Yee-Chun Chen, MD, PhD

Affiliations and titles Director, Distinguished Investigator, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan Executive Council Member, Infection Control Society of Taiwan Executive Council Member, Infectious Diseases Society of Taiwan Council Member, Taiwan Society of Virology and Vaccinology Executive Council Member, Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Founding Member, Asia-Fungal Working Group, the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology

Biography Yee-Chun Chen is Director of National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes since August, 2024. She is Professor of Medicine at the National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine in Taipei, Taiwan. She serves as a consultant or committee member at the Ministry of Health and Welfare, CDC, TFDA, and Taipei City Government. She currently co-chairs a national antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control program sponsored by Taiwan CDC. Professor Chen started her clinical service as attending physician in 1992 at the National Taiwan University Hospital, and currently serves as a professorial lecturer in various clinical infectious diseases, infection control, emerging infectious diseases such as SARS, pH1N1 and COVID-19, infectious diseases in immunocompromised hosts, antimicrobial (including antifungal) stewardship, pathogenesis of sepsis, travel medicine and medical informatics at the National Taiwan University College of Medicine. She is one of the nation's leaders in infection prevention and control, adult vaccination, and medical mycology. Prof Chen’s research focus includes infection control and hospital epidemiology, antibiotic stewardship and antibiotic resistance, medical informatics, clinical and molecular mycology including one health perspective of drug-resistant Aspergillus and Candida infection. She is PI or co-PI of a series of multicenter, clinical and molecular epidemiological studies of infectious diseases in Taiwan as well in Asia. Her dedication to medical research has resulted in more than 350 peer-reviewed journal articles. She is listed in the top 2% scientist in world ranking 2020. Her researcher's profile is available at https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/entities/person/c32ea0ba-8e1d-4320-baf8-92c9e3ab9785 or http://ir.nhri.org.tw/handle/3990099045/7872

Experiences President, Infection Control Society of Taiwan, 2021-2023 Director, the Center for Infection Control; Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, 2018-2024/7/31 Vice President, the International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM), 2015-2022 Deputy Director/Acting Director, National Institute of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, National Health Research Institutes, 2013-2015.