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- Yih-Ru Wu
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Director of Department of Neurology,, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital , Linkou Medical Center
Professor , Chang Gung University, Collage of Medicine, Taiwan
Chair Elect of MDS-AOS ,
E-mail:yihruwu@cgmh.org.tw
Executive Summary:
Dr Wu was trained in the department of Neurology at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, LinKou Medical Center from 1990-1994 and became an attending physician since 1994. She then undertook one-year research fellowship training in Movement Disorders Center at Toronto Western Hospital from 1998-1999. Her research interests include genetics of Parkinson's diseases (PD) and other movement disorders as well as non-motor symptoms and clinical research of PD. She has published more than 230 related peer-reviewed, Science Citation Index papers and has been a reviewer of more than 50 SCI Journals. Currently she is on the editorial board of npj Parkinson's Disease and is an associate editor of Frontiers in Neurology. Dr. Wu was the president of Taiwan Movement Disorder Society from 2015 to 2017 and she has served on education committee of AOS-MDS from 2011 to 2015, executive committee of AOS-MDS from 2015 to 2019, web editor committee of MDS from 2015 to 2019, education committee member of MDS, education committee member and publication member of World Federation of Neurology as well as Secretary Elect of MDS-AOS from 2019 to 2023. Currently, she is the professor at the Chang Gung University College of Medicine and the deputy Director of Department of Neurology at Change Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Branch.
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Dr. Ying-Fa Chen is currently the attending physician and director of Center for Parkinson Disease, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Secretary-General of Taiwan Movement Disorder Society. He completed his residency training in Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. His clinical interests focus on the treatment for movement disorders including echo-guided botulinum toxin injection for dystonia and deep brain stimulation. He started to do deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease and movement disorders since 2008. He is also interested in the development of application for Parkinson’s disease in order to facilitate patient-physician communication.