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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.

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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.

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ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2009

Steven Li-Wen Chen, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Am Medical Association
  • Assn for Acad Surg
  • Soc of Surg Oncol
  • F A Coller Surg Soc
  • Am Soc of Breast Surgeons
  • Soc of Univ Surg
  • Pacific Coast Surg Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Private practice (solo or small group)

General Surgery

8901 Activity Rd

Suite 102

San Diego, CA 92126

United States

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Breast Disease/Cancer

  • axillary dissection
  • benign breast disease
  • breast biopsy
  • breast cancer
  • breast cancer reconstruction
  • Breast Disease/Cancer
  • breast radiotherapy
  • breast ultrasound
  • core needle biopsy
  • duct excision/microdochotomy
  • ductoscopy
  • lumpectomy
  • lymph node biopsy
  • mastectomy
  • radical mastectomy
  • sentinel node

Endocrine (Gland)

  • hyperparathyroidism
  • parathyroid cancer
  • parathyroid surgery
  • thyroid nodules/cancer
  • thyroid surgery

Skin & Soft Tissue Disorders/Procedures

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

Diagnostic Imaging/procedures

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • basal cell cancer
  • biopsy of tumors
  • bone and soft tissue cancer/tumors
  • breast cancer
  • breast masses
  • breast tumors in pregnancy
  • endocrine cancer
  • melanoma
  • neck cancer/tumors
  • skin cancer
  • Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)
  • thyroid cancer/nodules

Hospital Appointments

Scripps Memorial Hospital - La Jolla

La Jolla, CA

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

11/2014—Present

Sharp Memorial Hospital

San Diego, CA

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

11/2014—Present

Palomar Medical Center

Escondido, CA

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

04/2015—Present

Pomerado Hospital

Poway, CA

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

04/2015—Present

Scripps Mercy Hospital

San Diego, CA

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

11/2015—Present

Academic Appointments

University of California, Davis, School of Medicine

Sacramento, CA

Assistant Professor

07/2007—06/2011

City of Hope National Medical Center

Associate Professor

07/2011—06/2014