Moderator Profile

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

Executive Summary：
Dr. Sheg-Huang Lin is an Associate Professor at the School of Medicine at Tzu Chi University, Taiwan. He is also the Deputy Director of the Neuro-Medical Scientific Center at Buddhist Tzu-Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan. For more than two decades as a neurologist, he dedicated himself to patient care, especially Parkinson's disease, movement disorders, deep brain stimulation and clinical neurophysiology. His research focuses on deep brain stimulation animal models with different targets, stimulation patterns and diseases. His research also applied mobile devices to detect patient activity, blood pressure, and sleep to assess PD patients' motor and non-motor symptoms and the effects of interventions. He published more than 40 peer-review articles in scientific journals/book chapters. These have made him a recognized specialist in movement disorders and neuromodulation.

Executive Summary：
Dr. Chiung Chu CHEN is the associate Professor in the department of Neurology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (CGMH), Linko and department of Medicine in Chang Gung University. She is a movement disorders specialist and neurophysiologist and the Director of Movement Disorders Section in CGMH.
In 1998, she was involved with the setting up of the first DBS therapy center in Taiwan, a center she continued to lead now. Dr. Chen worked with Prof. Alim-Louis BENABID in Grenoble, France in 2004 and completed her PhD training under the supervision of Prof. Peter BROWN in Institute of Neurology, London, UK in 2008. She has used her training in movement disorders, deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy and local field (LFPs) recording in patients with movement disorders to develop a unique translational program in basal ganglia electrophysiology and neuromodulation therapy in patients with movement disorders. Dr. Chen is leading interdisciplinary team including neurologists, IC design engineers and data scientist in CGMH, where they developed intraoperative and perioperative LFPs recording to help DBS targeting and post-operative programming to improve the efficacy of neuromodulation therapy for patients with movement disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, dystonia and tremor.
The final aim of her team is to investigate how the deranged basal ganglia neuronal activities contributing to movement and other neurological disorders in patients and identify the breakthrough in technology and neuromodulation therapy.