Meet the Light Treatment Team

Skin & laser aesthetics · matching a light source to a target · pigment risk in darker skin

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.

The judgement Dr. He applies on this subject is made before any device is named. She asks the patient to point at what bothers them, because a fingertip and a swept hand describe two different problems and lead to two different kinds of light source. She then examines the whole area rather than the complaint alone: skin tone and how it has behaved after previous injury or treatment, sun exposure in the preceding weeks, medicines that make skin react more strongly to light, and a history of cold sores. Where skin carries more pigment she treats a small test area and judges the response before committing a larger area, and she will decline treatment altogether when the finding is a lesion that has changed, because that is a diagnosis question rather than a light question. She regards a course that is stopped early because the target has already changed enough as a plan that worked.

Clinical focus

• Reading a skin complaint as one target or a diffuse area before a source is chosen
• Broadband courses for scattered sun damage and background redness, and their maintenance rhythm
• Single-wavelength treatment of defined lesions and vessels, and the downtime it carries
• Pigment-risk assessment in darker skin tones, and the test area before a full treatment
• When to decline light treatment: a changing lesion, an active infection, recent sun

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

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

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

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