Physician Introduction

中文版 / English Version

Affiliated unit

• Department of Internal Medicine – Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism
• General Nursing Home

Current position

• Chief Physician of Department of Internal Medicine
• Chief Physician of General Nursing Home
• Lecturer appointed by the Ministry of Education, Department of Internal Medicine, National Defense Medical College, National Defense University (Lecture No. 103439)
• Member of Diabetes Joint Care Network of Hualien County Health Bureau
• Deputy Secretary-General of Eastern District of Taiwan Association of Obesity Medicine
• The 28th director of Hualien County Physicians Association (2023)

Main education

Department of Medicine, National Defense Medical College

Personal qualifications

• Resident Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital
• Attending Physician, Department of Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital
• Attending Physician of Armed Forces Taipei Outpatient Center, Armed Forces General Hospital
• Attending Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, National Army Hualien General Hospital
• Attending Physician, Department of Community Medicine, National Army Hualien General Hospital
• Clinical Researcher, Department of Metabolism, Tri-Service General Hospital
• Adjunct teacher, Department of Life Science, School of Science and Technology, Donghua University

License and membership

• Specialist in endocrinology and metabolism (specialist certificate number 0569)
• Internal Medicine Specialist of the Republic of China (specialist certificate number 007760)
• Specialist Physician of Taiwan Association of Obesity Medicine (specialist certificate number 0228)
• Qualified health teacher of the Diabetes Health Education Association of the Republic of China (specialist certificate number 004175)
• Physician of the Republic of China (specialist certificate number 037536)
• Certified Smoking Cessation Physician by National Health Bureau
• Member of the Endocrine Society of the Republic of China
• Member of the Diabetes Society of the Republic of China

Specialty

• Endocrine diseases
  • Endocrine gland diseases: hypothalamus, pituitary gland, thyroid (hyperfunction, insufficiency, goiter, thyroiditis, thyroid ultrasound), parathyroid, gonads.
  • Pancreatic endocrine and diabetes, insulinoma.
  • Diseases of the adrenal cortex and medulla.
  • Hypertension caused by endocrine diseases.

• Metabolic diseases
  • Nutritional disorders: including obesity, malnutrition and vitamin deficiency.
  • Disorders of carbohydrate metabolism: diabetes, prediabetes, diabetes care.
  • Lipodystrophy: hyperlipidemia, dyslipidemia, etc.
    Calcium and mineral metabolism disorders: such as rickets, osteoporosis, etc.
  • Metabolic syndrome: central abdominal obesity, hypertension, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia.

• Obesity medicine
  • Secondary obesity caused by endocrine and metabolic system abnormalities.
  • Obesity in adults and adolescents.
  • Weight loss treatment (diet therapy, exercise therapy, behavior modification, drug therapy)

• General internal diseases
  • Fever, cold, cough, diarrhea, abdominal pain, constipation, vomiting, otitis media, pneumonia, urinary tract infection.

