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February 25th, 2018

San Francisco # 4. I am very impressed by the resources, innovations, and quality of researches at the Division of Plastic Surgery, Stanford Medical School. The team is proudly led by Drs. James Chang, Michael Longaker, and Geoffrey Gurtner. All of them are world-class innovators and excellent role models for the young plastic surgeons. They have published numerous papers in the top medical journals. I had a successful brainstorming session with their research team. Several lymphedema research ideas came up from our meeti... Read More

January 28th, 2018

Time flies. This is the 16th year since the Taiwan Breast Reconstruction Foundation had been established. I am so honored to be the patron of this great organization. I attended the welcome party for the new members yesterday. It was so nice to see the great momentum and warm interactions among the newcomers, old members, and our medical staff. We all share the same goal - to help the breast cancer patients to feel confident and to resume quality of life. I cannot be prouder of the accomplishments we have achieved together... Read More

January 17th, 2018

Dr. Liza Wu, the Godina Lecturer this year, is the first female Godina Fellow of ASRM. Godina Fellow is the most prestigious honor for a microsurgeon. This award recognizes and represents the significant contributions and outstanding achievements in reconstructive microsurgery. Dr. Wu’s Godina Lecture was inspirational and refreshing. Liza is the associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a Taiwanese American surgeon. She well represents and now becomes one of the Asian Godina fellows, David Chang from Un... Read More

January 17th, 2018

It was a great pleasure to meet my mentors - David Chuang from Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Geoffrey Robb from MD Anderson Cancer Center, Michael Miller from Ohio State University and Gregory Evans from UC Irvine at the Presidential Dinner. Dr. Robb has always given me his most trust, support and best advice throughout my careers. Dr. Evans, the 2017 William Zamboni Visiting Professor of ASRM gave us a heartening talk sharing the wonderful experiences of his journey. Robert Allen from Louisiana State University Medical Cent... Read More

December 27th, 2017

Dr. Marco Pappalardo is one of our micro fellows from University of Palermo, Italy. He spent 2 years learning microsurgical breast reconstruction and lymphedema microsurgery in our team. He is a remarkably bright talented surgeon. I am very grateful for his contribution to the research projects and papers we worked together. I wish him the best and great success in his future career. I look forward to visiting the Lymphedema Microsurgery Center led by him in Italy very soon. ... Read More

December 4th, 2017

It was a great pleasure to meet another good friend from the US as a keynote speaker at the 2017 annual meeting of Taiwan Society of Plastic Surgery. Professor Eduardo Rodriguez, MD, DDS, is the Chair of Department of Plastic Surgery at NYU Langone Medical Center, New York, NY. He gave us an impressive lecture of "Facial Transplantation” yesterday. The third picture was taken at 2011 Chang-Gung Mayo Clinic Symposium in Reconstructive Surgery, in Taipei, Taiwan. I cherish our long lasting friendship. ... Read More

November 29th, 2017

want to share a touching story of one of my patients in Beijing who spoke at this event. Ms. Yi, is a well-known show hostess in Beijing, China. She had her vascularized lymph node transfer and microsurgical breast reconstruction done by me in Taiwan two years ago. She was extremely contented with the operation results. She now can wear her diamond ring on her left middle finger instead of the little finger in the past due to the severe swelling caused by Lymphedema that she suffered for years before the operation. She exp... Read More