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Education

  • 2019.07-2021.06 Executive MBA (MBA) with honors, Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York City, USA; London Business School, London, UK; Hong Kong University Business School, Hong Kong SAR
  • 2008.09-2018.02 PhD, Graduate Institute of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University
  • 1993.09-2000.06 M.D., Taipei Medical University (TMU), Taipei, Taiwan

Experience

  • 2024.07- Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University
  • 2024.02- Division Director, Office of Business Development, Taipei Medical University
  • 2024.02- Deputy Dean, Office of Business Development, Taipei Medical University
  • 2023.04- Special Appointed Visiting Professor, Tohoku University Hospital, Tohoku, Japan
  • 2023.04- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member 
  • 2023.01- Staff Physician, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan
  • 2023.01- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 2023.08-2024.01 Director, Department of Business Development, Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital
  • CEO and President, founder, Silicon-Valley based venture-backed innovative medical technology company with operations in Silicon Valley, Japan, and Taiwan
  • Clinical Instructor, Dept of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Staff Physician, Div. of Gastroenterology, Dept. of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH), Taipei, Taiwan
  • Founding Deputy Director, Health Management Center, National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch
  • Leader, working group of inflammatory bowel disease and endoscopy, Digestive Endoscopy Society of Taiwan (DEST)
  • Founding Secretary General, Board Director, Taiwan Association for the Study of Intestinal Diseases (TASSID)
  • 2010.10-2011.10 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
  • 2009.09-2009.11 Visiting Research Fellow, Keio Univ Hospital, Japan
  • 2009.09 University of California Entrepreneurship Academy, UC Davis
  • 2004.06 Visiting Fellow, Nagoya Univ Hospital, Japan
  • 2003.07-2005.07 Gastroenterology Fellowship
  • 2000.08-2003.07 Internal Medicine Residency,  NTUH, Taiwan

Awards

  • 2023.04  IEEE Senior Member recognition 
  • 2019 National Innovation Award 2019, first-in-class new drug development for pain control in irritable bowel syndrome
  • 2019 Tertiary Service Medal Award, Executive Yuan, ROC
  • 2018 Distinguished Research Paper Award, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University
  • 2016 Asia-Pacific Digestive Week, Poster of Distinction, Travel Award, Kobe, Japan
  • Stanford – Taiwan Biomedical (STB) Visiting Scholar, Biodesign Program training, Stanford University, USA
  • Invited lecturer, Yang-Ming University Promotion Center for Biotech Elites Education
  • Invited lecturer, National Cheng-Kung University, Biodesign program
  • Invited lecturer, National Taiwan University, medical device quality system and entrepreneurship series
  • 2010 National Innovation Award, Taiwan
  • 2009 Japanese Society of Gastroenterology (JSGE) Research Fellowship Program Award, Keio University Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2009 Young Clinicians Program Award, WGO, BSG, UEGW

Other

PATENT

  • Devices and methods for treating acute kidney injury. US patent no. US 11,298,512. Date of patent: April 12, 2022.
  • Devices and methods for treating acute kidney injury. US patent no. US 10,441,291. Date of patent: October 15, 2019.
  • Devices and methods for treating acute kidney injury. Japan patent no. 6,669,872. Date of patent: March 2, 2020.

RESEARCH PROJECT

  • NSC grant: PI. NTD1,700,000 (2010/8-2012/7) 氣囊輔助性小腸鏡引發腸道屏障通透性缺損與細菌轉移風險之前瞻性探索性研究. Published in Journal of Physiology 2018;596(15):3411-3424. doi: 10.1113/JP275277.
  • NSC grant: co-PI. NTD1,666,000 (2014/8-2016/7) 大腸內視鏡影像之分析暨輔助導航系統之研發

ACADEMIC SOCIETY SERVICES

  •  IBD Working Group leader, Digestive Endoscopy Society of Taiwan (DEST)
  • Founding Secretary-General, Taiwan Association for the Study of Small Intestinal Diseases (TASSID)
  • Former Director of the Board, TASSID

ACADEMIC JOURNAL EDITORSHIP

  • Former Member of Editorial Board: Intestinal Inflammatory Diseases (Karger Publisher, Basel, Switzerland)

Research Interests

  • Intestinal mucosal immunity
  • Gut microbiota
  • Inflammatory bowel disease
  • Mitochondrial medicine
  • Endoscopy
  • Biomed innovation and entrepreneurship 

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