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.

Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, cardiothoracic transplant, mechanical circulatory support, minimally invasive procedures, endovascular techniques, clinical epidemiology and database, clinical risk estimation and modeling, clinical biostatistics, clinical trials