Qiang. It runs varicose-vein CHIVA centres in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Jinan and Tianjin.
At a glance
| City | Shanghai |
|---|---|
| Ownership | Private physician group |
| Classification | Physician group · vascular / varicose-vein (CHIVA) |
Hospital profile — from the official site
| Type | Physician group (医生集团) — operates independently from hospitals; not itself a hospital |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1 July 2014, by vascular surgeon Dr. Zhang Qiang (张强) |
| Focus | Varicose-vein treatment via CHIVA (haemodynamic vein-preservation), plus endoscopic and radiofrequency-ablation minimally invasive techniques |
| Self-description | China's first specialty centre focused on venous-system disease (国内第一个专注于静脉系统疾病诊疗的专科中心) |
| Centres | Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Jinan, Tianjin |
| International | First overseas centre in Africa (2023); U.S. operations begun (2024); Manhattan management office (2025) |
Facts summarised from the group's own About page. It is a physician group, not a hospital.
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