Yee-Chun Chen, MD, PhD

Taiwan
Professor of medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
Yee-Chun Chen is a professor of medicine at the National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine in Taipei, Taiwan. She is also an investigator of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes of Taiwan. Professor Chen also serves as vice president of the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM).
Professor Chen started her clinical service professionally in 1992 at the National Taiwan University Hospital, and currently serves as a professorial lecturer in infectious diseases, infection control and travel medicine at the National Taiwan University College of Medicine.
One of Taiwan’s leaders in medical mycology and infection control, Professor Chen’s research focus includes clinical and molecular epidemiology of invasive fungal diseases, surveillance of healthcare-associated infection and informatics, the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for invasive fungal infections, and pathogenesis of Candida infections. Professor Chen has received several achievement awards (including the Asia Pacific Hand Hygiene Excellence Award in 2011), and has authored and co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles published in prestigious journals, including the Clinical Infectious Diseases, Emerging Infectious Diseases, the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Clinical Microbiology and Infection, the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Medical Mycology, and many others.