Dr. Johnson Chia-Shen Yang M.D., F.A.C.S. is currently the associate professor and deputy director of the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Dr. Yang has received his supermicrosurgical fellowship training at Tokyo University following Professor Isao Koshima in 2015 and he is now the director of International Supermicrosurgery Lymphedema Center since 2019. He has been focusing on supermicrosurgical lymphaticovenous anastomosis (LVA) since his return from Japan. He has completed 298 LVA up to date. Dr. Yang has published a total of 13 LVA-related articles and two book chapters in the past three years, including an original article in the Journal of American College of Surgeons (JACS), demonstrating the use of LVA on moderate-to-severe lymphedema patients, and seven articles in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS). Dr. Yang was also the first to demonstrate the reduction in oxidative stress and the increase in antioxidant capacity among lymphedema patients after receiving LVA, which was published in Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM).
Fellow of American College of Surgeons
American College of Surgeons
Institute, Department or Faculty Head
Lymphedema Center, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
01 Aug 2019 - present