vascular surgery in Taiwan

I am a vascular surgeon in Taiwan. In our center, there are three sections in Department of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery: section of cardiac surgery, section of thoracic surgery and section of vascular surgery. Actually, my hospital is on of the few hospitals in Taiwan that has set up an independent section of vascular surgery. There is no department of vascular surgery in most of the hospitals in Taiwan.
In the past , there were no vascular surgeons in Taiwan. Most of the vascular procedures here in Taiwan are performed by cardiac surgeons, especially in those hospitals which does not set up an Vascular Section. Arterial bypass, venous procedures and dialysis access creation procedures had long time been a part of the training program for those cardiac surgeons. In recent years, more and more surgeons, had devoted themselves totally to the field of vascular surgery, although they had been trained as a cardiac surgeon as well.
I had been trained as a thoracic & cardiovascular surgeon. After I was promoted as an independent surgeon, I choose to be a vascular surgeon doing only vascular and endovascular works. Taiwan Society for Vascular Surgery was set up in 2005 as the first and only society devoted to vascular surgery in Taiwan. I believe that the number and the quality of vascular/endovascular procedures here will gain a big leap in the nearest future.