Current Chairman: Sheau-Chiou Chao Educational background: M.D., College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Experience: Research fellow at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, U.S.A. Current job: Associate Professor and Chairman of Department of Dermatology,
Director of Dermatological Surgery Specialty: General dermatology, pediatric dermatology, skin surgery, and molecular genetics of
hereditary skin diseases Former Directors: First Chairman: Prof. J. Yu-Yun Lee (August 1988 – July 1996) Second Chairman: Associate Prof. Ming-Long Hsu (August 1996 – July 1999) Third Chairman: Prof. Hamm-Ming Sheu (August 1999-) Faculty and staff members: 2 professors, 2 associate professors and one assistant professor, 3
attending dermatologists, 6 residents, 2 medical technicians and one
administration assistant.
The Department has 4 Divisions
1. Dermatopathology (Director—Prof. J. Yu-Yun Lee)
2. Infectious disease and Immunodermatology (Director—Prof. Hamm-Ming Sheu)
3. Phototherapy (Director—Associate Prof. Ming-Long Hsu)
4. Dermatological Surgery (Director—Associate Prof. Sheau-Chiou Chao)
I. History The University Hospital was founded in June 1988 and the Department of Dermatology was formally established in August 1988 with Prof. Lee serving as the first Chairman. Prof. Lee had put great emphasis on providing high quality medical service and training of residents, medical students and interns. She also focused academic development on the areas of dermatopathology, mycology, molecular genetics of genetic diseases, skin cancer, skin barrier function and physiology, and has built a sound basis for the continuous growth of the department. The succeeding chairmen have continued these traditions. The department quickly became one of the top-ranked dermatology departments in Taiwan.
II. Goals and missions The goals and missions of the department are (1) to provide modern and high quality care of patients with skin diseases, (2) to offer quality dermatology training for medical students and residents, (3) to provide tertiary referral service, (4) to offer medical education to the general public. With continuous growth of clinical skill and dermatologic research, we will advance the knowledge of dermatology, and quality of dermatology services in Taiwan.
III. Introduction and characteristics All 5 faculty members are nationally certified professors with broad dermatology experience and individual specialty areas:
Professor Lee is board certified in 3 separate specialties, dermatology, pathology and dermatopathology. The comprehensive training background and experience make her not only an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of diverse cutaneous and systemic diseases, but also provide needed assistance in various clinical as well as basic research.
Professor Sheu’s areas of interest and expertise include contact dermatitis and occupational dermatoses, skin physiology, skin barrier functions, and pathogenesis of skin cancers.
Associate Professor Hsu is a national expert in cutaneous mycology. He also has special interest in computer applications in clinical medicine. He has developed and maintained an award-wining dermatology website (eskin). In 2005, he completed the development for the department a comprehensive and integrated computer software system “Crux” for medical data and image recording and fast retrieving of the data.
Associate Professor Chao is specialized in pediatric dermatology and skin surgery with research interests in molecular genetic study of hereditary skin diseases.
Assistant Professor Tak-Wah Wong is interested in keloid and skin tumors. He is a pioneer of photodynamic therapy in dermatology in Taiwan. His research is focused on the areas of mechanism and effects of photodynamic therapy.
Dr. Chiao-Chun Yang is a junior staff dermatologist of the department. His areas of interest are in the treatment and pathogenesis of alopecia and hair transplantation.
Dr. Tze-Kai Lin and Dr. Chao-Kai Hsu are new staff dermatologists interested in cosmetic dermatology and dermatopathology, respectively.
Clinical services
Outpatient service: Besides diagnosis, appraisal, therapy and surgery for general dermatological diseases, there are still special outpatient services like laser and cosmetic dermatology clinics, atopic dermatitis clinic, etc. In addition, there are UV therapy, photodynamic therapy, alopecia clinic and hair transplantation surgery. A weekly Wednesday afternoon special clinic is devoted to manage difficult referral cases from various other dermatology clinics.
In-patient service: There are six beds for inpatients. Burn center bed available to for patients with severe or acute dermatological diseases
Emergency/consultations: consultations for patients with dermatological disease in emergency service and the inpatients of other disciplines.
Medical equipments and facilities:
1. Phototherapy Units—UVA, UVB both broad band and narrow band machines of whole body and hand-foot treatment for various types of UV therapy for psoriasis, vitiligo, eczema, etc.
2. Dermatopathology Laboratory—pathological diagnosis of skin surgical specimens and immunofluorescence studies.
3. Mycology Laboratory— for culture and identification of fungus
4. Skin Physiology Room—various equipments for tests of physiological functions of the skin.
5. Laser center- Ruby laser and pulse dye laser for hyperpigmentation and hemangioma, telangiectasia. Intense Pulsed Light(IPL), StarLux, Gentle YAG,Medline C6.
6. Dermatologic Surgery and Treatment Rooms in the clinics- for outpatient surgery.
7. Photodynamic therapy- treatment of various superficial skin cancers.
8. Liquid nitrogen, hifricators and CO2 laser to treat various skin tumors.
Teaching: In addition to a residency training program, the Department is also responsible for teaching dermatology to medical students and interns of the College of Medicine, NCKU. Each year, there are around 70 6th year medical students and 10 interns undergoing clinical rotation in the Department. The teaching takes place in the clinics, bedside and classrooms as well as in conference settings including weekly clinicopathology conference, grand round, pathology conference, consultation case conference, etc.
Research: The department has put in strong efforts in clinical and basic dermatologic research and has published more than 200 papers, mostly in SCI journals, on various dermatologic disorders, and has won many excellent paper awards.
Dermatopathology signout teaching
The department staff has won best thesis award many times.
Mycology teaching
Laser therapy
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