Expertise at Chang Gung System

Tsai, Feng-Chun ,M.D.
Institution: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou/ Chang gung university
Position: Chief/Associate professor
Department: Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Office Address: 5, Fu-Shing Street, Kwei-Shan, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Tel:+886-3-3281200 #2118

Focus of Interest:
Basic:
1. Transplant rejection and apoptosis; using mice heterotopic heart transplant model
2. correlation of gap junctional protein (annexin) and atrial fibrillation
3. transplant tolerance induction
Clinic:
1. surgical treatment of heart failure:
a. mitral valve repair in dilated cardiomyopathy
b. left ventricular restoration surgery in ischemic cardiomyopathy
c. offpump CABG in low ejection fraction patients
d. modified Maze operation in atrial fibrillation patients
e. clinical heart and heart-lung transplant
2. mechanical support of cardiopulmonary impairment
a. ECMO in acute respiratory failure, sudden cardiopulmonary collapse, postcardiotomy shock and right ventricular failure
b. ventricular assist device (VAD) in bridge to transplant, recovery or permanent use
3. valve surgery
a. stentless aortic valve (Metronic Freestyle, Homograft)
b. mitral repair in degenerative or rheumatic heart disease
4. minimal invasive cardiac surgery
a. da Vinci assisted mitral valvular surgery
b. da Vinci assisted coronary artery bypass surgery
c. endoscopic for coronary artery bypassed graft harvest
d. minimal invasive valvular heart surgery
Employment Record:
◎Aug 1991-July 1992 R1, Dept of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei
◎Aug 1992-July 1994 R2 - R3, Dept of Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei
◎Aug 1994- July 1996 Fellow, Div of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, CGMH
◎Aug 1996- now Attending Staff, Div of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, CGMH
◎Aug 1997- July 2000 Lecturer of Surgery, Chang Gung University
◎July 2000-Dec 2001 Clinical research fellow of cardiothoracic surgery, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
◎Aug 2000-2007 Assistant professor, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital & University
◎Sep 2000-June 2003 Chief of Cardiothoracic surgery department, Keelung branch of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
◎July 2003-June 2005 Director of intensive care unit of cardiac surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou
◎July 2005-now Chief of Cardiac surgery department, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou
◎2008-now Associate professor, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital & University

Education:
1984-1991 Taipei Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Full Publication List

Board Certification:
1. Doctor License of Republic of China No.: 021282
2. The Surgical Association of the Republic of China, No.: 003657
3. Republic of China Society of Cardiology, No.: 0045
4. Republic of China Society of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, No.: 0176
5. Instructor for Republic of China Society of Cardiothoracic & VascularSurgery, No 078
6. Instructor for Republic of China Society of Cardiology, (93-023)