Expertise at Chang Gung System

Lin, Chih-Hung ,M.D.
Institution:Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Position: Director/Professer/Physician
Department: Department of Plastic Surgery
Office Address: Plastic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital,5, Fu-Hsing Street, Kweishan, Taoyuan county , Taiwan.
Tel: +886-3-3281200 ext 2946, 3650
Fax:+886-3-3289582
E-mail: chihhung@cgmh.org.twprofchlin@gmail.com

Focus of Interest:
  • Surgery


Employment Record:
◎Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Education:
1977-1983 Chung-Sun Medical College, Taichung, Taiwan

Honor & Awards:
1. Invited speaker in Microsurgical Society of Japan, Tokyo, 19-21 Nov.1997
2. Invited speaker in 6th Asean Pacific International Conference of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Penang, Malaysia, 26 Febuary- 1 March,1998
3. Invited speaker in 8th Asean Pacific International Conference of Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, Taipei, Taiwan, 1-4 April, 2001
4. Invited speaker in 3rd Scientific Meeting of the Chinese Association for Endoscopic Surgery. Taipei, Taiwan, 30 June, 2001
5. Invited speaker in Instruction course in first Inaugural Congress of the World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery. Taipei, 2 November, 2001.
6. Live surgery demonstration in Precongress meeting of the first Inaugural Congressthe World society for Reconstructive Microsurgery. Taipei, 30-31 October, 2001.
7. Invited speaker in 16th Hong Kong Society for Surgery of the Hand, Hong Kong, 1-2 June, 2002
8. Cadaveric surgery of endoscopic free muscle flap harvesting demonstration in Precongress meeting of the 16th Hong Kong Society for Surgery of the Hand, Hong Kong, 31 May, 2002.
9. Invited speaker in AO/ASIF AO hand seminar, Keelung, Taiwan, 9 Nov,2002.
10. Invited speaker in 14th International Surgical Symposium, Hong Kong, 14-16 November, 2003
11. Invited speaker in 1st International Hand Surgery, Jakarta, Indonesia, 18-21 August, 2004.
12. Invited speaker and Keynote lecture in 3rd international Symposium on Hand Surgery and the advances in Hand Therapy, Bali, Indonesia, 14-26 May, 2006.
13. Invited speaker of Symposium of Hand Stiffness in Occupational Therapy Association of Taiwan, 3 December, 2006, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
14. Invited speaker of Instructional course of Amerian Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Putero Rico, 13-16 January, 2007.
15. Invited speaker of 10th Triennial Congress of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand, Sydney, Australia, 11-15 March, 2007.
16. Invited Panelist of World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Athens,Greece, 24-26 June, 2007.
17. Invited Speaker in Annual Conference of Turkish Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Oct 16-20, 2007.
18. Invited speaker of Instructional course of Amerian Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Los Angeles, January 11-14, 2008.
19. Invited speaker of 7th Ascian Pascific Federation of Society of for Surgery of the Hand, Hong-Kong, 14-17, Feb., 2008.
20. Invited speaker of post-congress meeting of 7th Asian Pascific Federation of Society of for Surgery of the Hand, Shenzhen, China, 18-19, Feb.,2008.
21. Invited speaker in 1st Chinese Descent Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Beijing, October 10-12, 2008.
22. Visiting Professor, Plastic Surgery, Mayo Clinics, Rochester, Minnesota, October 29-31, 2008.
23. Best reconstructive save of the year, Annual Conference of Plastic Surgery Association of Taiwan, November 16
24. Gangga Hospital Johnson Hospital, India, 2008
25. Invited Panelist of American Society of Reconstructive Microsrugery, Maui,Hawaii, 10-13 Janunary, 2009.
26. Invited speaker of 1st Mayo Clinic/Chang Gung University Medical College Symposium of Reconstructive Microsurgery. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, June 4-7, 2009.
27. Invited speaker of 5th Congress of the World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, Okinawa, Japan, June 25-27, 2009.
28. Invited speaker of Ascian Pacific Society for Plastic Surgery, Tokyo, Japan Oct. 7-10, 2009.
29. Invited speaker of Ascian Pacific Ferderation for Surgery of the Hand, KaoHsiung, Taiwan, November 14-17, 2009.
30. Guest Editor of Seminas in Plastic Surgery, formerly perspectives in Plastic Surgery, Extremity-saving surgery and reconstruction:from microsurgery reconstruction to transplantation. Vol 24 No 1, 2010
31. Invited speaker on the 6th World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery. June 29-July 2 2010, Helsinki, Finland.
32. Invited speaker on the 66th annual meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Sep 8-10,2011, Las Vegas, Nevada.
33. Best Option of Reconstructive Procedure of the Year. In Annual Conference of Taiwan Plastic Surgical Association, Taipei, 2011.
34. Invited speaker on AOCMF, Xi-an,China, Nov11-19,2011
35. Invited speaker 2nd Hand surgery conference in WuXi 6th People Hospital May 3-5,2012. WuXi, China
36. Invited speaker on The 4th Jishuitan Orthopedics Forum, National Convention Center, April 19-21, 2012. BeiJing, China
37. Invited Speaker on Taiwan-Singapore-Tailand Plastic surgery conference (TST), Aesthetics Asia, 2012., 13 Sep, Singapore.
38. Invited Tutor on 3rd Cadaveric dissection flap course in Plastic Surgery, Singapore General Hospital, September, 14-15, 2012. Singapore
39. Invited Key Note Speaker in 10th Ascian Pacific Federation for Surgery (APFSH) of the Hand, Oct 12-14, Bali, Indonesia.
40. Invited speaker forinstruction course in American Society for Plastic Surgery (ASPS), New Orleans, Sept 4-7, 2013.
41. Academica Acomplishment, the Outstanding Alumnus Award of Chung Shan Medical University of the year 2012, Taichung, Taiwan, 10 Nov, 2012.
42. Invited speaker in 11th Internation Federation Society for surgery of the Hand (IFSSH), New Dehli,India, March 4-6, 2013
43. Invited speaker for AOCMF advanced course, Guang Zhou, China, Aug 29-31, 2013.
44. Invited speaker for instruction course in 68th Annual meeting of American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH), San franisco, Oct 3-5, 2013.
45. Invited speaker for instruction course lecture in American Association of hand Surgery (AAHS), Kauai, Hawaii, 9 Janunary, 2014.
46. Invited speaker for instruction course lecture in American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM), Kauai, Hawaii, 11 Janunary, 2014.
47. Invited Speaker, 5th Jishtan Forum 2014, Peking, China

