Areas of Expertise

Zhao Tianlan, Chief Physician, Department of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, specializes in cosmetic surgery, minimally invasive breast augmentation, suspension, etc.

Biography

Zhao Tianlan, Chief Physician, is affiliated with the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University. She has been engaged in plastic and reconstructive surgery for 26 years, with a solid theoretical foundation and extensive clinical experience. She has published more than 50 high-quality academic papers, over 20 of which have been published in national core journals, including 2 SCI-indexed papers and 1 EI-indexed paper. She has received 2 second prizes, 3 third prizes, and 2 fourth prizes for provincial scientific and technological achievements, as well as 1 first prize for municipal scientific and technological progress. She has led and participated in 1 provincial “Tenth Five-Year Plan” key research project, led 2 projects of the Provincial Department of Education, 1 key scientific research project of the Provincial Department of Health, and 1 Suzhou Municipal Science and Technology Development Project.

She specializes in various plastic and aesthetic surgeries, including scar revision, treatment of congenital malformations, repair of tissue defects, and surgical treatment of skin tumors. She has distinctive techniques and expertise in various aesthetic surgical procedures in particular. Her specialties include innovative applications of narrow-pedicle flaps in tissue defect repair; pedicled eyelid flaps for full-thickness eyelid defect repair; pudendal-thigh flaps for vaginal reconstruction in vaginal agenesis; auricular reconstruction by tissue expansion for microtia without retroauricular skin grafting; nasal reconstruction with a facial artery-based mandibular marginal flap; minimally invasive breast augmentation and correction of breast ptosis; breast reduction; mastopexy; minimally invasive vaginal tightening; minimally invasive aesthetic correction of gynecomastia; and minimally invasive radical treatment of axillary osmidrosis.