Meet the medical team

Pigment diagnosis and laser treatment · picosecond and Q-switched pigment work · laser safety across skin tones

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.

Her method, and the one this site is written around, is assessment before device: what the pigment actually is comes before which technology is chosen, and a plan that cannot name the diagnosis is not yet a plan. She stages pigment work across visits, judges progress against standardised photographs rather than memory, and states the limits of a course including the cases where the honest answer is to treat nothing. Practising inside a tertiary general hospital, she has dermatology, anaesthesia and theatre care in the same building when a skin reaction needs more than an outpatient review.

Clinical focus

• Pigment diagnosis before treatment: freckles, sun spots, age spots, melasma-type pigment and post-inflammatory pigment
• Picosecond and Q-switched pigment laser work, planned as a staged series with defined review points
• Laser safety across skin tones, including darker skin and the risk of pigment change after treatment
• Fractional ablative and non-ablative resurfacing, and non-surgical tightening by energy devices
• Vascular concerns including persistent redness, visible vessels and rosacea-related redness
• Full-cycle skin management: barrier repair, skincare sequencing and device sequencing

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

Dermatology · pigment diagnosis · skin that has reacted

Dr. Yongbo Jia is a dermatologist within the Plastic Surgery & Aesthetics Medical Center at Chongqing West District Hospital. Within the team his role is the skin itself: the medical assessment that decides what a brown patch is, and the dermatological management that runs alongside or instead of a device.

Melasma-type pigment, post-inflammatory pigment and pigment that has darkened after treatment all sit with him, because they are managed with topical control and time as much as with any technology. He also sees skin that has been irritated by a device, where the next step is usually less treatment rather than more.

Clinical focus

• Pigment diagnosis and management, including melasma-type and post-inflammatory pigment
• Dermatological assessment before laser treatment, and control of skin disease in the treatment area
• Care of skin that has reacted to a device, including pigment change after treatment

Plastic surgery · surgical assessment · hospital-level care

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: the judgement of when a concern is better served by an operation than by a device, and what a face needs when an energy treatment has reached its ceiling.

His part of the decision is the one patients rarely ask for, which is whether the problem in front of them is a device problem at all. He also carries the hospital side of rare complications, where an operating theatre, anaesthesia and inpatient care are already in the same building.

Clinical focus

• Surgical assessment where an operation is the honest answer to laxity or scarring
• Tertiary-hospital support for the rare laser complication that needs theatre-level care
• Complex and multidisciplinary case review across the four-physician team

Aesthetic surgery · refinement · honest referral

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 judgement: knowing when a laser course has reached the limit of what it can change, and saying so rather than selling another series.

Some concerns are device problems and some are surgical problems. A team that practises both under one roof has no reason to keep offering pigment sessions for a problem a pigment laser cannot reach.

Clinical focus

• Aesthetic surgical assessment and refinement
• Honest referral when an operation outperforms an energy device
• Shared case planning within the four-physician team