Department of Surgery

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Department of Surgery

History:

Department of Surgery was planned in 1986 and established since 1990. The first director was Professor Cheng, Kwok-Kei who is the pioneer of heart transplantation in Taiwan. Three years later, Professor Cheng was promoted to be deputy superintendent. Professor Huang, Jong-Khing was elected to be the director of Department of Surgery. Professor Huang is a famous urologist, well-known in the field of prostate surgery. In 2003, Professor Cheng became the superintendent. Professor Huang was promoted to be the deputy superintendent. The 3^rd director is Dr. Mok, King-Tong, who is a famous hepato-biliary-pancreatic surgeon.

Faculty:

1. General Surgery

2. Urology

3. Plastic surgery

4. Cardiovascular surgery

5. Chest surgery

6. Colorectal surgery

7. Neurosurgery

8. Pediatric surgery

9. Surgical Critical Care Medicine

allocation of operation room

Allocation of Operation Room

Personel:

There are 104 staff in Department of Surgery. Our staff comprised of 41 attending surgeons, 25 residents, 14 technicians, 24 nursing specialist. All of our attending surgeons had qualified specialist board and receiving advanced training in America or Europe in order to learn update knowledge. Master and PhD degrees are common among our staff. In the past 17 years, 65 well-trained surgeons leave and play an important role at other hospitals in Taiwan.

Facility:

We have 239 beds, 32 intensive care unit beds (surgery, neurosurgery and cardiovascular surgery), 3 burn center beds, 24 operation rooms and 4 day-surgery operation rooms.

care of ICU patient

Surgical Critical Care Medicine

We also had cosmetics center, hyperbaric oxygen treatment center, extracorporeal shockwave center, colonoscopy center, general surgery laboratory, stone analysis laboratory, chest surgery laboratory. The facilities were established to fulfill the demand of patients and provided best quality care to patients.

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