Yu-Chung Wu, MD

Thoracic Surgery

SPECIALTY/PRACTICE AREAS：
● Minimally invasive thoracic surgery (lung, esophagus, mediastinum, pleural diseases)
● Thoracic surgical oncology (lung cancer, esophageal cancer, thymic tumor, pleural and chest wall tumor)
● Critical care of medicine and thoracic surgery
LANGUAGES SPOKEN：
• English
• Chinese

 

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION：

• Bachelor of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan

   

ADMINSTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS：

• Assistant Professor of Surgery, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
• Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
• Chief, Thoracic surgery intensive care unit, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
• Clinical observer, Thoracic Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY10021
• Research scholar, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY10021
• Attending Surgeon, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
• Resident in Surgery, Department of Surgery, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan
• Intern, Chun-ho Memorial Hospital of Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan

   

PUBLICATIONS：

• Wu YC, Chiu CF, Hsueh CT, Hsueh CT. The role of bile acids in cellular invasiveness of gastric cancer. Cancer Cell Int. 2018 May 21;18:75
• Chiang CL, Wang LC, Ho HL, Tsai CM, Yeh YC, Hsu WH, Chou TY, Chiu CH*, Wu YC*. Effect of postoperative systemic therapy on pulmonary adenocarcinoma with unexpected pleural spread detected during thoracotomy or thoracoscopy. Oncotarget. 2017 Dec 26;9(4):5435-5444. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.23686. eCollection 2018 Jan 12.