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Bilateral globus pallidus internus deep brain stimulation: lessons from the past to move faster towards the future
- Speaker:
Antonella Macerollo
- Moderator:
Chun-Hwei Tai
- Chun-Hwei Tai
- MD, PhD
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Clinical Associate Professor, National Taiwan University
Director of Department of Neurology, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch
Attending Physician, National Taiwan University Hospital
E-mail:chtai66@gmail.com
Executive Summary:
Education:
M.D., Medical College, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan
Ph.D., Institute of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Professional history and research interest:
Dr. Chun-Hwei Tai serves as an attending physician in the Department of Neurology at NTUH since 2000.He is a neurologist with special interests in the surgical treatment of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and other movement disorders. Dr. Tai received his training on deep brain stimulation (DBS) in both NTUH and University Hospital Center (CHU) of Joseph Fourrier University, at Grenoble, France (Professor Alim-Louis Benabid). Dr. Tai also engages in basic basal ganglia researches in INSERM U318 / CNRS U5543 in France (Dr. Abedelhamid Benazzouz and Dr. Erwan Bezard) and in Taiwan (Dr. Chung-Chin Kuo). Dr. Tai developed the movement disorder surgical program with Dr. Sheng-Hong Tseng and Dr. Ruey-Meei Wu, in the Center for Parkinson and Movement disorders in NTUH. Dr. Tai is currently the clinical associate professor in neurology at National Taiwan University and also a Council member of Taiwan Movement Disorder Society