2019

• 2019.11.19-11.20 Associate Professor Liang-Yin Ke from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology visited Cambridge Innovation Center, Boston, USA for international collaborations. Later had a meeting with Dr. Charles Hsu, Dr. June Huang and Bolong Xiong from EGI Capital, a Fund rising company in Cambridge Innovation Center, Boston.

• 2019.11.08 Professor Hung-Yi Chuang attended 2019 International Conference on Frontiers in Environmental and Occupational Medicine and had an oral presentation. 
• 2019.11.08 Professor Pei-Shih Chen attended 2019 International Conference on Frontiers in Environmental and Occupational Medicine and had an oral presentation.
• 2019.11.07 Professor Hung-Yi Chuang attended 2019 International Conference on Frontiers in Environmental and Occupational Medicine.

• 2019.11.01 We invite Professor Goh to share a special talk for graduate students. He is a practice professor of Division of Analytics and Operations in college of management at National University of Singapore. The topic is Global Supply Chains and Digital Transformation in Hospital.

• 2019.10.29-10.31 Professor Maggie Reitz from Towson University, USA, was invited by Dept. of Occupational Therapy to participant the International Scholar Co-teaching Program 

• 2019.10.28-10.30 Assistant Professor Karla Ausderau from Wisconsin University, USA, was invited by Dept. of Occupational Therapy to participant the International Scholar Co-teaching Program

• 2019.10.27 Assistant Professor Karla Ausderau from Wisconsin University, USA, was invited by Dept. of Occupational Therapy as speaker. The topic was: The Impact of Autism Spectrum Disorders and Eating Challenges on Family Mealtimes  
• 2019.10.27 Professor Maggie Reitz from Towson University, USA, was invited by Dept. of Occupational Therapy as speaker. The topic was: History and Ethics of Community-Based Practice  
• 2019.10.24 Special talks by Anne K. Bendt, Federico Torta, Bo Burla from National University of Singapore on “The clinical applications of mass spectrometry biotechnology” at KMU hospital. Topics were “Mass Spectrometry of Lipids in Human Blood Plasma”, “A path to translation towards mass spectrometry-based clinical assays”, “Defining boundaries of lipidomic variations in health and disease” and “Data Processing of Large-Scale Lipidomics Analysis “

• 2019.10.21 Associate Professor Liang-Yin Ke made a special talk at Department of Biochemistry, Mysore University, India
• 2019.10.18-10.19 Associate Professor Liang-Yin Ke had academic collaborations at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India 
• 2019.10.17  Professor Ming-Tsang Wu attended 2019 ISEE asia chapters international conference and had a speech about“Prenatal environment and the children growth, and immune and renal developments in Taiwan Maternal and Infant Cohort Study( TMICS )

• 2019.09.21-09.29  Professor Chun-Yuh Yang visited and interviewed to Jiangsu with The Foundation for Poison Control.
• 2019.09.16-09.20 Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences received distinguished professors from Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, and arranged the visiting of teaching facilities and hospitals. 
• 2019.09.15-09.22 Associate Professor Megumi Takizawa from Department of PT, IPU Japan, visited Department of PT, KMU, and participated clinical tours and discussion activity in the faculty’s teaching forum.
  
• 2019.09.15 The vice president of Up Manila visited to Kaohsiung Medical University that was received by the vice president—Chun Yuh Yang and the director of the department of public health-- Pei-Shih Chen.
  
• 2019.09.12 The Association of Medical Education from Haidian District in Beijing visited Kaohsiung Medical University .The director of the department of public health-- Pei-Shih Chen had a speech about infectious bioaerosols.
  
• 2019.08.30-09.06 Professor Ming-Tsang Wu  play the role of leader to visit Harvard University.
  
• 2019.08.25-08.28 Professor Chun-Yuh Yang  attended The 31th Annual Scientific Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology(ISEE2019) Netherlands and had a poster presentation.
  
• 2019.08.25-08.28 Professor Ming-Tsang Wu attended The 31th Annual Scientific Conference of the International Society of Environmental Epidemiology(ISEE2019) Netherlands.
  
• 2019.08.06-08.08 Dr. Ming-Chung Chou, associate professor of Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, invited teachers and students from Hokkaido University for international exchange.

