Hwang Chang-hwan 황창환

Clinical focus

• Neck: disc herniation, forward head posture, ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament
• Lower back: disc herniation, spinal stenosis, spondylolisthesis, compression fractures
• Ankle arthroscopy and arthroscopic ligament repair
• Upper and lower limb trauma and fractures
• Minimally invasive biportal endoscopic spine surgery
• Minimally invasive microscopic surgery, spinal fusion, balloon decompression
• Non-surgical spine procedures (C-arm guided injections)

Career

• Clinical Adjunct Professor, Dankook University Hospital
• Former Fellow, Regional Trauma Center, Dankook University Hospital
• Member, Eurospine
• Member, North American Spine Society (NASS)
• Medical adviser, EBS 'Sharing 0700'
• Former Head of Orthopedics, Asan Chungmu Hospital
• Former Head of Orthopedics, Seosan Jungang Hospital

Memberships

International training & courses

• Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery study group cadaver workshop, Korean Society of Spine Surgery (2023)
• Robotic joint replacement workshop (2024)
• Trigger point injection (TPI) course, Korean Orthopaedic Pain Society (2017)
• AO Trauma course (2014)
• 14th PASMISS, Hualien, Taiwan (2014)
• 15th PASMISS, Daejeon, Korea (2015)
• Stryker spine cadaveric workshop (2015)
• 27th Korean-Japanese Combined Orthopaedic Symposium (2017)
• 25th Severance Arthroscopy Symposium: Knee, approved by ISAKOS & AAC (2017)
• 28th Severance Arthroscopy Symposium: Shoulder & Elbow, approved by ISAKOS & AAC (2018)

Selected SCI(E) publications

• Paraspinal muscle changes of unilateral multilevel minimally invasive transforaminal interbody fusion. J Orthop Surg Res. 2014
• Restoration of the central slip in congenital boutonniere deformity: case report. J Hand Surg Am. 2014
• Giant cell tumor of the tendon sheath in the knee of a 7-year-old girl. Eur Orthop Traumatol. 2014
• Severe open ankle sprain: a case report. J Trauma Inj. 2014
• Baker's cyst filled with hematoma at the lower calf. Knee Surg Relat Res. 2014
• Deformity correction by femoral supracondylar dome osteotomy with retrograde intramedullary nailing after pathologic fracture of giant cell tumor. Knee Surg Relat Res. 2013
• Influence of oral and intravenous bisphosphonate in surgically treated osteoporotic distal radius fracture. Osteoporosis. 2013
• Influence of posterior tibial slope on stability and second-look arthroscopic findings after ACL reconstruction. J Korean Orthop Assoc. 2013