Areas of Expertise

Xiao Caiwen works in the Department of Ophthalmology at Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital and specializes in ocular plastic surgery, lacrimal duct surgery, minimally invasive endoscopic surgery, etc.

Biography

Xiao Caiwen, Chief Physician, Associate Professor, and Master's Degree Supervisor, graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2009 and obtained a Doctor of Medicine degree. She studied under the renowned Academician Fan Xianqun. She has successively served as a visiting scholar at Stanford University, the Shiley Eye Center at the University of California, and the Jules Stein Eye Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles; she has also visited major well-known hospitals multiple times to study minimally invasive surgery under renowned domestic endoscopy experts.

Clinical Focus: Ocular microplastic surgery, minimally invasive lacrimal duct surgery, and functional recovery after optic nerve injury. In ocular plastic surgery, she particularly focuses on minimally invasive rejuvenation surgery for middle-aged individuals. The prominent feature of lacrimal duct surgery is the use of endoscopic minimally invasive techniques to treat various obstructive lacrimal duct diseases, with simultaneous comprehensive repair of medial canthal deformities and lacrimal duct trauma. Endoscopic minimally invasive surgeries mainly include endoscope-assisted hidden-incision repair of orbital fractures, transnasal removal of orbital tumors, optic canal decompression, and optic nerve sheath fenestration decompression.

Awards and Honors
As a major contributor, she has won the Second Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the First Prize of the Shanghai Medical Science and Technology Award, and the Second Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award from the Ministry of Education. As the first contributor, she won the First Prize of the Hebei Provincial Excellent Medical Science and Technology Award.

Research Achievements
As project leader, she has presided over 9 research projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Shanghai Municipal Science and Technology Commission.
She has published 27 academic papers, 12 of which are indexed by SCI, participated in the compilation of 5 academic monographs, and completed 1 academic work as chief editor.