• 2019.07.17-07.24  Assistant Professor Su-Hui Hu and Associate Professor Liang-Yin Ke from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology will visit Waseda University, Japan to join the meeting for research collaboration and progress reports.  Associate Professor Liang-Yin Ke will present research topic: “The immunomodulatory ability of mesenchymal stem cells is mainly responsible for the massive range of their therapeutic potential”.
• 2019.07.14-08.15  Department of Physical Therapy, Dr Hui-Yi Wang took 5 undergraduate students (going to be Year 3) took a four-week’s oversea placement at Tonik Asia Group Specialists.
• 2019.07.08  Department of Physical Therapy, Dr Shih-fen Hsiao served as invited speaker and award judge during the 4th FHS Conference at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University.
• 2019.07.03  Department of Physical Therapy, Dr Shih-fen Hsiao was invited to teach the third students at the Division of Physical Therapy, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Hokkaido University.
• 2019.07.02-08.01  Assistant Professor Su-Hui Hu and for bachelor students in Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology join the summer research program in Waseda University, Japan. The research clerkship program is held by Professor Etsuro Ito, from July 2 to August 1, 2019. 
• 2019.06.28-07.28  Department of Physical Therapy, Dr Shih-fen Hsiao took 3 undergraduate students (going to be Year 4) took a four-week’s oversea placement at Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University.

• 2019.06.07-06.14 Professor Ming-Tsang Wu visit Masonic Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota in the United States of America and give a special seminar.（Department of Public Health）
• 2019.06.02-06.06 Associate professor Chiung-Yu Peng attended the 67th Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics which was held by the ASMS (American Society for Mass Spectrometry), and had a poster presentation.（Department of Public Health）
• 2019.06.01-06.06 Dr. Yu-Chang Tyan, Professor of Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, attended the 67th ASMS Conference and published papers「Protein identification- the translational research study of HBx genes related to hepatocellular carcinoma & Is NAP treatment a solution for neuroprotection in ADNP mutation syndrome?」in Atlanta, USA.（Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences）2019.06.01-06.12 Associate professor Hui-Min Hsieh attended 2019 Annual Research Meeting in Washington D.C.（Department of Public Health）
• 2019.05.31-06.14 Professor Wang Tsu-Nai attended the  EAACI Congress 2019 in LISBON, PORTUGAL and had a poster presentation.（Department of Public Health）
• 2019.05.31-06.07 Professor Ming-Tsang Wu attended the 67th Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics which was held by the ASMS (American Society for Mass Spectrometry), and had a poster presentation.（Department of Public Health）
• 2019.07.28-07.30 SDPS 2019 Taichung is organized around the theme of Changing the World via Innovative Design and Applications of Automation and AI. HAMI sponsored this conference for one symposium named “The Research Trend of Integration Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics” and present 5 papers.
• 2019.05.14 Dr. Jo-Chi Jao, chairman, Dr. Ming-Chung Chou, associate Professor, and Dr. Chien-Chih Ke, assistant professor of Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, received Dr. Shiu-Shu Po, chairman and Dr. Liang-Ting Lin professor of Department of Health Technology and Informatics from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and arranged the visiting of hospitals for internship.
• 2019.05.10-05.13 Department of Physical Therapy, Shih-fen Hsiao managed the TPTA Booth during the WCPT Congress Exhibition 2019.
• 2019.05.11 Department of Physical Therapy, Shih-fen Hsiao attended the GM of the International Society for Electrophysical Agents in Physical Therapy (ISEAPT) and was re-elected as Secretary of the ISEAPT (term 2019-2023).
• 2019.05.10 Department of Physical Therapy, Shih-fen Hsiao attended the 19th WCPT Asia & Western Pacific Regional GM as representative for Taiwan Physical Therapy Association (TPTA).
• 2019.05.08-05.09 Department of Physical Therapy, Shih-fen Hsiao attended the 19th World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) GM as representative for Taiwan Physical Therapy Association (TPTA).
• 2019.05.10-05.12 Professor Chen give a speech “Household airborne endotoxin association with asthma and allergy in elementary-school-age children: a case control study in Taiwan”in 4th World Congress on Bioaerosols 2019.
• 2019.05.06-05.07 Professor Wu give a speech “Environmental melamine exposure and renal diseases”in 20th World Congress on Toxicology and Pharmacology 2019.
• 2019.05.04-05.15 Associate Professor Guo and his graduate student attend the Community Rehabilitation Interdisciplinary Service Workshop at Karolinska Institute, Sweden
• 2019.04.23 Dr. Liang-Yin Ke had a seminar and research meeting with Professor Markus R. Wenk in National University of Singapore.
• 2019.04.19 The department of public health, Kaohsiung Medical University have been invited Associate Professor Hui-Ling Yen, Epidemiological Science, from The University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong to speak about “Influenza viruses in the air: in experimental and field setting”.

