Li‐Ching Huang

Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University

Papers

12

Total Citations

419

H-Index

9

About

Li-Ching Huang is a surgical researcher whose work has significantly advanced the field of abdominal wall reconstruction and hernia repair, with a particular focus on comparing minimally invasive robotic-assisted techniques against traditional open surgical approaches. Drawing on large, collaborative datasets such as the Americas Hernia Society Quality Collaborative and the Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative, Huang has systematically evaluated outcomes including length of hospital stay, wound morbidity, postoperative complications, and patient quality of life across diverse hernia repair methodologies. Her most influential contribution, a 2017 study on robotic-assisted retromuscular ventral hernia repair (155 citations), demonstrated meaningful reductions in length of stay compared to open surgery, helping establish robotic approaches as a viable clinical pathway. Subsequent work extended these findings to older adult populations, high-risk patients, and complex lateral abdominal hernias, consistently illuminating where robotic surgery offers tangible patient benefits. Huang has also contributed to urology-adjacent research, investigating functional outcome interpretation using the EPIC-26 prostate cancer quality-of-life instrument. With a body of work spanning nearly a decade and accumulating over 400 citations, Huang represents a rigorous, outcomes-driven voice in modern minimally invasive surgery research.

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9
H-Index
12
Papers
419
Total Citations
35
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🏆 Most Cited Paper
Reducing Length of Stay Using a Robotic-assisted Approach for Retromuscular Ventral Hernia Repair
155 citations · 2017
📈 Most Prolific Year: 2020 (3 Papers)
🤝 Key Collaborators: 67
🏛 Institutions: Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Vanderbilt University

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