Department of Neurosurgery
Taichung, Taiwan (Republic of China)
My name is Chiung-Chyi Shen. Since I took the post of director of neurosurgery in Taichung Veterans General Hospital in 2004, I have devoted to the management that it becomes the largest neurosurgical center in the south of Taipei, with 14 neurosurgery chief physicians, and the assessment is ranked the fourth, next to Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou, and National Taiwan University Hospital. I expect to continuously learn neuroscience and work for Taichung Veterans General Hospital to achieve the professional objective. Two articles, Characterization of endogenous neural progenitor cells after experimental ischemic stroke and Intravenous implanted neural stem cells migrate to injury site, reduce infarct volume, and improve behavior after cerebral ischemia, were published in Current Neurovascular Research in 2010, and Transplantation of adipose tissue-derived stem cells for treatment of focal cerebral ischemia was issued. In the three-year (2010-2012) university collaboration project, six studies on rat neurectomy treated with nerve conduit and stem cells or low-power laser were published in Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A., Journal of biomedical materials research. Part B, Injury, and Journal of Neuroscience and Neuroengineering. I expect devote to the work on minimally invasive microsurgeries of brain and spine and minimally invasive neurosurgeries, including the prevention and treatment of cerebrovascular diseases and cerebra stroke, the development of functional neurosurgery, like brain tissue transplantation for Parkinson’s disease and stereotactic brain ablation for tremor, cancer pain, epilepsy, and disorder, deep brain stimulation for involuntary movement.