• 2019.04.15 Dr. Jo-Chi Jao, chairman of Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, invited Prof. Kwan-Hoong Ng for a speech. The title of the speech is Global Medical Physics Education.

• 2019.03.21-04.01 Dr. Sheng-Fan Wang from the Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences and Biotechnology, Kaohsiung University attended Marhidol University Thailand to discuss the issues of double degree.
• 2019.03.13 Professor Frances Yang from Augusta University (USA) visited our department. 
• 2019.03.11 Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology Associate Professor Liang-Yin Ke and Professor Etsuro Ito from Waseda University, and physicians from Changhua Christian Hospital had a research meeting on March 11. Dr. Chen: Establish a platform for rapiddiagnosis of important infectious diseases; Professor Etsuro Ito: progress report. 
• 2019.03.04-03.08 Dr. Arunee Thitithanyanont from Mahidol University, Thailand has been invited by Dr. Sheng-Fan Wang, from Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan to attend Kaohsiung Medical University to participate in international scholar co-teaching as well as discussing the dual degree program.
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• 2019.03.04-03.06 Department of Physical Therapy, SF Hsiao invited Dr Hiroki Mani and Dr Yasuyuki Takamatsu from Hokkaido University Japan gave a speech for the ‘Development of postural control’ and ‘Neural plasticity & neuromodulation’ in the Department of Physical Therapy.

• 2019.02.26 Three graduate students, Amy Zhao, Lisa Le, & Nicha Thumwanit from USC Chan Division of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy(USA) , participate our Inbound Visiting Program for two weeks.
• 2019.01.29 Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology invited Günter Schwarz from Cologne University, Germany, Gopal K. Marathe from Mysore University, India visited at KMU for International Symposium.

• 2019.01.28 Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology Associate Professor Liang-Yin Ke and Professor Günter Schwarz from Cologne University, Germany  had a progress report for MOST-BMBF grant—Investigate the structure, function and enzyme kinetics for ASAH2. The meeting was also for master student’s oral defense.

2018

• 2018.12.27-12.28 Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology Associate professor Liang-Yin Ke invited Etsuro Ito from Waseda University visited at KMU for collaborative teaching. Classes were for bachelor, master and Ph. D students: “Development of ultrasensitive ELISA for early diagnosis” and “Biostatistics”
• 2018.12 Visitors from University of Santo Tomas, Department of medical Technology. Chairman Edilberto P. Manahan and other 2 professors come to our department for visiting.

• 2018.12.14-12.23 The international exchange and collaborate with Dr. Thomas Wan from University of Central Florida.（HAMI）
• 2018.12.07-12.12 The international exchange and collaborate with Dr. Christian Wernz from Virginia Commonwealth University.（HAMI）
• 2018.12.04 Visitors from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.Name list of visitors: 1.HTI Dept. Head Prof. Shea Ping YIP (Introduction of PolyU/HTI)；2.Huang Chian Ling；3.Four students

• 2018.11.23-11.25 Department of Physical Therapy, Dr SF Hsiao attended the ACPT Congress 2018 for poster presentation and acted as symposium panelist (Cebu, Philippines)
• 2018.11.23 International academic exchange with Dalian Neusoft University of Information in China.
• 2018.11.22 Department of Physical Therapy, Dr SF Hsiao attended the ACPT General Meeting (Cebu, Philippines)
• 2018.11.16 Dr. Sheng-Fan Wang from Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University has visited the Department of Microbiology, Mahidol University and discussed regarding dual degree issue with Dr. Prasit Palittapongarnpim (Head), and Dr. Arunee Thithithanyanont (Deputy Head) (second and third one from left to right in the photo).

• 2018.11.14 Dr. Sheng-Fan Wang from Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University has visited the Department of Microbiology, Chulalongkorn University and discussed regarding dual degree issue with Dr. Kobchai Pattargulwani (Head)(second one from left to right in both photos), Dr. Naraporn Sombocnna (first one from left to right in both photos) and Dr. Wanchai Assavalapasakul (fourth one in the second photo).