Selected main Publication:
  1. Chen HY, Lin YT, Lo S, Hsu CC, Lin CH, Wei FC. Vascularised toe proximal interphalangeal joint transfer in posttraumatic finger joint reconstruction: The effect of skin paddle design on extensor lag.J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2014, Jan;67(1):56-62. doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2013.09.010. Epub 2013 Sep 15. Review. PMID:24076345. SCI
  2. Cheng-Hung Lin, R Sucher, YC Shin, YW Ng, Q Mao, Chih-Hung Lin, WP Lee, Gerald Brandacher.  The neck as a preferred recipient site for vascularized composite allotransplantation in the mouse.  Plast.Reconstr. Surg., 2014 Feb; 133(2):133e-41e. SCI
  3. Chih-Hung Lin, Chung-Jan Jang, Chung-Kan Tsao, Christopher Glenn Wallac, Li-Yu Lee, Chien-Yu Lin, Hung-Ming Wang, Shu-Hang Ng, Tzu-Chen Yen, Chun-Ta Liao.  Priority of Fibular Reconstruction in Patients with Oral Cavity Cancer Undergoing egmental Mandibulectomy.  PLOS One, 2014 Apr 10;9(4):e94315. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094315. eCollection 2014.PMID:247223535 SCI
  4. Duretti Fufa, Cheng-Hung Lin, Yu-Te Lin, hung-Cheng Hsu, Chih-Hung Lin.. Survival and Secondary Surgery Following Lower Extremity Replantation.  J Reconstr Microsurg. 2014, Mar 28. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:24683136(corresponding author)  SCI
  5. Hyewl Dafydd, Chih-Hung Lin.  Hand reanimation.  Curr Rev Musculoskelet Med. 2014 Mar 22. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:24658848[PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Corresponding Author)
Full Publication List

Board Certification:
1. Medical Board of Taiwan No. 012453, December 14, 1984
2. Surgical board of Taiwan No. 2-1951, January 3, 1991
3. Plastic Surgery Board of Taiwan, No. 134, December 5, 1992
4. Taiwan Society for Surgery of Hand, No.362, 1993.
5. Aesthetic Surgery Board of Taiwan, No.126, August 9, 1997
Licensers: 1750, Tao-Yuan, May 18, 1987

Ongoing projects:
1. Functional recovery in rat mystacial pad transplantation.
2. Functional assay and strategies to improve nerve regeneration after mystacial pad vascularized composite allotransplantion