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Chao-long Chen

Chao-long Chen MD, PHD

Surgery
Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

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Professor Chao-Long Chen is a pioneer liver transplant surgeon who in 1984 performed the first successful liver transplantation with extended survival in Asia. He is a graduate of the Kaohsiung Medical University and did his surgery training at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. He later obtained fellowship training in liver transplantation with renowned Prof. Thomas Starzl at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is a recipient of various honors and distinctions, both locally and internationally. He became Professor of Surgery in 1993 and subsequently had been bestowed the title of Honorary Professor by several international universities. In 1994, he performed the first living donor liver transplantation in Taiwan.

He did the first split liver transplantation in Asia in 1997. He started the adult living donor liver transplantation in Taiwan in 1999. Further, he performed the first dual graft living donor liver transplantation in Taiwan in 2002. He became superintendent of the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center in 2003. He has published more than 270 scientific articles and has lectured in nearly 200 international congresses, and honorary and visiting professorships. In 2007, he was elected as academician of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Engineering. He remains director of one of the leading centers in liver transplantation in Asia.
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