Department Introduction

Nephrology Center | Our Teams

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Our Teams

Chiu-Ching Huang

Consultant
Renal transplantation Dialysis Chronic kidney disease

Ping-Chin Lai

Vice Superintendent
Dr. Ping-Chin Lai specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of kidney diseases; including kidney transplantation, acute and chronic kidney disease, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, hypertension, and diabetes. Dean Lai has extensive experience in kidney transplantation and is good at other kidney-related diseases. Kidney disease usually manifests in hematuria, proteinuria, electrolyte abnormalities, edema, and accompanying hypertension; patients with chronic renal failure (referred to as chronic renal failure) must be considered for hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, or kidney transplantation.

Hsi-Chin Wu

Superintendent
Professor Hsi-Chin Wu focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of unirinary tumor – Prostate cancer, renal cancer, Urothelial carcinoma, testicular cancer, penile cancer. He is a member of the Urological Cancer Committee, Taiwan Urological Association and has participated in composing clinical guide to prostate cancer of National Health Research Institutes Taiwan Cancer Clinical Research Collaboration Organization. For 2008 and 2012, he travelled to Hospital of University of California, Irvine and Celebration Hospital, Florida for training on robotic arm procedures. He also specializes in minimally invasive procedures including Cryotherapy and HIFU, providing customizable treatment for patients.

Chao-Hsiang Chang

Director-General
Director Chao-Hsiang Chang completed his Urology Specialist training at Taichung Veterans General Hospital and was an attending physician there. He went to Ann Arbor Medical Center, University of Michigan for advanced training. In 1995, he took the position of Director of Department of Urology, Dali Rengai Hospital, and has been working at the Hospital since 2001. He specializes in complication in urinating, and minimally invasive urological procedures (laparoscope and Da Vinci Procedure System), including urinary incontinence and Neurogenic Bladder, bladder prolapse, swelling of prostatomegaly, renal cancer, epidermal cancer, bladder cancer, prostate cancer, director and vice president of Taiwan Urological Association (Central region)

Chi-Ping Huang

Director
After completing the training course of urology at Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Director Chi-Ping Huang worked as the director of the Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy center at Chiayi Veterans General Hospital. His specialties include the diagnosis and treatment of urological malignancy (such as prostate cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, and ureter cancer), minimally invasive surgery, and kidney transplantation. Doctor Huang has many experiences in performing surgeries using the daVinCi robotic surgery system and has accumulated over a thousand cases. He had received training courses of robotic-assisted surgery for prostatectomy and partial nephrectomy for kidney tumors at the Center for Advanced Robotic Surgery at the Ohio State University Medical Center in the United States. He also as well as had further training courses of kidney transplantation at the Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital in Japan. He is also skilled in performing minimally invasive laser surgery for benign prostatic hyperplasia and cell therapy for urological cancers.

Hung-Chieh Yeh

Director
Dr. Hung-Chieh Yeh specializes in the diagnoses and treatments of acute and chronic kidney diseases including common kidney diseases, nephropathy, glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, acute kidney failure and chronic kidney diseases. Dr. Hung-Chieh Yeh received complete training of nephrology in National Taiwan University Hospital. Generally speaking, kidney diseases are usually accompanied with the symptoms such as hematuria, proteinuria, electrolyte imbalance, edema and hypertension. The patients with chronic kidney failure should consider the treatments like dialysis, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis and the dialysis for critical illness. Dr. Hung-Chieh Yeh is also an expert in this field.

Chin-Chi Kuo

Vice Superintendent
Clinical Data Research
Biostatistics
Epidemiologic Methods
Environmental Sciences
Clinical Medicine and Nephrology

I-Kuan Wang

Director
Dialysis Chronic Kidney disease Hypertension

Chiz-Tzung Chang

Counselor Rank Attending Physician
Blood Purification Clinical and basic lipid research Fluid and electrolyte disorder
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