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With a long tradition of innovation, the Heart Center of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine (SAHZU) is striving to be a leader in health care for cardiovascular diseases through multidiscipline research and collaboration. SAHZU is a not-for-profit tertiary care public hospital founded in 1869 by the British Church Missionary Society with a mission of Spreading Benevolence and Saving People. It has 2 sites, the Jiefang Road Campus and the Riverside Campus, with a total capacity of 3200 inpatient beds, and is the major medical center in southeast China. In 2013, SAHZU was accredited by Joint Commission International as an Academic Medical Hospital Center and passed recertification in 2016. SAHZU served ≈135 200 inpatients and 4.18 million outpatients last year. In addition, ≈113 300 surgeries were performed. Innovation has a long tradition at our center. In the 1960s, the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department started research of prosthetic valves and produced the first generation of metal ball-like prosthetic valves in China. In the 1970s, a pioneering epidemiological study on cardiovascular diseases in China was performed on a population of fishermen by the Department of Cardiology. In the 1980s, the Cardiology Department started the first percutaneous cardiac intervention program in our Province. In the 1990s, the first partial left ventriculectomy in a patient with valvular cardiomyopathy was successfully performed by the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department. In the 2000s, Jianan Wang initiated the translational research of stem cell transplantation for congestive heart failure. Currently, the Heart Center is composed of the Departments of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Interventional Center, Cardiovascular Imaging, and the Cardiovascular Key Laboratory of Zhejiang Province. The personnel is composed of a team of innovative cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, radiologists, anesthesiologists, and nurses work closely together to provide state-of-the-art care to our patients. Each year, ≈9000 diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are …