Keynote Speaker
Name: Richard M. Frankel Ph.D.
Institution: Indiana University School of Medicine
Title: Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics
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Richard M. Frankel is Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Director of the Mary Margaret Walther Center for Palliative Care at the Simon Cancer Center. He is also the Associate Director of the VA Center of Excellence in Implementing Evidence Based Practice at the Richard L. Roudebush Veterans Administration Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana.
Rich is trained as a qualitative health services researcher whose interests include: face-to-face communication and its effects on quality, safety and outcomes of care, and more recently, using approaches from the positive social sciences to change the culture of academic health sciences centers. He is the co-developer of the Four Habits of Highly Effective Clinicians which has been used to train more than 15,000 physicians in North America and Europe. He is currently leading a research team that is analyzing close to 5,000 narratives of third year medical students’ meaningful professional experiences and has written extensively about the professional culture of medical schools.
A medical educator for the past 35 years, Rich was the co-program director of the internal medicine residency program at Highland Hospital/University of Rochester. He also served as the Vice President for Research at the Fetzer Institute, a mind, body, spirit foundation in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is currently the statewide director of the IU School of Medicine’s professionalism competency.He has published more than 200 research papers in the area of physician-patient communication and the use of positive psychology to bring about organizational change and is also the co-editor, with Tom Inui, of a recently published five book series entitled Context, Culture and Quality in Health Sciences, Research, Education, Leadership and Patient Care published by Radcliffe Publishers.
Speakers
Name: Chi-Cheng Huang, MD, FACP
Institution: Lahey Hospital – Lahey Health System,
Affiliated with Tufts School of Medicine
Title: Associate Chief Medical Officer and Chairperson of
Department of Hospital Medicine
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Dr. Chi Huang has spent the last fifteen years advocating for marginalized and impoverished children in developing countries. He graduated magna cum laude from TexasA&MUniversity in 1993, and he earned his medical degree at HarvardMedicalSchool, cum laude in 1998. Dr. Huang completed his residency training at the Harvard Combained Internal Medicine/Pediatric Program in 2002.
He founded the Bolivian Street Children Project in 1997 which became a nonprofit organization, Kaya Children International, in 2003. Kaya Children International currently runs three homes, a community-based prevention program along with education and clinical services. When Invisible Children Sing authored by Dr. Huang and Irwin Tang tells the story of street children in Bolivia, was published by Tyndale in 2006 receiving recognition from Publisher Weekly. The book has been published in English, Mandarin, Korean and German.
He is currently Associate Chief Medical Officer of LaheyHospital and the Chairperson of the Department of Hospital Medicine at LaheyClinicMedicalCenter associated with Tufts School of Medicine. In addition he serves as vice chairman of the Early Education and Care Massachusetts State Board.
Dr. Huang lives in the Boston area with his wife, Kristin, and their three daughters. He is a member of High Rock church in Arlington, MA and enjoys playing tennis, spending time with his family, and watching sports on television in his free time.
Name: Huiju Carrie Chen, MD, MSEd
Institution: University of California San Francisco
Title: Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
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H. Carrie Chen is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF)where she is a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators and holds the Abraham Rudolph Endowed Chair in Pediatric Education. In addition to directing the Pediatric Core Clerkship, she is Director of the Health Professions Education Pathway, which prepares health professionals for careers in Education, and Chair of the Board of Directors for the Pathways to Discovery Program.
Dr. Chen was born in PingTung, Taiwan and immigrated to the United States at the age of six. After obtaining her M.D. degree from UCSF, she completed her residency and chief residency in Pediatrics also at UCSF. She joined the faculty there in 2000 and two years later, received her masterofscience degree in education from the University of Southern California. Over the years, she has participated in multiple curricular innovations and served in a variety of educational leadership roles with particular focus on curriculum design, implementation, and evaluation, as well as learner assessment.
Name: C. Jason Wang, MD, PhD
Institution: Stanford University
Title: Associate Professor of Pediatrics;
Co-Director, Center for Policy, Outcomes, and Prevention
and Academic Pediatric Fellowship,
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C. Jason Wang, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at StanfordUniversity. He received his B.S. from MIT, M.D. from Harvard, and Ph.D. in policy analysis from RAND. After completing his pediatric residency training at UCSF, he worked in Greater China with McKinsey and Company, during which time he performed multiple studies in the Asian healthcare market. In 2000, he was recruited to serve as the project manager for the Taskforce on Reforming Taiwan's National Health Insurance System. His fellowship training in health services research included the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and the National Research Service Award Fellowship at UCLA. His research interests include: 1) developing tools for assessing and improving the quality of healthcare; 2) studying competency-based medical education curriculum, 3) facilitating the use of healthcare information technology in improving quality of care, and 4) healthcare reform.
