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Meet the Team Behind This Evidence Review

Four physicians staff the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Dr. Ke He is the responsible physician for this evidence review; the Center Director guarantees the standards the practice is held to, and the team carries the assessment of skin quality and the reversible options that usually come first.

Specialist profiles

Who reviews this content

Ke He

Ke He (何锞)

Deputy Director & Head of Skin & Laser Aesthetics · Attending Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending · Lead Physician of This Site

Cell and tissue products, and what they are approved for · the difference between a laboratory finding and a visible result · the reversible options where a change is wanted

Dr. Ke He is Deputy Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital and head of its skin and laser aesthetic service — and she is the lead physician of this site. A core specialist formerly at the Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery Department of Xinqiao Hospital, affiliated with Army Medical University, she has worked on the clinical front line in skin laser and injectable aesthetics for more than 20 years, serving over ten thousand patients.

On this review his part is the separation of two things that share a name. He describes transplantation as established medicine with named indications and a laboratory behind it, and the cosmetic products as a different category that borrows the vocabulary without the structure, and he will not let the two be discussed as one subject. His test for any claim is what would be present if it were established: a defined product, a measured dose, a comparison group, an assessment made by somebody who does not know which treatment was given. Where a claim has none of those, he says it has none of them rather than describing the rationale as promising. Because an unapproved preparation usually cannot be identified or dissolved afterwards, he sets out how a complication would be managed before it happens, and where a reversible option would answer the question he says so instead of leaving the choice framed as cells or nothing.

Clinical focus

  • What a laboratory finding does and does not establish about a visible result
  • Which product is being offered, and what it is approved for in this market
  • Sterility assurance and release testing in a preparation made at the point of care
  • The documented harm profile of unapproved cell and tissue injections
  • The reversible options, where a change is wanted and permanence is not required

Academic roles & achievements

  • Member, Laser Medicine Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
  • Member, Facial Rejuvenation Group, Chinese Medical Association Plastic Surgery Branch
  • Member, Chongqing Plastic Surgery Quality Control Center
  • Published 5 papers, holds 5 national patents, and introduced 2 new clinical techniques

The word is doing the work, not the product

A phrase that can be applied to fat, to blood, to a plant extract and to a laboratory culture stops identifying anything. The first useful question is therefore not whether stem cell language is accurate but what specific thing is being offered, which regulatory class it sits in, and what has been assessed about that particular thing. That is the order this review follows.

Shaoliang Wang

Shaoliang Wang (王韶亮)

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

Center leadership and multidisciplinary case review

Dr. Shaoliang Wang is Director of the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team he provides the surgical perspective and the tertiary-hospital backstop — the assessment when an operation is the honest answer, and the hospital-level care for the rare complication that needs it.

Within the team, Shaoliang Wang contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

Clinical focus

  • Center leadership and multidisciplinary case review
  • Surgical assessment when an operation is the honest answer to descent or excess skin
  • Hospital-based care for the rare complication that needs theatre-level management
Tongchun Mao

Tongchun Mao (毛彤春)

Deputy Director & Head of Aesthetic Surgery · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending

Aesthetic surgical assessment and refinement of contour and asymmetry

Dr. Tongchun Mao is an aesthetic surgeon within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team his role is refinement and honest referral: he is the person who says so when an operation will do better than an injectable or a device.

Within the team, Tongchun Mao contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

Clinical focus

  • Aesthetic surgical assessment and refinement of contour and asymmetry
  • Honest referral when surgery outperforms a course of injections
  • Shared case planning within the four-physician team
Yongbo Jia

Yongbo Jia (贾勇波)

Deputy Director & Head of Dermatology · Vice Chief Physician, Licensed Aesthetic Attending

Medical skin assessment behind injectable treatment plans

Dr. Yongbo Jia is a dermatologist within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team his role is medical skin assessment — diagnosing and managing pigment and barrier conditions, and treating skin that a device or an injection has irritated.

Within the team, Yongbo Jia contributes to the shared assessment of cases on this site.

Clinical focus

  • Medical skin assessment behind injectable treatment plans
  • Diagnosis and management of pigment and barrier conditions
  • Dermatologic care of skin after irritation or a delayed reaction

A question about the stem cell evidence?

This site is an evidence review rather than a booking page. It does not recommend for or against a treatment, and it does not offer an assessment or a consultation in relation to anything it describes. If something here is unclear, or you want to know how a claim you have seen is graded, contact the team and ask.

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