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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2003

Mathew Chung, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Surg Oncol
  • Midwest Surg Assn
  • Pacific Coast Surg Assn
  • Western Surg Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

General Surgery Residency, 100 Michigan NE

A601

MC188

Grand Rapids, MI 49503

United States

Contact Information

Biography

All areas of surgical oncology practice, with special interest/expertise in foregut surgery including surgery of the esophagus, hepatopancreatobiliary system, stomach and other gastrointestinal tract cancers, utilizing minimally invasive (laparoscopic) procedures whenever possible. Also with significant interest/experience in laparoscopic adrenal and other endocrine surgeries. Other unusual tumors such as metastatic carcinoid, GIST tumors are managed, in addition to intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy for pseudomyxoma peritonei.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Breast Disease/Cancer

  • axillary dissection
  • benign breast disease
  • breast biopsy
  • breast cancer
  • breast radiotherapy
  • breast ultrasound
  • core needle biopsy
  • lumpectomy
  • lymph node biopsy
  • mastectomy
  • radical mastectomy
  • sentinel node

Endocrine (Gland)

  • adrenal cancers/tumors
  • adrenal surgery
  • hyperparathyroidism
  • pancreatic endocrine tumors
  • parathyroid cancer
  • parathyroid surgery
  • pheochromocytoma
  • thyroid nodules/cancer
  • thyroid surgery

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • adhesion removal
  • anti-reflux procedures
  • appendectomy
  • esophagus perforation
  • feeding tubes
  • fundoplication
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • gastric cancer
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • malrotation
  • peptic ulcer disease
  • peritonitis
  • splenectomy

Gynecology Disorders/Procedures

  • hysterectomy

Hand, Wrist, Arm Disorders/Procedures

Head and Neck

  • bronchoscopy
  • parathyroid surgery
  • thyroid surgery
  • Zenker's diverticulum

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • bile duct malignancies
  • bile duct surgery
  • biliary tract disease
  • cholecystectomy
  • gallbladder cancer
  • gallstone disease
  • hepatic artery infusion pumps
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • liver biopsy
  • liver surgery
  • liver/hepatic disease
  • pancreatic cancer
  • pancreatic cysts
  • pancreatitis

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • component separation
  • epigastric hernia
  • femoral hernia
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • paraesophageal hernia
  • umbilical hernia
  • ventral hernia

Minimal Access Surgery

Skin & Soft Tissue Disorders/Procedures

  • cellulitis
  • component separation
  • epidermal cyst
  • skin and soft tissue infections
  • skin biopsy
  • skin gland tumors
  • skin grafting
  • tissue flaps
  • wound infections

Colon and Rectal Disorders/Cancer

  • anal cancer
  • biopsy of tumors
  • colectomy
  • colon surgery
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • colonic polyps
  • colostomy
  • Crohn's disease
  • diverticular disease
  • gastrointestinal bleeding
  • gastrointestinal cancer
  • ileostomy
  • intestinal failure management
  • intussusception
  • laparoscopic colon surgery
  • Meckel's diverticulum
  • small bowel syndrome
  • stomach cancer
  • ulcerative colitis

Diagnostic Imaging/procedures

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • cryotherapy
  • doppler ultrasound
  • fine needle aspiration/biopsy
  • laparoscopic surgery
  • tumor ablation

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • adrenal tumors
  • anal cancer/tumors
  • basal cell cancer
  • biopsy of tumors
  • bone and soft tissue cancer/tumors
  • bone metastases
  • breast cancer
  • breast masses
  • breast tumors in pregnancy
  • chest tumors
  • colon cancer screening
  • colon cancer/polyps
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • endocrine cancer
  • esophagus cancer/tumors
  • gastrointestinal cancer/tumors
  • gynecology cancer/tumors
  • melanoma
  • neck cancer/tumors
  • neurofibromatosis
  • osteosarcoma
  • pancreatic cancer/tumors
  • pelvic tumors
  • skin cancer
  • stomach cancer/tumors
  • thyroid cancer/nodules

Thoracic

  • achalasia
  • Barrett's esophagus
  • esophageal surgery
  • hiatal hernia
  • myotomy
  • pleural effusion
  • pneumothorax

Hospital Appointments

Spectrum Health, Grand Rapids, MI

St. Mary's Health

Metro Health.

Academic Appointments

Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, MI.

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