Prof. Yen-Ching Karen Chen

EXPERTISE

Geriatric epidemiology (dementia and cognition in the elderly)

Osteoporosis and prostate cancer epidemiology

Human genome epidemiology

Environmental epidemiology and analytical chemistry

EDUCATION

1998 – 2001

Sc.D. Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

CURRENT POSITION

2017– present

Professor, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Associate Director, Department of Public Health, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

2012– Present

Adjunct Faculty, Master Program of Statistics, Statistics Education Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES

2012– 2017

Associate Director, Master of Public Health Degree Program, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

2007– 2012

Assistant Professor

2012– 2017

Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Research Center for Genes, Environment and Human HealthCollege of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

2004 – 2006

Project Coordinator & Research Fellow, Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

2001– 2003

Research Scientist, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Health Research Institutes, Taipei, Taiwan

JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARD AND ACADEMIC COMMITTEE

2014 – present

Editorial board member, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Groups)

2013 – present

Academic committee member of epidemiologic and preventive medicine division, Public Health Joint Annual Meeting