A Trauma Physician's View on Life and Death : Wen-Je Ko (柯文哲) at TEDxTaipei 2013

Translated into English by Raquel Deng • Reviewed by Michelle Lo

Dr. Ko Wen-Je is the Attending Physician and Chairman of Department of Traumatology at the National Taiwan University (NTU) Hospital. He is also an Associate Professor and a senior ICU staff specializing in external trauma, critical care, and organ transplants.

Dr. Ko had completed his research fellowship at the University of Minnesota where he focused on the study of artificial liver. After completing his research abroad, Dr. Ko returned to Taiwan to lead an organ transplant team targeted at improving the success rates of heart transplants. It was then that Dr. Ko introduced the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) technique to Taiwan. Other notable contributions include establishing a standardized procedure during transplant surgeries, which has since been advocated by Taiwan's Ministry of Health and Welfare.


外科醫師，現為國立臺灣大學醫學院附設醫院創傷醫學部主任，亦是國立臺灣大學醫學院教授，專長為外傷、急救、器官移植等。曾至美國明尼蘇達大學進修，擔任外科研究員，研究人工肝臟。回國後，建立器官移植小組，以心臟移植為目標，為了增加成功率，柯文哲自美國引進葉克膜技術，也建立了標準器官移植程序，經由衛生署推行到全國，為臺大醫院史上第一位專責重症加護的醫師。


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