Biography :
Robert Jeenchen Chen, MD, MPH is currently practising cardiovascular
surgery in Taipei Medical University Hospital, Taiwan. He had his
advanced training of cardiothoracic transplant surgery in Indiana Univ
Methodist Hosp, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He had medical school
(MD) and residency (cardiovascular surgery) in National Taiwan
University (NTU) and NTU Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan and then Master of
Public Health from Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. His working
experience included Taipei Tzuchu Hospital as an attending physician &
clinical assistant professor, Cheng-Hsin General Hospital (Prof. Jeng
Wei), Taipei , Taiwan, as an attending physician of cardiothoracic
critical care, and Emory University Hospital Midtown, Atlanta, GA,
USA, as a clinical fellow of cardiothoracic surgery. Active in both
clinical and research, he has expertise in cardiac and aortic surgery,
vascular interventions, endovascular techniques, minimally invasive
procedures, cardiothoracic transplant, mechanical circulatory support,
statistical programming (Stata, SAS, SQL), and clinical epidemiology,
also as a member of ATS, ISHLT, ACC, STS, AHA, SCCM, ISMICS, and
ISSCR. He has dozens of SCI publications, and is also a reviewer of
several SCI journals such as Am J Resp Crit Care Med, Plos ONE (also
as an academic editor), Medicine (also as an academic editor), Annals
of Thoracic Surgery, J of Endovascular Therapy, International J of
Cardiology, etc. He also reviewed abstracts and was a poster
discussant for several international conferences including ISHLT 2016,
ISHLT 2017, and SCCM 2018.