Expertise at Chang Gung system

Ming-Huei Cheng ,MD, MBA, FACS.
Institution: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Department: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Office Address: 5, Fusing Sreet, Kweishan, Taoyuan 33305, Taiwan
Tel: +886-3-3281200 ext. 3343
E-mail: minghuei@adm.cgmh.org.tw; minghueicheng@gmail.com

Focus of Interest:
  • Perforator flap for breast reconstruction and head and neck reconstruction
  • Lymphedema surgical treatment and animal model
  • Tissue engineering of bone.
  • Adipose- and dermis-derived hydrogel for adipose tissue engineering.
Fulltime Employment:

2011 – present     Professor, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2012 – present     Vice President, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2009 – present     Fellow of American College of Surgeons (FACS)


Education:

1981-1988   School of Medicine, Chung-Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan (MD)
2002-2004   Health Care Management, Business School of Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan (MBA)


Honor and Awards:

2006    2006 Godina Travel Fellow, American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
2008    Outstanding Alumni, 48th Anniversary of Chung Shan Medical University
2013    Outstanding Alumni, Chang Gung University


Selected Publications:
1. Uriel S, Huang JJ, Moya ML, Francis ME, Wang R, Chang SY, Cheng MH*, Brey EM. The role of adipose protein derived hydrogels in adipogenesis. Biomaterials. 2008 Sep; 29(27):3712-3719.

2. Cheng MH, Brey EM, Allori AC, Gassman A, Chang DW, Patrick CW Jr, Miller MJ*. Periosteum Guided Prefabrication of Bone of Clinical Shape and Volume. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2009 Sep; 124(3): 787-795.

3. Moya ML, Cheng MH, Huang JJ, Francis-Sedlak M, Kao SW, Opara EC, Brey EM*.  The Effect of FGF-1 Loaded Alginate Microbeads on Neovascularization and Adipogenesis in a Vascular Pedicle Model of Adipose Tissue Engineering.  Biomaterials. 2010 Apr; 31(10):2816-26. (Cheng MH and Moya ML contributed equally to this work)

4. Chiu YC, Cheng MH, Engel H, Kao SW, Larson JC, Gupta S, Brey EM*. The Role of Pore Size on Vascularization and Tissue Remodeling in PEG Hydrogels. Biomaterials. 2011 Sep;32(26):6045-51.

5. Cheng MH*, Huang JJ, Nguyen DH, Saint-Cyr M, Zenn MR, Tan BK, Lee CL. A Novel Approach to the Treatment of Lower Extremity Lymphedema by Transferring a Vascularized Submental Lymph Node Flap to the Ankle. Gynecol Oncol. 2012 Jul;126(1):93-8.