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CC BY 4.0 · Arch Plast Surg 2023; 50(05): 529-532
DOI: 10.1055/a-2113-3364
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Dialogue with the Giants of Microsurgery: Professor Fu-Chan Wei and Professor Joon Pio Hong

Ankur Khajuria 
1   Kellogg College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
2   Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
,
Wei F. Chen 
3   Department of Plastic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
,
Jung Ju Huang 
4   Division of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center; Chang Gung Medical College and Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
,
Susana Heredero 
5   UGC de Cirugía Maxilofacial, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain
,
Joon-Pio Hong 
6   Department of Plastic Surgery, Asan Medical Centre, Seoul, Korea
,
Fu-Chan Wei 
4   Division of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center; Chang Gung Medical College and Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
,
Tommy Nai-Jen Chang 
4   Division of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Center; Chang Gung Medical College and Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
7   Founder, International Microsurgery Club, Taiwan
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The International Microsurgery Club (IMC) was created by Dr. Tommy Chang (Taiwan), with the webinar series filling the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-induced knowledge gap and providing a platform for microsurgery masters to share knowledge.1 As of April 2023, IMC had more than 19,200 members worldwide.2 An IMC poll identified Professors Fu-Chan Wei and Joon-Pio Hong as the most influential teachers in microsurgery. This article summarizes the lessons from the “Dialogue with the Most Influential Teachers in Microsurgery” webinar on April 9, 2023, divided into technical, nontechnical, and life lesson sections.

Authors' Contributions

A.K.: conception, design, drafting, critical review of manuscript, submission.

W.F.C.: conception ,design, critical review of manuscript.

J.J.H.: conception ,design, critical review of manuscript.

S.H.: conception ,design, critical review of manuscript.

J.P.H.: conception ,design, critical review of manuscript, final approval.

F.-C. W.: conception ,design, critical review of manuscript, final approval.

T.N.-J.C.: conception ,design, drafting, critical review of manuscript, final approval.




Publication History

Received: 21 April 2023

Accepted: 15 June 2023

Accepted Manuscript online:
20 June 2023

Article published online:
05 October 2023

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