Areas of Expertise

Zan Tao works in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital. With years of experience, he specializes in scar treatment, eye and nose plastic surgery, minimally invasive cosmetic procedures, and more.

Biography

Tao Zan, male, is a Chief Physician, Doctoral Supervisor, and Research Fellow in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine.
In 2008, he received his PhD in Plastic Surgery from Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. He has been a visiting scholar in the Department of Plastic Surgery at the University of Michigan, USA, and at Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, France.
In the field of plastic and reconstructive surgery, Chief Physician Tao Zan has long been committed to tackling the repair and reconstruction of severe craniofacial disfigurement, scar repair, and regenerative medicine, advancing clinical diagnosis and treatment and scientific research in tandem. The team led by Professor Qingfeng Li, of which he is a member, abandoned the mainstream overseas approach of facial allotransplantation, which has many problems, and took a novel approach using autologous tissue repair. Building on traditional tissue expansion repair techniques, they proposed a series of new techniques represented by “tissue prefabrication repair” and “stem cell-mediated skin expansion regeneration”, established a treatment system for severe craniofacial disfigurement, and systematically improved the efficacy of treatment for common burn scars, significantly reducing the number of operations; the reoperation rate decreased from 72.5% to 19.2%. For total facial disfigurement that was previously untreatable, the new treatment effectively reconstructed facial form and function, avoided many problems associated with facial allotransplantation, and was praised by international peers as “Chinese-style face replacement”.
In aesthetic plastic surgery, Chief Physician Tao Zan is proficient in various surgical and minimally invasive aesthetic procedures, including rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, fat grafting, botulinum toxin injection, hyaluronic acid filler injection, and others, performing hundreds of procedures annually. Drawing on solid aesthetic training and long-term clinical experience, he has distinctive insights into aesthetic plastic surgery. He also insists on face-to-face consultations, analyzes each patient's specific condition, and customizes individualized surgical plans, always upholding the compassionate heart of a physician.
Chief Physician Tao Zan is currently Vice Chair of the Youth Committee of the Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; a member of the Youth Committee of the Plastic Surgery Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; a member of the Youth Committee of the Tissue Repair and Regeneration Branch of the Chinese Medical Association; a member of the Microsurgery Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; a Standing Committee Member of the Plastic Surgery Branch of Integrative Medicine of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; a Standing Committee Member of the Regenerative Medicine and Rehabilitation Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine; an Editorial Board Member of the Chinese Journal of Reparative and Reconstructive Surgery; and a Reviewer for Burns & Trauma, among others.
In recent years, he has successively undertaken 4 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and multiple provincial and ministerial research projects. As a project leader, he has led the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Peak Discipline—Clinical Medicine “Research-Oriented Physician” Team Project, the Shanghai “Medical New Star” Outstanding Young Medical Talent Training Program, the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Chenxing Young Scholar Award Program, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Medicine-Engineering Interdisciplinary Key Project, and a sub-project of the National Science and Technology Support Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, among others. He has been invited to participate in various domestic and international professional conferences and to give academic presentations.
He has received the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award; the First Prize of the Shanghai Science and Technology Progress Award; the Shanghai Young Science and Technology Talent Award; the Shanghai Silver Snake Award; the “Top Ten Outstanding Young Persons” of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; the Outstanding Young Physician Award of the Zhang Disheng Plastic Surgery Development Foundation; the “Shangyao Xinglin” Talent Cultivation Award of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; the Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program; Best Emerging Author of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; the Special Prize for Outstanding Paper in Academic Presentation at the 3rd Oriental Burn and Plastic Aesthetic Medicine Conference; the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Chenxing Program; the “Double Hundred Talents Program” of Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Shanghai Young Science and Technology Talent (Technology Transfer Category); the Nomination Award for Top Ten Teachers in the 2016-2017 Academic Year, Ninth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; the Young Scholar Award in Repair and Reconstruction at the 10th East China Plastic Surgery Academic Conference; and the Shanghai “Medical New Star” Outstanding Young Medical Talent, among others.
As first or corresponding author, he has published more than 27 SCI-indexed original articles in international journals such as Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, JAMA Facial Plastic Surgery, and Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, many of which were selected as “Best Paper of the Year” or cover articles. He has applied for 5 national patents, 3 of which have been granted. He is Associate Editor of Head and Facial Burn Reconstruction Surgery; Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of Trauma Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery; and a contributing author of monographs including Chinese Plastic Surgery, Surgery: Plastic Surgery Volume, and Breast Reconstruction Surgery for Breast Cancer.