• 2018.11.05-11.23 Dr. Daniel Bender from Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne, Germany visited Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, KMU for research and laboratory collaboration. On Nov 19, 2018, Dr. Bender gave a talk on “Sulfite oxidase in human health and disease”.
• 2018.10.19 Department of Physical Therapy, SF Hsiao invited Prof. Yu Konishi from Department of Physical Education, National Defense Academy gave a speech for the neurophysiological mechanism of ACL injury.
• 2018.10.15-10.17 Dr. Yu-Chang Tyan, Professor of Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, visited Department of Chemistry of National University of Singapore for international academic and research cooperation. 
• 2018.10.09-10.12 Associate Professor Liang-Yin Ke and master program student Shi Hui Law attended the international conference- Baltic Conference Series Fall 2018, Stockholm, held by International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). Associate Professor Liang-Yin Ke was invited to present ”Metabolism of Lysophosphatidylcholine in Human Diseases; Shi Hui Law made another poster presentation “Novel function of enzyme-X for degrading lysophosphatidylcholine as therapeutics for vascular diseases” and won the Best Poster Presentation Award.

• 2018.10.07-10.13 Dr. Sheng-Fan Wang from Departement of Medical Laboratory Sciences and Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University invited Dr. Wanchai Assavalapsakul from Department of Microbiology, Chulalongkorn University,Thailand to visit and establish international cooperation and academic exchanges between the two universities.

• 2018.09.26 Department of Physical Therapy, MJ Hsu invited prof. Louise Ada to attend the “Direct access to physical therapy service” forum for the graduate students.
• 2018.09.17-09.21 Department of Physical Therapy, Chair YJ Lue and SF Hsiao participated in the academic exchange courses of Ibaraki Prefecture University of Health Sciences .
• 2018.09.17-09.21Department of Physical Therapy, SF Hsiao invited Assistant Prof. Kazuhiro Miyata from Ibaraki Prefecture University of Health Sciences gave a speech for the ‘PT Forum for Direct Access to Physical Therapy Service’ in the Department of Physical Therapy.
• 2018.09.16-09.23 Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences,Department of Physical Therapy and Department of Occupational Therapy received distinguished professors from Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, and arranged the visiting of teaching facilities and hospitals.  
• 2018.09.15 Yi-Jia Huang, student of Department of Public Health, attended the international conference, oral presentation.
• 2018.09.15 Kuan-Yu Liao, student of Department of Public Health, attended the international conference, oral presentation.   
• 2018.09.15 Zih-Yu Chen, student of Department of Public Health, attended the international conference, oral presentation. 
• 2018.09.14  Dr. Pei-Shih Chen, chairman of Department of Public Health, attended the international conference.
• 2018.09.03 Representatives from Okayama University, Japan visited Kaohsiung Medical University to introduce the Academic Exchange Program. Prof. Shinya Saito (Vice Dean) and Prof. Takehito Taguchi also welcomed KMU graduate students to join this International Program. Two departments of College of Health Sciences (including Department of Laboratory Sciences and Biotechnology and Department Radical Imaging and Radiological Sciences) and Division of R&D and International Affair of College of Health Sciences were invited to participate this activity.
   
