Moderator Profile

Executive Summary：
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.

Executive Summary：
Dr. Tseng is currently an associate professor at the Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences in National Taiwan University. He graduated from the Department of Medicine in National Taiwan University, and received his neurology training at the Department of Neurology in National Taiwan University Hospital. He finished his PhD program about pain research at Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine in National Taiwan University, and then performed his post-doc research at the Functional MRI center in University of oxford, UK. By using neuroimaging tools such as functional MRI in combination with experimental psychology and neurophysiological recording, his research focuses on understanding how humans process, percept, and respond to information related to pain. In addition, his lab also investigates the neural mechanism of pain-related human behaviors, such as memory, reinforcement learning, and empathy. His work aims to enhance understanding about cognitive neuroscience in both healthy population and neuropsychiatric disorders.