Professor Chao-Long Chen is a pioneer liver transplant surgeon who performed the first successful liver transplantation in Asia in 1984, and by 2026, has accomplished 2600 more. In 1994, he performed the first LDLT in Taiwan and was bestowed with the National Award for Outstanding Contribution in Science and Technology in 1995. He did the first split liver transplantation in Asia in 1997 and pioneered routine microsurgical biliary reconstruction in the world in 2006. He was bestowed the Distinguished Service Award of the International Liver Transplantation Society in 2019, the Lifetime Achievement Award of Taiwan Surgical Association in 2024, the Living Legend of Asian-Pacific Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association in 2025 and is among the World's Top 2% Scientists (1960-) published by Stanford University in six consecutive years since 2020.

He was Superintendent of the Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital from 2003 and became Superintendent Emeritus since 2016. He has published more than 600 SCI-cited scientific articles, lectured in more than 600 international and overseas congresses, and has trained more than 400 fellows and observers from all across the world. He serves as associate editor of the American Journal of Transplantation and editorial board of Annals of Surgery among other high ranking scientific journals. He was elected as Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2007 and as President of the International LDLT Group in 2020-21. He remains director of one of the leading global centers in LDLT.