- Laying out robotic surgery, cardiac rehabilitation management, arrhythmia interventional treatment, and other cutting-edge fields, deepening international collaboration, integrating local practices, and building a future-oriented professional education system
- Introducing a digital remote surgical guidance system and an AI simulation teaching platform, injecting new momentum into the cultivation of digital-intelligent medical talent
BeijingMay 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Johnson & Johnson MedTech announced today the official relaunch of the Johnson & Johnson China Academic Center (hereinafter referred to as the “Academic Center”). This upgrade marks a new phase in Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s professional education layout in China. Moving forward, the Academic Center will be driven by cutting-edge technology training and digital empowerment, constructing an immersive professional education system tailored for future medical scenarios. After the relaunch, the Academic Center is expected to host 3,000 training sessions annually, covering over 50,000 medical professionals.
Johnson & Johnson MedTech China President Zhou Mintao delivers a speech
“The relaunch of the Johnson & Johnson China Academic Center embodies our unwavering commitment to medical professional education in China,” said Zhou Mintao, President of Johnson & Johnson MedTech China. “For over three decades, we have been moving in step with China’s healthcare industry. Chinese healthcare is undergoing a critical transformation from ‘technology introduction’ to ‘capacity building.’ The relaunch of the Academic Center is our response to this trend. Looking ahead, Johnson & Johnson will leverage the Academic Center as a hub to continuously enhance the standardization, digitalization, and internationalization of professional education, making quality education a key driver of healthcare accessibility and helping to revitalize China’s medical talent cultivation ecosystem.”
As a global leader in medical technology, Johnson & Johnson MedTech has been deeply involved in professional education in China for more than 30 years, consistently committed to advancing medical talent development and clinical technology innovation through systematic, forward-looking training systems. The relaunched Academic Center comprehensively covers cutting-edge fields such as robotic surgery, cardiac rehabilitation management, and arrhythmia interventional treatment, while simultaneously expanding digital-intelligent training resources to create a high-level academic and teaching hub spanning multiple disciplines and technology platforms.
MONARCH® Natural Orifice Robotic Surgical System
HaiShanYi® Split-Laparoscopic Surgical Robot
Upgrading the Academic Center to Strengthen the “Industry-Academia-Research-Application” Empowerment Matrix
This relaunch represents a significant milestone and tangible outcome of the strategic cooperation between Johnson & Johnson and the Beijing Municipal Health Commission. In May 2025, both parties established the Johnson & Johnson China Science and Technology Innovation Center in Beijing, focusing on three key areas: digital healthcare, professional talent incubation, and clinical applications of cardiac electrophysiology. As a critical pillar of the Innovation Center, the upgrade of the Academic Center precisely aligns with this strategic plan. By expanding training bases and upgrading teaching facilities, the Academic Center will better meet the talent cultivation needs of future medical scenarios, further closing the innovation loop from research to clinical practice.
Focusing on Surgical Education to Promote Standardization of Cutting-Edge Technology Clinical Applications
As a professional training base accredited by the Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS), the relaunched Academic Center will continue to support the practical implementation of surgical education. In terms of international collaboration, the partnership between Johnson & Johnson MedTech and RCS has evolved from a project-based approach to a systemic development phase. Both parties have formally signed a five-year strategic cooperation agreement and established the RCS England-China Working Group, driving Chinese surgery from “aligning with international standards” to “leading and co-advancing.” Since 2012, the two sides have established 15 accredited training centers in China, jointly developed 63 standardized course systems, and created the first RCS-accredited digital education platform in China, “LingYiMai,” continuously improving the standardization and accessibility of Chinese surgical education.
Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson MedTech is actively exploring new collaboration models with domestic hospitals. Recently, Johnson & Johnson MedTech signed a strategic cooperation memorandum with Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, to explore feasible strategic collaborations around the standardized application of surgical robots and the cultivation of international talent. This includes discussions on jointly building China’s first split-type surgical robot training demonstration base, focusing on standardized clinical application of surgical robots and surgeon capacity building, creating a professional platform integrating clinical technology training and international academic exchange. This represents a proposed strategic collaboration between the two parties in discipline development and talent cultivation, aiming to promote the standardized application of surgical robots through medical-enterprise cooperation and support the high-quality development of minimally invasive surgical technology.
Enhancing Digital Training Resources to Expand New Boundaries of Professional Education
In terms of digital training, the Academic Center will focus on building digital capabilities, leveraging digital remote surgical guidance systems and AI simulation teaching solutions to create immersive teaching solutions that transcend geographical limitations. Among these, the remote mentoring model combining “surgical guidance + interactive Q&A” significantly extends the coverage radius of high-quality medical resources, enabling more surgeons to conveniently and efficiently access high-level skill training and clinical guidance. Additionally, the Academic Center is actively conducting AI-driven personalized teaching research, performing intelligent analysis based on learner operation data to assist in evaluating learner capabilities and recommending personalized advancement paths.
Neurointerventional half-body fluid model hands-on training (top left), Pulsed field ablation simulation training platform (top right), Thoracoscopic simulator training (bottom left), Laparoscopic simulator training (bottom right)
Digital remote surgical guidance training
Looking ahead, Johnson & Johnson MedTech will continue to use professional education as a link, integrating global innovation with local practices, to promote the cultivation of medical talent in China and deliver higher quality, more accessible healthcare services to more patients.