Speaker Profile

Executive Summary：
Po-Lin Chen is currently the Director of Stroke Center of Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan. Dr. Chen completed his medical training at Kaohsiung Medical College and his training in Neurology at Taichung Veterans General Hospital. He also completed the degree of Master of Science from the Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan. Dr. Chen was involved in several worldwide randomized controlled trials, including RESPECT-ESUS and THALES. His primary research interest is in clinical Neurology and autonomic function. His main publications include topics on autonomic functions in stroke subtypes, blood pressure in acute ischemic stroke, imaging parameters in predicting stroke outcomes, etc. Dr. Chen dedicates himself to stroke treatment and is currently the Director of Taiwan Stroke Society. He drafted several guidelines in stroke management in Taiwan, including thrombolytic therapy and antithrombotics. In the future, he plans to dig more into the real-world data of well-designed, prospective registries to improve stroke care.

Executive Summary：
Dr. Yih-Chih Kuo graduated from the School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, and completed her neurology residency training at National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH). She subsequently served as an attending neurologist at National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch from 2020 to 2024 and is currently an attending neurologist at National Taiwan University Hospital. She is also pursuing her PhD training at the Institute of Physiology, National Taiwan University.

Dr. Kuo’s major clinical and academic interests are movement disorders, deep brain stimulation (DBS), clinical neurophysiology, and neuromodulation. She is a member of the DBS team at NTUH and is actively involved in the evaluation and management of patients undergoing DBS, including patient selection, perioperative assessment, postoperative programming, and long-term follow-up. Her clinical work also includes transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and electrophysiological assessment of neurological disorders.

Her research focuses on the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying movement disorders and motor control, using TMS and other electrophysiological approaches to investigate cortical excitability and motor network function. Her work has included studies on task-specific tremor, interhemispheric inhibition and motor control, and other topics in clinical neurophysiology.

Dr. Kuo is also actively involved in clinical education and training in movement disorders, DBS, TMS, and clinical neurophysiology at NTUH.

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Executive Summary：
Dr. Chan Hiu Fai, Germaine graduated from the School of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. She completed her internal medicine and neurology training at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Subsequently, she finished her movement disorders fellowship at the University of Toronto, Canada, under Professor Susan Fox, Elena Moro and Tony Lang.
Since 2024, she has worked as a Consultant of the Department of Medicine of Queen Elizabeth Hospital. She is also an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong and an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor of the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was the Past President of the Hong Kong Movement Disorders Society. At present, she is the Vice President of the Hong Kong Brain Foundation. She also serves in the Executive Committee of the Asian & Oceanian Section of the International Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Society (MDS AOS). Her major interests are movement disorders and neuromodulation.

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