Chao Chen
Shandong University, China
Biography
Dr. Chao Chen is an attending doctor in Department of Hand and Foot Surgery of Shandong Provincial Hospital affiliated to Shandong University. He graduated from Shandong University, School of Medicine and got master degree of orthopedic in 2012. He got PhD degree of Clinical Anatomy in Southern Medical University in 2015, and his major research subject during PhD’s study is microsurgical anatomy, which dramatically improve his level of microsurgery.
Dr. Chen has been a microsurgeon since he finished orthopedic training in 2014. His department is one of the most famous microsurgical center in China, and he got good microsurgical training with guide of Professor Zengtao Wang and Dr. Liwen Hao. His specialties including hand surgery, limb replantation, thumb and finger esthetic reconstruction, vascularized tissue transplantation. He can successfully anastomose small vessel with caliber of 0.2mm. He has performed over 150 super microsurgeries (including fingertip replantation and mini-flap transplantation) and has total success rate more than 90%. Of all his more than 100 vascularized tissue transplantation surgeries, only one case failed.
Dr. Chen has intense study in microvascular anatomy associated with mini flaps in hand and foot. He has extensive experience in the mini perforator flaps harvested from hand and foot, especially for primary reconstruction of composite tissue defect in finger. He has published 4 SCI articles (coauthor in 3 articles) associated with microsurgery.
Abstract
Abstract : Microsurgical flow-through flaps for reconstruction of volar tissue defect of fingers