Huang-Kai Kao

Specialties 

  • Head and neck reconstruction
  • Cosmetic surgery
    • Double eyelid surgery
    • Eye bag removal
    • Facelift
    • Liposuction & Autologous Fat Grafting
  • Stem cell research

Fluent Languages

  • Mandarin ,English ,Taiwanese Hokkien

Current Position

  • Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung University
  • Ministry of Education Accredited Associate Professor
  • Attending Physician, Department of Plastic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital

Education

  • Chang Gung University, Department of Medicine

Experience

  • Director of Microsurgical Reconstructive Plastic Surgery
  • 1998-2004: Resident Physician, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
  • 2009-2010: Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital 

Certifications

  • Taiwan Surgical Association
  • Taiwan Society for Surgery of the Hand
  • Taiwan Society of Plastic Surgery
  • Taiwan Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery

Publications 

  • Evaluation of Lymphatic and Vascular Invasion in Relation to Clinicopathological Factors and Treatment Outcome in Oral Cavity Squamous Cell Carcinoma.
  • Experimental study of fat grafting under negative pressure for wounds with exposed bone.
  • Pretreatment interleukin-6 serum levels are associated with patient survival for oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma.
  • Serum CXCL9 levels are associated with tumor progression and treatment outcome in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
  • Collagen synthesis modulated in wounds treated by pulsed radiofrequency energy.
  • The roles of albumin levels in head and neck cancer patients with liver cirrhosis undergoing tumor ablation and microsurgical free tissue transfer.
  • Comparison of the medial sural artery perforator flap with the radial forearm flap for head and neck reconstructions.