Ming-huei Cheng MD, MBA, FACS

Dr. Ming-Huei Cheng is a Professor in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan.

Dr. Cheng was awarded the 2006 Godina Travel Fellow of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery. He is a board-certified plastic surgeon specializing in reconstructive microsurgery. He finished a combined microsurgical and research fellowship at the Department of Plastic Surgery, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas in 1999. He is a member of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery since 2003, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons since 2009, an international member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons since 2012, and became an Adjunct Professor of the Section of Plastic Surgery at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA in 2017.

Dr. Cheng is listed among the most sought-after surgeons in the reconstructive microsurgery field. He has been invited as a visiting professor to more than 16 world-renowned medical centers in the United States in the past 5 years. He has authored a total of 210 peer-reviewed papers, and 40 book chapters, and edited one lymphedema textbook (Principles and Practice of Lymphedema Surgery, 2016, Elsevier). In the recent 5 years, of 88 papers published, he is the first author of 7 papers and the corresponding author of 50 papers. Among these publications, 27 papers focus on lymphedema microsurgery, 13 papers on head and neck reconstructions, 11 papers on breast reconstructions, 24 papers on basic research of plastic surgery, and 13 papers on microsurgery-related research. The most significant papers include two in the Annals of Surgery. There are a total of 10931 reads and 4068 citations of his publications with an h-index of 34 at the Research Gate on September 12, 2018. He is the pioneer of the vascularized lymph node transfer for treatment of the breast and gynecological cancer-related lymphedema and the author of 39 SCI papers and 16 book chapters in the field of lymphedema microsurgery. He has 20 patents including one US patent of the Device for “Draining Lymph into Vein,” which is the innovation to solve the extremity lymphedema problem without donor site morbidity. He is the section editor of Annals Surgical Oncology and editor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Journal Surgical Oncology, Microsurgery, and Annals of Plastic Surgery. In summary, Dr. Cheng is an internationally recognized surgeon-scientist, specializing in lymphedema microsurgery.