Dr. Chi-Chun Liao

About

Two features of how Dr. Chi-Chun Liao’s practice is built say more about the daily shape of the work than most job titles do. Embryo, egg and sperm freezing sit on one service line rather than three; follicle monitoring is treated as a discipline in its own right. Both belong to a practice organized around running cycles — following which follicles are responding, timing the retrieval, and deciding what gets used fresh and what gets stored. The current position is Medical Director of Reproductive Medicine and Attending Physician at NUWA Fertility Center, where that cycle-side experience is joined to responsibility for treatment protocols and how the clinic’s departments work together.

Medical school was the School of Medicine at National Defense Medical Center. Hospital practice then ran through two Taipei-area institutions: physician of reproductive medicine at Mackay Memorial Hospital, then Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital, a Ministry of Health and Welfare facility, where the posts were physician of gynecology and director of the reproductive medicine center — a combined clinical and administrative role rather than an honorary title. In a hospital setting that center covers the whole infertility service, from initial workup through insemination and IVF, and the director is answerable for its medical quality rather than only for individual patients.

Care lines up along that same sequence: diagnosis and treatment of infertility, IVF and IUI as the two intervention levels, follicle monitoring and reproductive endocrinology for the hormonal layer, three cryopreservation services, hysteroscopy and laparoscopy as the two operative routes, and the three causes most of that surgery and monitoring is aimed at — polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis and uterine fibroids.

Clinical Expertise

• Infertility diagnosis and treatment: deciding how deep the investigation has to go before anything is treated, since a normal result only helps if the right test was ordered in the first place.
• IVF: stimulation designed around the individual patient and revised as the cycle unfolds, with retrieval, laboratory culture and the transfer itself planned together rather than as three separate events.
• IUI: processed sperm placed into the cavity at the estimated fertile window, used where ovulation can be induced and the remaining factors are close to normal.
• Follicle monitoring: serial ultrasound tracking of follicle growth together with endometrial thickness, which sets trigger timing for insemination and for retrieval, and is the step that separates a monitored cycle from a blind one.
• Reproductive endocrinology: hormone assessment and correction of the endocrine conditions that block ovulation or compromise implantation, including PCOS, where the practical problem is unpredictable drug response and the risk of hyperstimulation.
• Egg, embryo and sperm freezing: vitrification of oocytes, embryos or sperm for patients deferring pregnancy, before gonadotoxic treatment, or when a fresh transfer is not possible on retrieval day.
• Hysteroscopic surgery: transcervical inspection and treatment of polyps, intrauterine adhesions, submucosal fibroids and cavity shape, performed to make the transfer environment normal before an embryo is placed rather than after another failure.
• Laparoscopy and endometriosis: pelvic disease, endometriotic cysts and tubal pathology dealt with through keyhole surgery, where the judgment call is whether operating improves the chance of pregnancy or costs ovarian tissue that the next stimulation would need.

Why Choose Dr. Liao

A hospital reproductive center under direction, not only under practice. The Shuang Ho appointment pairs physician of gynecology with director of the reproductive medicine center at the same Ministry of Health and Welfare hospital. Center directors see the whole line — workup, laboratory handover, scheduling, outcomes — so a problem in one stage is identified as a stage problem rather than assumed to be the patient’s.

Cause first, cycle second. Endometriosis, PCOS and fibroids are the three most frequent structural and endocrine reasons women present with infertility, and hysteroscopy plus laparoscopy are how those get corrected. All five fall inside one practice, which means the disease and the fertility plan are settled in the same consultation instead of in separate clinics with separate timelines.

Preservation decisions in a single visit. Egg, embryo and sperm freezing are handled by the same physician, so a patient who may need one, several or none of them gets the comparison in one place, and the choice can be made against current ovarian response rather than in the abstract.

Monitoring treated as a discipline of its own. Ultrasound follicle tracking and endometrial assessment carry the same weight here as reproductive endocrinology, which is the practical core of stimulation safety — dose, response, trigger timing and hyperstimulation risk are all read from those scans.

Professional Affiliations

The current position is Medical Director of Reproductive Medicine and Attending Physician at NUWA Fertility Center. The hospital years that led there were spent as physician of reproductive medicine at Mackay Memorial Hospital, then at Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital under the Ministry of Health and Welfare, where the posts were first physician of gynecology and then director of that hospital’s reproductive medicine center.

The medical degree came from the School of Medicine at National Defense Medical Center.

Suitable For

Complex cases needing center-level judgment: where a cycle has already failed once, the fault often sits in coordination between stimulation, laboratory and transfer rather than in one clinical decision, and a physician who has directed a hospital reproductive center looks at the sequence instead of only the prescription.

Endometriosis or fibroids alongside infertility: these cases turn on ordering — operate first, or stimulate first — and the wrong order can cost either ovarian reserve or time. Laparoscopy, hysteroscopy and both conditions are covered in one practice, so the sequencing argument happens within one assessment.

Ovulation disorder and endocrine imbalance: PCOS and other endocrine causes make drug response uneven, which is why monitoring and hormone assessment are treated as core work here; cycles in this group are usually adjusted dose by dose rather than run on a standard protocol.

Egg, embryo or sperm freezing plans: how many oocytes a preservation cycle will yield depends on reserve at the time of retrieval, so the storage decision and the stimulation decision have to be made together and in one visit.

Cavity correction needed before transfer: polyps, adhesions and abnormal cavity shape reduce implantation per attempt, and hysteroscopic treatment before transfer avoids spending cycles on an environment that has not been fixed.