Shaoliang Wang, MD

Shaoliang Wang, MD (王韶亮)

Director, Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center · Vice Chief Physician, Associate Professor, Doctor of Medicine

Flap and graft reconstruction · skin grafts · scar contracture

Dr. Shaoliang Wang is Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and the lead physician of this site’s flap and graft reconstruction content. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery at Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, and brings more than two decades of tertiary-hospital surgical experience to his practice.

His reconstructive practice covers the problems this site is built around: skin grafting for traumatic, post-burn and post-excision defects; local, regional and free flap reconstruction; release and resurfacing of scar contracture across joints; reconstruction of facial and scalp soft-tissue defects; and the salvage of failed reconstruction from elsewhere. Two decades of tertiary-hospital surgery inform every opinion he gives.

Clinical focus

  • Skin grafting: split-thickness and full-thickness graft planning and fixation
  • Local, regional and free flap reconstruction of soft-tissue defects
  • Scar contracture release and resurfacing across joints
  • Reconstruction of facial and scalp soft-tissue defects after tumour excision or trauma
  • Excision and repair of skin tumours with margin control and layered closure
  • Salvage and revision of failed grafts, flaps and reconstruction from elsewhere

Academic roles & achievements

  • Member, Craniofacial Surgery Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
  • Deputy Chair, Chongqing Medical Aesthetics & Beauty Committee
  • Standing Committee Member, Chongqing Medical Doctor Association Plastic Surgery Branch
  • Expert Panel, Chongqing Aesthetic Surgery Quality Control Center
  • Developed a new endoscope- and water-jet-assisted technique for removing injected polyacrylamide (Aomingding) breast filler; awarded the Wang Liangneng Cup Military Excellent Scientific Paper Award
  • Principal investigator on an international cooperation sub-project, a Chongqing Natural Science Foundation grant, and a Third Military Medical University technology-transfer project; published 4 SCI papers and holds 8 national invention patents

A hospital-based advantage

A flap needs to be watched closely for the first days after surgery, and a failing graft or flap sometimes needs to return to theatre quickly. When microsurgical monitoring, theatre-level care, pathology and intensive care are already in the same building, that backstop is real rather than theoretical.