Your Team

Meet the Team Behind a Review

The second-opinion service sits inside the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center of Chongqing West District Hospital, a tertiary general hospital. Reviews are carried out by a surgeon who was not involved in your care, with the centre’s surgical, skin and dermatology leads available on the questions that fall to them.

Shaoliang Wang, MD (王韶亮)

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

Second-opinion review · plastic surgery · revision and complex repair

Dr. Shaoliang Wang is Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital, and the reviewing surgeon for this service. 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. He uses he and his pronouns.

In this service his role is to read — operative notes, histology reports, imaging files, clinical photographs, and the plan that has been proposed — and to state in writing what the record supports, what it does not, and what would have to be examined to settle the remainder. His revision and reconstructive work shapes that reading: he sees, more often than most, what a plan looks like years later, and he is willing to give the opinion that a plan should not proceed.

Clinical focus

Independent review of records, imaging and proposed plans in plastic and aesthetic surgery
Surgical removal of skin tumors with margin control and layered cosmetic closure
Excision and repair of moles, cysts, and other superficial lesions
Scar revision and comprehensive scar management after burns and trauma
Repair of failed aesthetic operations from elsewhere (revision and reconstruction)
Complex wound repair and tertiary-hospital surgical support for dermatologic cases

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

What a reviewer owes you

A review must say what it cannot see. Tissue quality, healing, the way a scar behaves and how a feature moves in animation are not in the file, and a reviewer who does not name those gaps is overstating the opinion. Where the records are incomplete, the honest answer is that they are incomplete.

Wider Team

The leads behind the questions that fall outside the file

A records review reaches its limit quickly when a question turns on skin, on histology, or on how an operation was sequenced. Those questions are passed to the centre’s leads.

Tongchun Mao, MD (毛彤春)

Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Services · Aesthetic Surgery

He advises the review on surgical technique, on sequencing and staging, and on whether an operation is warranted at all. A core specialist formerly at the plastic and aesthetic surgery department of Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, with more than 20 years in practice. He uses he and his pronouns.

Ke He, MD (何锞)

Deputy Director & Head of Skin & Laser Aesthetics

She advises on the skin questions a review can and cannot answer, and on what has to be examined in person rather than judged from a photograph. A core specialist formerly at Xinqiao Hospital, with more than 20 years in skin laser and aesthetic dermatology. She uses she and her pronouns.

Yongbo Jia, MD (贾勇波)

Deputy Director & Head of Dermatology

He advises on diagnosis, on histology and laboratory results, and on pigment and scar behaviour. Trained in dermatology at the Institute of Dermatology, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and at Chongqing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He uses he and his pronouns.

Start with your records, not a decision

Send the notes, images and the plan you have been given, and ask your questions in writing. A surgeon who was not involved in your care will read them, set out the options and the reasoning behind them, and state plainly what the records do not show. A review may confirm the plan you have; it may raise something that was not discussed; it cannot guarantee a better outcome, and the decision remains yours.

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