Curriculum Vitae
Yen-Yuan Chen
E-mail chenyenyuan@ntu.edu.twAddress Department of Social Medicine
National Taiwan University College of Medicine No. 1, Rd. Ren-Ai sec. 1
Chung-Cheng District, 100, Taipei Taiwan
Telephone 886-2-23123456 ext 88744
CURRENT POSITION Assistant Professor
Department of Social Medicine
National Taiwan University College of Medicine Taipei, Taiwan
Attending Physician
Department of Medical Education National Taiwan University Hospital Taipei, Taiwan
Aug 2010 ~
Nov, 2010 ~
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.
Aug 2004 ~ Sep 2008
Master of Public Health (M.P.H.)
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.
Jul 2003 ~ May 2004
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)
National Taiwan University College of Medicine Taipei, Taiwan
Sep 1991 ~ Jun 1998
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
1. Yen-Chang Chen, Yen-Yuan Chen. A moderate zero line approach: opposing thresholds beyond the zero line. American Journal of Bioethics. (Accetped)
of Diabetes Shared-Care Program on patients with poorly controlled type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. Taiwan Journal of Family Medicine. (Accepted)
3. Hsin-Yang Huang, Yen-Yuan Chen, Yi-Xun Jiang, Kai-Kuen Leung. Diagnosis, therapy, and ethical issues in relation to multidrug resistant Neisseria Gonorrhoeae. Taiwan Journal of Family Medicine. (Accepted)
4. Yen-Yuan Chen. To nurture humanities of healthcare workers by activities of experiencing and learning. Journalof Healthcare Quality 2010 May; 4(3): 99-101.
5. Yen-Yuan Chen, Stuart J. Youngner. “Allow natural death” is not equivalent to “do not resuscitate”: a response. J Med Ethics 2008 Dec; 34(12): 887-8. (SCI and SSCI, Impact Factor = 1.206, 8/34, citation = 2)
6. Yen-Yuan Chen, Yen-Chang Chen. Evaluating ethics consultation: randomized controlled trial is not the right tool. J Med Ethics 2008 Aug; 34(8): 594-597. (SCI and SSCI, Impact Factor = 1.206, 8/34)
7. Yen-Yuan Chen, Alfred F. Connors Jr., Allan Garland. Effect of decisions to withhold life support on prolonged survival. Chest 2008 Jun; 133(6): 1312-1318. Epub 2008 Jan 15. (SCI, Impact Factor = 6.363, 3/43, citation = 6)
8. Yen-Yuan Chen, Ching-Yu Chen, Kai-Kuen Leung. Acute pancreatitis and amiodarone: A case report.
World J Gastroenterol 2007;13(6): 975-977. (SCI, Impact Factor = 2.092, 33/65, citation = 1)
9. Yen-Yuan Chen, Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai. Ethics consultation in Taiwan: what do we need in the future?
Formosan Journal of Medicine 2007;11(4):431-437.
10. Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, Hsien-Liang Huang, Yen-Yuan Chen. The ethical issues arising from patient’s requesting complementary and alternative medicine. Formosan Journal of Medicine
2007;11(1):91-103.
11. Yen-Yuan Chen, Daniel Fu-Chang Tsai, Ching-Yu Chen. Ethics in the practice of complementary and alternative medicine. Medicine Today Monthly 2004;31(7):574-578.
PEER-REVIEWED PRESENTATIONS IN CONFERENCES
1. Yen-Yuan Chen. The Practice of Clinical Ethics Consultation in Taiwan: The Experiences of an Individual Ethics Consultant. 10th World Congress of Bioethics, Singapore, July 28-31, 2010. (Oral presentation)
2. Yen-Yuan Chen. Does Western Ethics Consultation Work in East Asia? 6th International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation. Oregon, Portland, U.S.A. May 11-14, 2010. (Oral presentation) 3. Yen-Yuan Chen. The Approach to Clinical Ethics Consultation in East Asia: the Take-Home Message
for Bioethics Educators. UNESCO Chair in Bioethics International Conference on Bioethics Education: Contents, Methods, Trends, Zefat, Israel, May 2-5, 2010. (Oral presentation) 4. Hsin-Yang Huang, Mei-Shu Lai, Yen-Yuan Chen. To Evaluate the Effectiveness of Diabetes
41st Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec 3-6, 2009. (Oral presentation)
5. Yen-Yuan Chen, Liarng-Zung Lai, Shih-Chieh Chang, Hui-Yu Tseng, Yu-Chun Tsai. The Influence of Diabetes Shared-Care Program on Patients with Poorly Controlled Diabetes Mellitus. 41st
Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, Dec 3-6, 2009. (Poster presentation)
6. Yen-Yuan Chen. Difference in satisfaction: a reflection of different goals of ethics consultation among different moral stakeholders. International Conference on Bioethics Committees in Hospitals. Zefat, Israel, May 17-20, 2009. (Oral presentation)
7. Yen-Yuan Chen, Stuart J. Youngner. The influence of two Do-Not-Resuscitate protocols on care provided to patients in a medical intensive care unit. 10th American Society for Bioethics and Humanities Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., October 23-26, 2008. (Oral presentation) 8. Yen-Yuan Chen. Doing Bioethics: Empirical research or philosophical inquiry? 9th