• 2018.08.26-08.30 Dr. Ming-Tsang Wu , chairman of Department of Public Health, attended the international conference.
• 2018.08.20-08.23 Associate Professor Sheng-Fan Wang from the Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences and Biotechnology, Kaohsiung Medical University has visited Dr. Wanchai Assavalapsakul at Department of Microbiology, Chulalongkorn University for discussion of the research collaboration and student exchange program. 
• 2018.08.17-09.21 Associate Professor Liang-Yin Ke, master program student Shi Hui Law and two bachelor program students went to the laboratory of Professor Guenter Schwarz in Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne, for research collaboration and for a students’ internship program.  
• 2018.08.16  Associate Professor Liang-Yin Ke invited Professor Etsuro Ito to give a talk in KMU and to discuss research project. The talk entitled as “Urinary adiponectin as a new diagnostic index for chronic kidney disease due to diabetic nephropathy
• 2018.07.26-08.01 Dr. Ming-Chung Chou, associate professor of Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, led 4-th grader student to take international observership in Toronto General Hospital in Canada.
• 2018.07.26-08.31 Associate Professor Liang-Yin Ke, and two bachelor program students went to the laboratory of Professor Etsuro Ito in TWIns Institute, Waseda University, for research collaboration and for a students’ internship program.
• 2018.07.25-07.28 Professor Hui-Yi Wang accompanied the above mentioned students to the TAGS Physiotherapy Center, Malaysia.
• 2018.07.18-08.17 Four PT students (Mr Chen et al.) visit the Borneo Specialist Hospital, Malaysia, for 4-week overseas internship.
• 2018.07.17-07.22 Faculty member, Chen Chien-Chih, accompanied the above mentioned students to the Borneo Specialist Hospital, Malaysia.
• 2018.07.12-07.14 Dr. Jo-Chi Jao, associate professor of Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, visited Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences for international observership.
• 2018.07.09-07.28 Three PT students (Ms. Chen et al.) visit the Loving Physiotherapy Center, Macao, for 3-week overseas internship.
• 2018.07.09-08.08 Six PT students (Ms. Chu et al.) visit the TAGS Physiotherapy Center, Malaysia, for 4-week overseas internship.
• 2018.07.07-07.17 Yuan-Wei Wang, student of Department of Public Health, attended KCC New Century Elite Development Program.
• 2018.07.07 The CEO of World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT), Jonathon Kruger, was invited to give a workshop on advocacy in KMU. The workshop was funded by the Taiwan Physical Therapy Association (TPTA) and the Department of NGO International Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Two Vice Presidents from Korean Physical Therapy Association were also attended the workshop.
• 2018.07.05-07.07 Dr. Chen from Department of Occupational Therapy attended 2018 XIII World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation (WAPR) conference, and presented poster presentation. 
• 2018.07.01-07.28 Four PT students (Ms. Tan et al.) visit Ibaraki Prefectural University (IPU), Japan, for 4-week overseas internship
• 2018.07.01-07.07 Dr. Ming-Chung Chou, chairman of Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, participated in Hokkaido Summer Institute 2018 as a speaker and led 2-nd grader student to take international observership in Hokkaido University. 
• 2018.06.14 Hsu MJ et al. A preliminary study on the performance of one-leg versus two-leg symptom-limited exercise test in individuals with subacute stroke. The 4th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (Lisbon, Portugal)
• 2018.05.31-06.12Dr. Yu-Chang Tyan, Professor of Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, attended the 66th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectroscopy and Allied Topics in San Diego, CA, USA.
• 2018.05.12-05.20 Dr. Yu-Chang Tyan, Professor of Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, attended the ceremony of establishing Sistership between Kaohsiung Medical University and Barzilai Medical Center of Israel. 
• 2018.04.30-05.03 Professor Hiroshi Maejima from Faculty of Health Sciences, Hokkaido University, Japan, gave series of lectures to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Department of Physical Therapy.

• 2018.05.12-05.20 Dr. Yu-Chang Tyan, Professor of Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, attended the ceremony of establishing Sistership between Kaohsiung Medical University and Barzilai Medical Center of Israel. 
• 2018.03.29-03.30 Dr. Tsai(OT) attend 2018 international occupational therapy conference at Yunnan , China
• 2018.03.23-03.25 Dr Shih-fen Hsiao organized the ‘Asia Young Leaders’ Program 2018’ as a part of JPTA-TPTA Collaboration Training Program: Toward A Sustainable Future in Asia.  
• 2018.03.01-03.05 Dr. Jo-Chi Jao, Associate Professor of Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, attended Team-Based Learning Conference (TBLC) in San Diego, USA.
• 2018.01.29-02.09 Assistant Professor Liang-Yin Ke from Medical Laboratory Science & Biotechnology won the abstract winner and finalists in a competition held by the University of Cologne-Kaohsiung Medical University Alliance, thereafter was invited to visit Institut für Biochemie, University of Cologne. Dean Professor Günter Schwarz is the host of this invitation. On Jan 29, 2018 Ke made a scientific presentation on “Unveiling the function and structure of N-Acylsphingosine Amidohydrolase 2 isoform 2”. The following week on Feb 7, Ke will make another presentation “My recent researches on lipid biosciences”.
• 2018.01.08-28 Dr. Guo leading the OT undergraduate and graduate students attend short term exchange programs at USC Department of Occupational Therapy.