Peter Chen Taiwan

Dr. Chen was born in 1972 in Yangmei District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. After graduating from National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine in 1999, he completed his surgical residency at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center (KFSYSCC). In July 2004, having finished subspecialty training in colorectal surgery, he joined KFSYSCC as an Attending Colorectal Surgeon. Over the next few years, Dr. Chen became deputy chief of the Department of Surgery and assumed the role of chairperson of the multidisciplinary colorectal cancer committee. In 2007, Dr. Chen introduced advanced abdominal laparoscopy alongside an enhanced postoperative recovery program at KFSYSCC. Two years later, he pursued a fellowship in advanced laparoscopy under Dr. Jeffrey Milsom at Weill-Cornell Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Upon returning to Taiwan in 2009, he implemented single-incision laparoscopic colorectal surgery (SILS), establishing it as the standard of care at KFSYSCC. Dr. Chen’s dedication to transanal total mesorectal excision (TaTME) began in May 2013, when he performed his first case after more than six months of intensive preparation. His Asian case series was published in Surgical Endoscopy in 2015, followed by a matched analysis comparing TaTME to traditional laparoscopic TME in Annals of Surgical Oncology. In 2016 and 2017, he led Taiwan’s first TaTME workshops and cadaveric hands-on sessions. By 2018, Dr. Chen was invited to train surgeons in Beijing, Singapore, the Netherlands, and other cities, and he spearheaded KFSYSCC’s participation in the multinational COLOR III trial. More recently, Dr. Chen has focused on robotics-assisted colorectal surgery. By 2024, he had performed over 650 robotic-assisted procedures and organized more than ten advanced robotic workshops. Since 2005, he has served as a lecturer in surgery at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University School of Medicine. He took on an analytics role at the Taiwan National Cancer Registry in 2008 and became its secretary-general in 2020. Additionally, he has represented Taiwan’s colorectal cancer committees at national and international conferences, contributing to treatment quality indicators and research initiatives. To date, Dr. Chen has authored over 30 peer-reviewed papers and delivered more than 275 presentations around the world.