Dr. Ching-Hui Chen

About

Ching-Hui Chen runs NUWA Fertility Center Taipei as chief executive while keeping an attending physician appointment inside the same clinic, the least usual pairing among its physicians. The medical degree came from the College of Medicine at Taipei Medical University, followed by graduate public health study at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The administrative appointments sit at the university hospital where the medical degree was earned.

The hospital posts are the other half of the background. Vice Director, Department of Reproductive Medicine and Director, Department of Gynecology at Taipei Medical University Hospital are two different lenses on the same patient: the reproductive unit asks how to achieve pregnancy this cycle, the gynecology unit asks what fibroids, endometrial disease and general pelvic pathology mean for the body a pregnancy has to grow in. Teaching posts run along both lines, as assistant professor of the Department of Gynecology at Taipei Medical University and as an assistant professor designated by the Ministry of Education.

Care is weighted toward preservation and selection: infertility testing and treatment, IVF, IUI, egg freezing, egg freezing specifically for patients with cancer, frozen embryos, PGS/PGD screening, recurrent miscarriage and hysteroscopy. Freezing eggs before cancer treatment stays a separate commitment from elective freezing, which is the distinction between banking eggs on one’s own schedule and banking them inside a window someone else’s oncology treatment defines.

Clinical Expertise

• Infertility testing, diagnosis and treatment: the couple assessed together, with causes ranked by how much they change the plan, before a treatment level is proposed.
• IVF and IUI: two intervention levels, chosen by diagnosis, age and reserve, with the step between them being a decision rather than an automatic escalation.
• Egg freezing: oocytes retrieved and frozen when pregnancy is being deferred, with counselling built around how many were obtained and what that number realistically buys later.
• Egg freezing before cancer treatment: the same procedure under time pressure, needing stimulation and retrieval squeezed into the interval before chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery starts, with coordination into the oncology calendar.
• Frozen embryos: cryopreservation of surplus embryos from a retrieval, used where transfer is unsafe in the fresh cycle, where the endometrium needs preparation first, or where a later single embryo transfer is planned.
• PGS / PGD: screening embryos for chromosome number where maternal age, failed cycles or losses have raised the question, and targeted testing where a specific inherited condition is already known; each carries its own limits on what a result can guarantee.
• Recurrent miscarriage: embryo genetics, cavity shape, hormonal support and immune factors reviewed against the actual history, so the next cycle differs from the failed ones on a stated reason.
• Hysteroscopy: direct inspection of the uterine cavity with removal of polyps, adhesions and septum, the step taken when implantation is being blocked by anatomy rather than by the embryo.

Why Choose Dr. Chen

Executive responsibility and clinical practice in the same person. A chief executive who still holds an attending physician post at the clinic sees the consequences of operational choices in the cycles actually run. For a patient, that mainly affects what can be asked directly: laboratory standards, scheduling practice and referral policy are decisions within the same organisation.

Public health doctorate behind the medical degree. The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health training sits after a Taipei Medical University medical degree, and the field it teaches — clinical epidemiology, biostatistics, study design — is the equipment needed to read a published success rate rather than accept it: what the denominator was, whose patients were included, what the confidence interval covers.

Two departmental leadership posts at a university hospital. Leading the reproductive medicine department and the gynecology department at Taipei Medical University Hospital means gynecologic disease and fertility planning were managed as one career rather than as successive specialties. Where a patient has fibroids or endometrial pathology alongside a fertility goal, the conflict between treating the disease and preserving the timetable is the central question, and it is the question this combination addresses.

Preservation before cancer treatment, treated as its own task. Egg freezing for healthy patients and egg freezing for patients with cancer are two separate commitments here rather than one service. Medical freezing differs from elective freezing in that the deadline is set by another team, the stimulation protocol has to be negotiated with the oncology schedule, and the counselling happens while a cancer diagnosis is recent.

Office roles inside two professional associations. Supervisor of the Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Vice Secretary-General of the Taiwan Association for Minimally Invasive Gynecology are working positions within the organisations, not dues-paying membership, and the second corresponds to the endoscopic side of the practice.

Professional Affiliations

Association office: Supervisor of the Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Vice Secretary-General of the Taiwan Association for Minimally Invasive Gynecology, both working positions rather than ordinary membership. Hospital leadership: Vice Director, Department of Reproductive Medicine and Director, Department of Gynecology at Taipei Medical University Hospital. Academic: Assistant Professor, Department of Gynecology, Taipei Medical University, and Assistant Professor designated by the Ministry of Education. The medical degree is from the College of Medicine at Taipei Medical University; the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health training that followed is graduate work in public health, held at both master’s and doctoral level. The current post is attending physician in NUWA’s reproductive medicine team.

Suitable For

Cancer patients who must finish egg freezing before therapy begins: ovarian damage from chemotherapy and pelvic radiotherapy is often permanent, and preservation cannot begin once treatment has, so the window is measured in weeks and the calendar belongs to the oncology team. Freezing eggs before cancer treatment is a stated area of practice here, separate from elective freezing.

Recurrent miscarriage with more than one possible cause: losses trace back variously to embryo genetics, the shape of the cavity, hormone support or immune activity, and investigating only one branch leaves the others unexamined. Recurrent miscarriage, PGS/PGD and hysteroscopy all fall to the same physician, so the branches can be worked through in one assessment.

Couples weighing whether embryo screening applies to them: maternal age, likely embryo numbers and previous cycle results all shift the balance, and a screening result answers a narrower question than most patients expect. Public health training in study design is directly relevant to explaining those limits rather than quoting a success figure.

Polyps or adhesions to correct before an embryo transfer: intrauterine pathology reduces implantation independently of embryo quality, so a transfer into an uncorrected cavity repeats a disadvantage. Hysteroscopy is the diagnostic and corrective step, and it is part of this practice.

Patients who ask what evidence a recommendation rests on: a proposal to add a test, screen embryos or move from insemination to IVF can be answered either by clinic routine or by the underlying data, and this physician combines a clinical practice with graduate training in epidemiology and statistics plus a university teaching post.