Moderator Profile

Executive Summary：
Dr. Chiung-Mei Chen graduated from Taipei Medical College in 1987. She received training in movement disorders in UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, from 1994 to 1995 and obtained her Ph.D. degree in Molecular Genetics, University of Glasgow, U.K., 2002. She is currently a professor and physician scientist in Department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and College of Medicine, Chang-Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. Dr. Chen’s main clinical and academic interests include Parkinson’s disease, spinocerebellar atrophy, Huntington’s disease, other movement disorders, neurogenetics, and neuroinflammatory diseases. She has already published more than 150 papers in SCI and several in renowned journals. Her main research is focusing on the pathogenesis, biomarkers, and therapeutics in polyglutamine diseases, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer's disease and also on neuroinflammation in neurological diseases. She is now the president of Society of Neurological Rare Disorders, Taiwan.