Chen Huan Chen MD

Professor Chen-Huan Chen was the former Dean of Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, and has made significant contributions to the ongoing medical education reform, involving the new medical curriculum development and implementation since 1998. His teaching interests relate to general aspects of epidemiology, prevention and treatment of vascular diseases, together with research methods for cardiovascular hemodynamics

His research interests focus on cardiovascular epidemiology, hemodynamics, vascular aging, arterial stiffness, wave reflections, heart failure, and development of new methods for noninvasive assessment of cardiac and vascular functions.

His research works have contributed significantly to the understanding of the generalized transfer function concept in the development of the noninvasive central blood pressure monitors, and the optimal utilization of pulse waveform analysis in the general population and various cardiovascular patients.