World Congress of Bioethics, Rijeka-Opatija, Croatia, September 3-8, 2008. (Oral presentation)
9. Yen-Yuan Chen, Yen-Chang Chen. Ethical issues related to Do-Not-Resuscitate policy In Taiwan. 9th World Congress of Bioethics, Rijeka-Opatija, Croatia, September 3-8, 2008. (Poster presentation) 10. Yen-Chang Chen, Yen-Yuan Chen. Crimes and genetics: Can public screening for violent genes be
ethically justified? World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) World Conference, Singapore, July 24-27, 2007. (Poster presentation)
11. Yen-Yuan Chen, Alfred F. Connors Jr., Allan Garland. The influence of withholding life support on the long-term survival of ICU patients. World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) World Conference, Singapore, July 24-27, 2007. (Oral presentation)
12. Yen-Yuan Chen, Yen-Chang Chen, Fei-Ran Guo, Chon-Jong Wen, Kai-Kuen Leung. The influence of comorbidity on outcomes of patients with acute cholangitis. World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) World Conference, Singapore, July 24-27, 2007. (Poster presentation)
13. Yen-Yuan Chen. Evaluating ethics consultation: Does the design of randomized controlled trials work? Joint Ethics Conference (18th Canadian Bioethics Society Conference & 3rd International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation), Toronto, Canada, May 30-June 3, 2007. (Oral presentation)
14. Yen-Yuan Chen. Empirical bioethics and empirical bioethicist. Joint Ethics Conference 18th Canadian Bioethics Society Conference & 3rd International Conference on Clinical Ethics and Consultation), Toronto, Canada, May 30-June 3, 2007. (Postcard exhibit)
INVITED INTERNATIONAL SPEECH
1. Yen-Yuan Chen. How Can Ethics Consultation Contribute to Medical Ethics Education? The 3rd Asian Roundtable on Medical Ethics Education (Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Medical Philosophy & Ethics), Tokyo, Japan, January 10-11, 2010. (Oral presentation)
INVITED DOMESTIC SPEECH
TO BE A SESSION CHAIR IN AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
1. Session 10, Cultural and Religious Diversity I, 9:00AM-10:30AM, May 4, 2010. UNESCO Chair in Bioethics International Conference on Bioethics Education: Contents, Methods, Trends, Zefat, Israel, May 2-5, 2010.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION 1. Ethics in relation to intensive care 2. Clinical ethics consultation
3. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and do-not-resuscitate orders 4. End-of-life decision-making
5. Public health ethics 6. Hospice and palliative care 7. Family medicine
AREAS OF COMPETENCE 1. Bioethics
2. Empirical research
AWARDS
Excellent Course on General Knowledge (Medicine and Humanities) National Taiwan University
Ministry of Education, Executive Yuan
2010
The Finalists of The Mark S. Ehrenreich Prize in Healthcare Ethics Research 9th World Congress of Bioethics
Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics, University of Southern California
2008
Endowment Sponsored Mentorship Program Award School of Graduate Study, Case Western Reserve University
2007
Pass with Honors, Comprehensive Exam
Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
2006
Full Scholarship and Waiver of Tuition
Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University
2004 ~ 2008
Ministry of Education Scholarship for Bioethics Ministry of Education, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
Ministry of Education Scholarship for Bioethics Ministry of Education, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
2001
Presidential Award
Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
1996
CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURES
1. Board of Hospice and Palliative Care Medicine, Taiwan, No. 322 (2005). 2. Board of Family Medicine, Taiwan, No. 0004491 (2004).
3. Medical License, Taiwan, No. 029824 (1998).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, Taiwan Unit Executive Secretary and Committee Member
Oct 2008 ~
Center for Ethics, Law and Society in Biomedicine and Technology National Taiwan University
Executive Secretary and Committee Member
Oct 2008 ~
Journal of Medical Ethics Manuscript Reviewer
Jan 2009 ~
Taiwan Journal of Hospice Palliative Care Executive Secretary
Jan 2010 ~
Hospital Ethics Committee at St. Joseph Hospital Committee Member
Jan 2009 ~
Hospital Ethics Committee at Cardinal Tien Hospital Yung Ho Branch Committee Member
Sep 2010 ~
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
1. American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine: Since 2005 2. American Society for Bioethics and Humanities: Since 2004
3. The Obesity Academy of Taiwan: Since 2003 4. The Geriatrics Academy of Taiwan: Since 2003
5. Taiwan Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine: Since 2003 6. The Taiwan Association of Family Medicine: Since 2002