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Chen Yu-Ray

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tsinghua SCM
Specialty：Orthognathic Surgery, Face Lift, Facial contouring, Rhinoplasty, Genioplasty
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, China

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Dr. Yu-Ray Chen graduated from the National Taiwan University Medical School in 1972 and did his plastic surgery training at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital under the tutelage of Dr. Samuel Noordhoff. He was a clinical and research fellow with Dr. Ken Salyer and Dr. Ian Munro. He became the Director of the Craniofacial Center until 1997. He then assumed the office of the Superintendent of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital from 1997 to 2003. In September 2006, he became the Chairman of the Chang Gung Steering Committee, which is in charge of six teaching hospitals and institutes with a total of over 10,000 beds and over 1,600 attending physicians.

Throughout his career, he was appointed as Visiting Professor in many distinguished institutions including the University of Illinois in Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Pennsylvania, the Singapore General Hospital, University of Toronto and the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Dr. Chen is a dynamic member of many professional societies. In Taiwan, he had been elected President of the Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Association, the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical Association, and the Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. Internationally, he had also been elected the President of the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery (1997-1999), the Secretary of the Asian-Pacific Craniofacial Association (1993-1997), the General Secretary of the Asian-Pacific Section of IPRAS (2001-2005) and the Maliniac Lecturer of American Society of Plastic Surgeons (2008). Since 1980, Dr. Chen had performed over 3,000 mid-facial and mandibular osteotomies, and numerous cleft and intracranial reconstructions. Dr. Chen has been involved in the teaching and training of more than 250 plastic and craniofacial fellows from 35 countries. He has authored more than 200 publications and has made more than 350 presentations at numerous local and international scientific meetings.

Awards

2004 American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, Special Honorary Award

2008 American Society of Plastic Surgery, The Jacques W. Maliniac Lecture

Major Publications

YR Chen*, KT Chen and MS Noordhoff: Facial elephantiasis neurofibromatosa - excision and skin graft. Ann Plas Surg. 23: 547-551, 1989.

YR Chen*, MS Noordhoff: Treatment of craniomaxillofacial fibrous dysplasia - how early and how extensive? Plast Reconstr Surg. 86: 835-842, 1990.

YR Chen*, RL Bendor-Samuel, CS Huang: Hemimandibular hyperplasia. Plast Reconstr Surg. 97(4): 730-737, 1996.

YR Chen*, VKL Yeow: Multiple-segment osteotomy in maxillofacial surgery. Plast Reconstr Surg 104(2): 381-388, 1999.

T Honda, CH Lin, CC Yu, F Heller, YR Chen*: The Medial surface of the mandible as an alternative source of bone grafts in orthognathic surgery. J Craniofac Surg. 16(1): 123-128; discussion 128, Jan 2005. (Corresponding author)

CC Yu, L Bergeron, C.M., CH Lin, YM Chu, YR Chen*: Single-Splint Technique in Orthognathic Surgery: Intraoperative Checkpoints to Control Facial Symmetry. Plast Reconstr Surg. 124(3): 879-886, Sep., 2009. (Corresponding author)

CS Huang, XQ Liu, YR Chen*: Facial asymmetry index in normal young adults. Orthodontics & Craniofacial Research. 16(2):97-104, May 2013.

Singhal D, SP Hsu, CH Lin, YC Chen, YR Chen*: Trapezoid mortised genioplasty: A further refinement of mortised genioplasty. Laryngoscope. 123(10):2578-2582, Oct. 2013.

CT Chen, Sydney Ch’ng, Faye Huang, YR Chen*: Management of malocclusion and facial asymmetry secondary to fractures of the mandibular condyle process. Ann Plas Surg, 71(Suppl 1):8-12, Dec. 2013.

CS Huang, JS Syu, EW Ko, YR Chen*: Quantitant evaluation of cortical bone thickness in mandbular prognathic patients with neurosensory disturbance after bilateral sagittal split osteotomy. J Oral Maxil Surg. 71(12):e1-10, Dec. 2013.

Book Publications

MS Noordhoff, YR Chen*: Asymmetrical bilateral cleft lip. G. Pfeifer (Ed.): Craniofacial Abnormalities and Cleft of the Lip, Alveolus and Palate. P. 328-330, Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 1991.

YR Chen*: Craniofacial Surgery. TY Lin (Ed): Chinese Modern Surgery Series Vol. 10, Plastic Surgery, Chapter 7, P. 433-474, 1992. (full text in Chinese)

YR Chen* (Ed): Introduction of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery﹝還我本色﹞1995. (full text in Chinese)

YR Chen* (Ed): Craniofacial Surgery 8: Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery. Monduzzi Editore, 1999.

YR Chen*, CC Kao: Craniofacial Tumors and Fibrous Dysplasia. Plastic Surgery: Indications, Operations, and Outcomes Vol. 2, Craniomaxillofacial, Cleft, and Pediatric Surgery, Craig A. Vander Kolk (Ed), Mosby, Chapter 50, P. 729-739, 2000.

YR Chen* (Ed): Craniofacial Anomalies﹝顱顏畸形學﹞2002. (full text in Chinese)

YR Chen*, David E Morris: Craniofacial Tumors (Fibrous Dysplasia), Plastic Surgery Indications and Practice, P.437-454, 2009.

YW Cheong, YR Chen*: Tumors of the Facial Skeleton: Fibrous Dysplasia. Plastic Surgery Vol. 3. Peter C. Neligan (Ed.), P. 380-397, 2012.