Paper published

• Hypocalcemic Tetany Following Bowel preparation. Acta Nephrologica. 2008; 21:55 (ISSN)
• 藥物耗用標準化之定義每日劑量(defined daily dose)介紹及應用. 感染控制雜誌2008; 18(1):41-46 (ISSN)
• Antithyroid Drug-induced Agranulocytosis. J Chin Med Assoc. 2009 Aug;72(8):438-41. (SCI 2010 IF: 0.678)
• A Randomized, Open-Labeled and Controlled Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Kludone Modified Release in the Treatment of Chinese Type 2 Diabetic Patients Journal Medical Science. 2010;30(1):021-027 (ISSN)
• Symmetrical Brain Calcification. (case report of pseudohypoparathyrodism) American Journal of Medicine. Am J Med. 2010 Feb;123(2):131-3 (SCI impact factor: 5.105; Rank 12%)
• Baseline FEV1 as an Independent Predictor of Development of the Metabolic Syndrome. Metabolism 2010 Jun;59(6):848-53 (SCI impact factor: 2.538)
• Pneumomediastinum Induced by Heroin Inhalation and Exacerbated by Ventilator-induced Barotrauma. Fu-Jen Journal of Medicine 2010；8 (3)：181-186(ISSN)
• 淺談類鴉片藥物之運用：對生理之影響及其照護 Introduction in Application of Opioid: Effect on Physiology and Management 重症醫學雜誌 ； 12 卷 1 期 (2011 / 03 / 01) ， P9 – 17 (ISSN)
• Intraadrenal Adrenocorticotropin Production in Bilateral Macronodular Adrenal Hyperplasia : A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Formos J Endocrin Metab Vol. 1 No. 5: 28-33
• Brain-derived neurotrophic factor, adiponectin, and proinflammatory markers in various subtypes of depression in young men. Int J Psychiatry Med. 2011;42(3):211-26. (SCI IF: 1.029)
• Thyrotropin as an independent factor of renal function and chronic kidney disease in normoglycemic euthyroid adults. Endocr Res. 2012;37(3):110-6. doi: 10.3109/07435800.2011.640374. Epub 2012 May 9.(2013 SCI impact factor: 1.409)
• Ectopic Parathyroid Adenoma Presented with Recurrent Kidney Stone and Hypercalcemic Crisis. Adaptive Medicine 10(4): 161-165, 2018.
• Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors in relation to Overweight Defined by BMI and “Normal-Weight Obesity”( 社會人口統計學和生活方式因素與 BMI 定義的過重和“正常體重肥胖”相關) 台灣肥胖醫學會會訊 中華民國109年01月 2020年第一期 編號68 肥胖醫學新知—期刊摘錄
• Pros and cons of continuous glucose monitoring in the intensive care unit. World J Clin Cases. 2021 Oct 16;9(29):8666-8670. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v9.i29.8666.
• Cancer as an infectious disease: A different treatment alternative using a combination of tigecycline and pyrvinium pamoate – An example of breast cancer. J Microbiol Immunol Infect. 2022 Feb;55(1):51-59. doi: 10.1016/j.jmii.2020.12.008. Epub 2021 Jan 13.

• Effects of Sacubitril/Valsartan Versus Telmisartan in Type 2 Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic Patients with Hypertension and Without Heart Failure: The Rationale and Design of A Randomized Clinical Trial. Cardiovasc Hematol Disord Drug Targets. 2022 Apr 8. doi: 10.2174/1871529X22666220408223329. Online ahead of print.

Oral presentation

• Exercise on insulin action, inflammatory cytokine, and serum tartrate-resistant acid phosphate 5a in obese Chinese male adolescents (2008 Annual Meeting of Taiwan Association of Obesity Medicine)
• Effects of exercise on fasting plasma glucose, inflammatory cytokines and other biochemistry markers in Chinese male adolescents with normal weight (2009 Annual Meeting of Taiwan Association of Obesity Medicine)
• Thyroid function is associated with the composition of metabolic syndrome in euthyroid Chinese (2010 annual meeting of the Society of Endocrinology and Diabetes of the Republic of China)

Poster published

• Relationship between thyroid status and renal function in normoglycemic adult outpatients (the 36th National Military Medical Symposium in 1998)
• A Randomized, Open-Labeled and Controlled Study of the Efficacy and Safety of Kludone Modified Release in the Treatment of Chinese Type 2 Diabetic Patients
• (The 36th National Military Medical Symposium in 1998)
• Correlation study on health behavior management of nursing staff in hospitals in Hualien county and city
• Research in Hualien Hospitals Nurses Health Behavior Management
• (The 39th National Military Medical Symposium 101 years)
• Discussing the differences in motivation, body image, adipokines, inflammation index of patients in weight loss clinics and healthy people when losing weight (the 40th National Military Medical Symposium 102 years)
• Nurses Health Management in Hospitals. APNRC 2014