• 2023.12.15 Associate Professor Wanchai Assavalapsakul from Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University visited KMU and gave a talk to students.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.12.13 Dr. Tzong-Shi Lu, an alumnus of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, visited KMU and gave a talk: Finding your niche. Dr. Lu is currently the associate research scholar in Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.12.13-12.14 To enhance students’ sensitivity to international health issues, Prof. Betty Ya-Wen Chiu invited Prof. Masamine Jimba from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and the former President of APACPH to deliver two speeches.（Department of Public Health）
    • On December 13th：Prof. Masamine Jimba delivered a speech on ‘Using The Lens of Human Security for Communicable Disease Control.’ With his rich research and practical experience in global health, he provided students with different global views on infectious diseases and greatly broadened students' international vision.
    • On December 14th：Prof. Masamine Jimba delivered a speech entitled ‘Poverty and Health Promotion at Global Level.’ He shared his perspective on the current global poverty and health promotion status, combining his humanitarian aid experience in Nepal. Eventually, he provided opportunities for international and domestic students to share their experiences and cultures with each other.
  • 2023.12.13 Dr. Tran Ngoc Dang and Dr. Nguyen Van Hieu are scholars from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City and Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry in Vietnam, respectively. They will be visiting on December 13th to engage in exchanges with three faculty members from our department regarding University Social Responsibility (USR) at Kaohsiung Medical University.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.12.06 Dr. Kenichi Tsuchizawa (background in occupational therapy), Vice President of Hirosaki University of Health and Welfare in Japan, visited for discussions on potential future collaboration opportunities. （Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2023.11.26-12.02 Teacher Peng Qiong yu attended the 23rd World Congress on Safety and Health at Work in 2023.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.11.17-11.21 Professor Ke invited Assistant Professor Dr. Daniel Bender from the University Hospital of Zurich in Switzerland to visit KMU for teaching and research cooperation, and to give a special lecture and collaborative teaching.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.11.11-11.12 Associate Professor Shu-Chi Wang was invited to give a speech at the 2023 MOPM Joint Conference on Multibody Medicine and Precision Medicine（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.11.09-11.12 Ming-De Chen, Yi-Jung Tsai and Hsien-Yu Tsai participated in the Taiwan-Japan Business meeting (11/09), as well as the 57th JOTC (Japan Occupational Therapy Conference) (11/10-11/12).（Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2023.11.09-11.12 Athena Yijung Tsai attended the Asia Occupational Therapy Exchange Meeting(11/9)、Japan-Taiwan Business Meeting(11/11)（Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2023.11.08-11.14 Department of PT held the “Joint Training Workshop of the CPE OPTIMAL: Sustainable Physical Therapy Collaboration for Continuous Care” with the support from TPTA and KMU USR funding; total 7 PT trainees from Vietnam universities/hospitals completed the training workshop. （Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2023.11.08 Dr Shih-fen Hsiao attended the Appeal Committee of World Physiotherapy (online) & attended the Board Meeting of Asian Confederation for Physical Therapy (online).（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2023.11.03 Professor Ke and Associate Professor Tsai of the Department of Medical Technology invited Professor Etsuro Ito form Waseda University, Japan to visit KMU and to discuss teaching and research cooperation. Later, professors went to the Animal Vaccine and Adjuvant Technology R&D Center of Pingtung University of Science and Technology to participate in a research progress meeting report.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.10.28-11.02 Teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu led members of the project team and the Director of Health Promotion Administration to Kuching, Malaysia to attend the 54th APACPH Executive Committee, Member Meeting as well as participate in the annual meeting series activities, and hosted a parallel forum on "Asia-Pacific Health Promotion and Non-Communicable Disease Prevention and Control".(Department of Public Health)
  • 2023.10.21 17th International Symposium of Medical Imaging and Radiological Science hosted by the Department of Medical and Radiological Sciences.(Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences)
  • 2023.10.20 Dr Shih-fen Hsiao was invited by our sister College, the Faculty of Health Science, Hokkaido University, to join the 6th International FHS Conference and served as judge panel for best poster award.(Department of Physical Therapy)
  • 2023.10.18-10.22 Professor Ming-De Chen was invited to attend the 6th FHS International Symposium of the School of Health Sciences of Hokkaido University and discuss departmental exchanges and cooperation in the next year.(Department of Occupational Therapy)
