Dr. Chao-Yun Wu

About

Operative work at NUWA Fertility Center Taipei sits under its own named post rather than being folded into general clinic duties: three physicians carry the title Director of Reproductive Surgery, and Dr. Chao-Yun Wu is one of them. The title marks the part of an assisted reproduction programme that happens around a cycle instead of inside it — cysts removed before stimulation, adhesions cleared, a uterine cavity corrected before any embryo is placed.

Medical training was at National Taiwan University College of Medicine. Before NUWA, Dr. Wu was Attending Physician in the Department of Infertility at Mackay Memorial Hospital — a distinction that matters, because infertility is staffed at Mackay as a department of its own, with its own attending physicians, rather than as an outpatient corner of general gynecology.

The practice itself runs in tiers rather than as a single service. Cycle work comes first (infertility evaluation, IUI, IVF), followed by one cryopreservation line covering egg, embryo and sperm freezing, and finally the two operative routes — laparoscopy from the abdominal side, hysteroscopy through the cervix. Polycystic ovary syndrome and endometriosis are the named diagnoses, and they are the two conditions that most often generate the surgical decisions in that last tier.

Clinical Expertise

• Infertility evaluation and treatment: assessment of both partners and sorting the cause into hormonal, tubal, uterine, male factor or unexplained, since that classification sets which of the remaining services is even relevant.
• IUI: insemination timed to ovulation, the lower-intervention option when tubes are open and semen parameters allow it.
• IVF: stimulation, monitoring, retrieval and transfer, with the starting protocol chosen against age and ovarian response.
• Egg freezing: vitrification of oocytes for someone postponing pregnancy, where the number obtainable depends on how the ovaries respond at the time of the cycle.
• Fertility preservation by freezing: the same bench work extended to embryos and to sperm, so a couple mid-treatment, a man before gonadotoxic therapy, and a woman freezing eggs are handled within one service rather than three.
• Polycystic ovary syndrome: ovulation induction where response varies widely between patients, with attention to hyperstimulation risk and to the metabolic and menstrual features that come alongside it.
• Endometriosis: judgement about how disease affects egg recruitment, tubal function and implantation, and about whether operating improves those or costs ovarian tissue.
• Laparoscopy: keyhole access to the pelvis for endometriotic lesions, ovarian cysts including chocolate cysts, tubal disease and pelvic adhesion, with the timing of any cycle planned around the recovery interval.
• Hysteroscopic surgery: inspection of the cavity through the cervix and removal of polyps, submucosal fibroids, adhesions and septum, the procedure that readies the lining before an embryo is placed.

Why Choose Dr. Wu

A surgical directorship, not a generalist with a scope. NUWA gives the operative side of its programme a titled post shared by three physicians, so a patient who needs a procedure has it done by someone whose named role is that work. The distinction is worth checking against clinics where cycle physicians also operate without any separate designation.

Prior attending physician in a dedicated infertility department. The Mackay Memorial Hospital appointment sits in a Department of Infertility, meaning the years before NUWA were spent in a unit organised around fertility causes and treatment stages, where surgical findings and stimulation results are discussed by the same team.

Two operative routes in one set of hands. Laparoscopy and hysteroscopy approach the reproductive tract from opposite directions: the pelvic cavity and ovaries from outside, the endometrial cavity from within. Dr. Wu covers both, so a patient with, say, an endometriotic cyst and a fundal polyp has both questions answered by one physician instead of two separate referrals.

Freezing offered for eggs, embryos and sperm together. Cryopreservation here reaches the male as well as the female side, which is the configuration needed when a couple banks material before treatment or accumulates embryos across more than one retrieval.

Case material covers difficult ovarian situations. NUWA’s patient stories include a couple trying for four years before IVF, a 45-year-old who conceived on the first transfer after switching to donor egg, a 44-year-old who conceived from nine retrieved eggs, and an elective egg freezing account. Those are the low-reserve and advanced-age situations where protocol judgement is tested.

Professional Affiliations

Dr. Chao-Yun Wu holds a degree from National Taiwan University College of Medicine. The earlier appointment was attending physician in the Department of Infertility at Mackay Memorial Hospital. The current post is Director of Reproductive Surgery on NUWA’s reproductive medicine team, where operative work is a defined responsibility rather than an addition to general clinic duties.

Suitable For

Endometriotic cysts or pelvic adhesions to settle before stimulation: operating on an ovarian cyst can improve access to follicles while also removing healthy tissue, so the decision has to be made with the retrieval date in view. Laparoscopy and endometriosis sit alongside IVF in this practice, which keeps the timing question inside one consultation.

Polyp, adhesion or septum correction before transfer: cavity pathology lowers implantation odds whether or not the embryo is chromosomally normal, and hysteroscopic correction is a short procedure that changes what the next transfer is trying to achieve.

Egg, embryo or sperm freezing ahead of deferred family planning: freezing works best as a planned cycle rather than an emergency, and the number obtained depends on ovarian reserve on the day. The elective indication — freezing with no medical deadline behind it — is the version where expectation-setting matters most.

PCOS cycles needing close response monitoring: the same dose can produce little response in one patient and hyperstimulation in another, so monitoring frequency and trigger timing carry the safety of the cycle.

Diminished ovarian reserve, where donor egg is under discussion: repeated retrievals yielding few oocytes is the situation in which changing the plan beats repeating it, and the advanced-age cases NUWA reports — a 45-year-old who conceived after switching to donor egg, a 44-year-old who conceived from nine retrieved eggs — map onto that conversation.