Ying-Fu Chen
Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
Dr.
Ying-Fu Chen is a Professor of Surgery, and Graduate Institute of Medicine,
Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He has a MD
degree from Kaohsiung Medical College, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1973, and his PhD
degree from Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, in
1992. In 1983, Dr Chen was as a clinical fellow at the
Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women Medical University. In 1985, he went to
Durham, North Carolina, as a research fellow at Duke University Medical Center.
In 1992, Dr Chen was appointed as Professor of Surgery
at Kaohsiung Medical University. He is also appointed as a Professor of Graduate
Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University. His main research interests
include inflammation, endothelial biology, vascular
degeneration, and stem cells in basic studies and thoracic aorta
aneurysms/dissections and valvular heart diseases in clinical fields. He has
authored over 80 peer-reviewed medical publications and has served as
editorships of 2 books, authorships of many book chapters.
