陳建志 醫師

和信治癌中心醫院

Dr. Chen was born in Yangmei District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan in 1972 and graduated from National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine in 1999. He then completed his surgical residency training at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center (KFSYSCC) before further completing subspecialty training in Colorectal Surgery. Since completion of subspecialty training in 7/2014, Dr. Chen has been an Attending Colorectal Surgeon at KFSYSCC. He is currently both senior staff member in the Department of Surgery and chairperson of the multidisciplinary colorectal cancer committee.

Dr. Chen’s first stride in the field of Colorectal Surgery was his increased utilization of abdominal laparoscopy, alongside development of an enhanced postoperative recovery program, in 2007. In 2009, he completed an advanced laparoscopy observership under the tutelage of Dr. Jeffrey Milsom at Weill-Cornell Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. In 2010, Dr. Chen began implementing single-incision abdominal laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery (SILS) into his practice, and said method has since then become a standard of care at KFSYSCC.

 After more than six months of preparation and advanced education, Dr. Chen successfully completed his personal first case of transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME) in May of 2013. Since that time, he has intensely dedicated his practice to the advancement of this field. His experiences led to the publication of the first case series regarding taTME originating from Asia in Surgical Endoscopy in 2015. This was then followed by the publication of a case-matched analysis comparing traditional laparoscopic TME to taTME for rectal cancer patients who had undergone neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy in Annals of Surgical Oncology. In 2016, Dr. Chen coordinated the first taTME workshop in Taiwan, followed in 2017 by two cadaver hand-on sessions. He also presented a 120-patient taTME case mid-term survival summary at the 2017 European Association of Endosopic Surgery Annual Meeting (EAES). Beginning in 2018, Dr. Chen was invited to present and as a trainer in standardized taTME training sessions in Beijing, Singapore, and other various Asian cities. Furthermore, he also led KFSYSCC as the first Asian center in recruitment into COLOR III, a multinational randomized clinical trial comparing taTME to traditional laparoscopic TME.

More recently, Dr. Chen has also delved into robotics-assisted surgery for Colorectal Cancer, fusing robotics-arm utilization with a transanal approach. Publications regarding these experiences are forthcoming in various international journals.

Since 2005, Dr. Chen has also been a Taiwan Ministry of Education approved lecturer, lecturing in the field of Surgery at National Yang Ming University School of Medicine. He also took on an analytics role at the Taiwan National Cancer Registry in 2008 and has since then generated annual reports. In 2011, he was appointed to the Taiwan National Health Research Institutes Colorectal Cancer Committee and has played key roles in guiding research that has ultimately determined colorectal cancer treatment quality indicators for the nation. Dr. Chen also received appointment as an instructor of Surgical Oncology to the Taiwan Oncology society in 2012, followed by elected as a board member at the Taiwan Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons in 2018. Most recently, he was appointed member of editorial board for the Asian Journal of Surgery in 2019.