Among his accomplishments, he was selected as the student speaker for Harvard Medical School Commencement (1996). He received the Overseas Chinese Outstanding Achievement Medal (1996), the Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholars Career Development Award (2007), the CIMIT Young Clinician Research Award for Transformative Innovation in Healthcare Research (2010), and the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (2011). He was recently named a “Viewpoints” editor and a regular contributor for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). He served as an external reviewer for the 2011 IOM Report “Child and Adolescent Health and Health Care Quality: Measuring What Matters” and as a reviewer for AHRQ study sections.
Dr. Wang has written two bestselling popular books published in Taiwan, and co-authored an English book “Analysis of Healthcare Interventions that Change Patient Trajectories”. His essay, "Time is Ripe for Increased U.S.-China Cooperation in Health," was selected as the first-place American essay in the 2003 A. Doak Barnett Memorial Essay Contest sponsored by the National Committee on United States-China Relations. He is a co-founder of MedicusTek, Inc., a medical solutions company based in Taiwan.
Name：Ruey-Shyang Soong MD
Institution：Department of General Surgery Chang Gung
Memorial Hospital Keelung
Department of Pathology
Johns Hopkins Medical Institution
Title：Staff surgeon/Post-doctor fellow
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Taipei Medical University, school of Medicine1993~2000
Surgical resident, Department of Surgery,2001~2008
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Diploma of tropical medicine and hygiene 2003~2004
Liverpool Tropical medical School, UK
Medicins Sans Frontieres mission in Liberia 2004~2005
Attending doctor, Department of general surgery, 2008.7- until now
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Mecicins Sans Frontieres surgical mission in Yemen 2009
Post-doctor research Fellow , Department of Pathology, 2011~until now
Johns Hopkins University
Name: Ming-Jung Ho, MD, D.Phil.
Institution:Department of Social Medicine,National Taiwan
University College of Medicine
Title: Professor
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Dr. Ming-Jung Ho is Professor of Department of Social Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine. She earned a BA in biological anthropology from Harvard University, an M.D. from University of Pennsylvania, and an M.Phil. in Ethnology and Museum Ethnography from University of Oxford, where she received a D.Phil. in Social Anthropology. She has taught in Chang Gung University and National Yang Ming University before joining National Taiwan University where she has won several teaching awards.
Dr. Ho’s teaching and academic interest lies in the application of anthropology on medical education. She has published articles in Academic Medicine, Medical Education, Medical Teacher, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, and Social Science & Medicine. Her research projects on the theme of cultural competency and professionalism have won prestigious research awards from Taiwan Association of Medical Education and National Science Council, Taiwan. Dr. Ho is also recognized for her organization of national faculty development workshops to promote humanism in medicine.
Name: Yi-Chun Lo, MD
Institution: Taiwan Centers for Disease Control
Title: Director and Medical Officer, Office of Preventive
Medicine
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Yi-Chun Lo, MD, received his medical degree from the National Taiwan University College of Medicine in 2001 and served as a medical volunteer at Taiwan Medical Mission to Malawi for two years. Awarded Best Resident three years in a row and Best Chief Resident in 2007, he completed his medical residency and infectious disease fellowship at the NationalTaiwanUniversityHospital. After joining Taiwan CDC in 2009, he was selected by US CDC to serve as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer in Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services during July 2009–June 2011.
During his service at Taiwan and US CDC, Dr. Lo led various investigations including a trichinosis outbreak associated with eating raw soft-shelled turtles in Taiwan, paragonimiasis associated with eating raw crayfish in Missouri, acute childhood lead poisoning outbreak associated with gold ore processing in northern Nigeria, and necrotizing cutaneous mucormycosis after a tornado in Joplin MO. Dr. Lo also led the investigation of the first imported H7N9 influenza case in Taiwan. Dr. Lo had first-authored or co-authored publications on top-ranked journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Environmental Health Perspectives, Emerging Infectious Diseases,and Eurosurveillance. Dr. Lo enjoys reading historical fictions, traveling, and writing essays on HIV or sexually transmitted diseases on his popular blog “HeartValley”.