Dr. Wen-Hu Chen, M.D.
Director of the department of thoracic surgery
Chief surgeon
Shanghai Chest Hospital
Professor of the School of Medicine of Jiaotong University
Recipient of honorary compensation from Congress |
Professional Experience
Dr. Wen-Hu Chen has 30 years of experience in thoracic surgery. He graduated from Shanghai First Medical College and started his thoracic surgical career at SCH in 1973. From 1985-1986, he traveled to the Chicago University Medical Center to receive specialty training for one year. Afterwards, in 1988 and 1996, he studied at the Tokyo Cancer Research Center in Japan.
During his thirty years of tenure, Dr. Chen has treated numerous patients covering almost every area of thoracic surgery from common diseases to the most complex ones. Dr. Chen specializes in extended lymph nodes resection to treat esophageal cancer combined with chemotherapy. He also has experience in, but not limited to, surgical treatment of the myasthenia gravis, minimally invasive endoscopic surgery, and the multi-disciplinary approach to treat esophageal cancer, lung cancer, and mediastinal cancer.
Academic Titles
Vice chief council member of the Chinese Cancer Association-National Esophageal Specialty Division
Council member of the Chinese Medical Association-Cardiothoracic Surgical Division-Esophageal Benign Diseases Specialty
Guest researcher of the Forensic Scientific Institute of Chinese Ministry of Justice
Editor of “Esophageal Surgery”, “Tumor”, and many reference books, including “Cardiothoracic Surgery”, 1st and 2nd edition.
Awards
Recipient of honorary compensation from Congress
Three-Class Prize from the Shanghai Medical Science and Technology in 2003 for his “Research on Diagnosis and Differential Diagnosis of Benign and Malignant Thymic Tumors and Prognosis Indicators”
Shanghai Scientific Technology Achievement Award in 2002 for his “Treatment of Esophageal Cancer”
