Geng-Long Hsu

In the early 1970s, Geng-Long Hsu was an aircraft mechanic and a university industrial management and engineering student. He graduated in 1978 but, shortly after that, transitioned to a career in medicine; he received his medical degree from the Medical College of National Taiwan University in 1985 and completed his urological residency in 1989. He concluded his schooling with a one-year research fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, which finished in 1992. That same year, Dr. Hsu won the Jean-Paul Ginestie Prize at the 5th World Meeting on Impotence conducted by the international society of impotence research in Milano, Italy, for documenting the three-dimensional architecture of the tunica albuginea in the human penis. The following year, Dr. Hsu was promoted to the first chair of the urology department at Taiwan Adventist Hospital; he held that position until 1997 and then served as vice-superintendent of Po-Jen General Hospital until 2001. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Hsu was the director of microsurgery potency reconstruction at Taipei Medical University Hospital, then moved to China Medical University in 2008 to conduct a hemodynamic study on dozens of defrosted human cadaveric penises. During this time, Dr. Hsu pursued innovative research and published prize-winning papers. In 2010, for example, Dr. Hsu's paper "Penile Veins Were the Determining Contributor For Erection: The Hemodynamic Evidence from the Study in Defrosted Human Cadavers" was awarded second prize at the 3rd World Congress on Controversies in Urology (CURy) held in Athens, Greece. On November 19, 2021, he won the Zorgniotti Newman Prize of the ISSM (The International Society of Sexual Medicine) during the 22nd World Meeting on Sexual Medicine Virtually resulting from the latest work entitled "The Penile Fibro-vascular Assembly is the last Remaining Independent Vascular Compartment to be elucidated in the Human Body." Seeking clinical application for his research, Dr. Hsu launched his private practice, Hsu's Andrology, in 2011. However, he never gave up his research: he has since made numerous medical insights into the penile tunica albuginea, the penile fibro-vascular anatomy, and erection-related physiology. These insights were inspired by and, in turn, enhanced clinical applications, including penile morphology reconstruction, penile implantation, penile vascular surgery, penile erection restoration with a factual girth enhancement, and even penile implant with an enhancement via acupunctured-assisted local anesthesia conducted on an ambulatory basis. Exemplified as the penile venous stripping later, Dr. Hsu was granted a USPTO patent on August 14, 2012. For over three decades, Dr. Hsu has conducted medical research as well as clinical surgery for reconstructing both penile morphology and erection restoration. These anatomy-based male potency reconstructive surgeries are facilitated by the use of a set of essential instruments and, though based on innovative research into the penile fibro-vascular assembly, the surgeries are not without controversy; therefore, Dr. Hsu is deeply committed to disseminating effective surgical solutions for treating impotence, with the goal and hope that the young surgeons can reproduce his methods to the benefit of their practice and their patients. He hopes advanced technology will enhance surgical instruments and methods for restoring human potency.