  • 2023.10.04 Teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu was invited by the Japan Global Health Association to discuss future cooperation with Yonsei University of South Korea and the Ministry of Health of Vietnam to establish an Asian academic research network on "refugee health issues".(Department of Public Health)

  • 2023.10.02-10.05 Professor Liang-Yin Ke went to Spain to participate the “63rd International Conference on the Bioscience of Lipids (ICBL):2nd–5th October 2023–Palma, Spain”.(Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology)

  • 2023.09.09  PT Department, liaised with Taiwan Physical Therapy Association’s Vietnam Project and the KMU USR Project, organized an online workshop for PTs in developing country to improve the professional knowledge/skills. The third workshop was delivered by alumni Jeffrey Chao with the topic: Assessment of Lower Quadrants. The number of participants online was 116 according to the Vietnamese PT Association.（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2023.08.31-09.07 Professor Betty Ya-Wen Chiu will participate in the “2023 Cochrane Colloquium” in London and present a poster on the topic "Dissemination of Evidence-Based Medicine by the Taiwan Evidence-Based Medicine Association."（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.08.22 Teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu was invited by the Japan Global Health Association to conduct the third discussion with Yonsei University of South Korea, the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, and scholars of Thailand on the content of the Asian Academic Research Network research funding application proposal for " refugee health issues ".（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.08.19 PT Department, liaised with Taiwan Physical Therapy Association’s Vietnam Project and the KMU USR Project, organized an online workshop for PTs in developing country to improve the professional knowledge/skills. Second workshop was delivered by alumni Jeffrey Chao with the topic: Assessment of Lower Quadrants. The number of participants online was 140 according to the Vietnamese PT Association.（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2023.08.18-09.02 Asso. Prof. Wan-Chi Tsai attended EMI Skills-UP program of Arizona State University Global Launch.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.08.15 Teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu was invited by the Japan Global Health Association to conduct the second discussion with Yonsei University of South Korea, the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, and scholars of Thailand on the content of the Asian Academic Research Network research funding application proposal for " refugee health issues ".（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.08.13-09.13 Professor Sheng-Fan Wang and five students from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, KMU joined the New Southbound Plan Internship Program at the Department of Microbiology, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.08.08 Teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu was invited by the Japan Global Health Association to conduct the first discussion with Yonsei University of South Korea, the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, and scholars of Thailand on the content of the Asian Academic Research Network research funding application proposal for " refugee health issues ".（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.08.04 Teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu participated in the preparatory meeting for the 54th Annual Meeting in 2023 held by the International Scientific Committee of the Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH).（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.08.02 Teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu was invited by the Japan Global Health Association to discuss future cooperation with Yonsei University of South Korea and the Ministry of Health of Vietnam to establish an Asian academic research network on "refugee health issues".（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.08.01-08.31 Professor Sheng-Fan Wang from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Health Sciences, KMU conducted a NSCT grant: Targeting Endogenous microRNA for the Development of Dengue Virus Therapy—Taiwan-Thailand Bilateral Collaboration Project. （Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.08.01-08.31 Professor Pei-Yu Chu and students Chia-Chi Cheng, Guan-Hua Huang from Medical Laboratory Science joined the internship program at the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Japan.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.30 Two students from the Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, Guan-Yu Chu and Shih-En, Chen have completed their 5-week internship at IPU in Japan and returned to Taiwan safely.（Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences）
  • 2023.07.27-07.28 Professor Etsuro Ito from Waseda University, Japan visited Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology of KMU for research collaborations. （Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.25-08.07 Professor Liang-Yin Ke from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology visited the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Professor Ke also gave a talk entitled as “Role of electronegative low-density lipoprotein and lysophosphatidylcholine in atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases”, after speech he also introduced the Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology of KMU. （Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.22 PT Department, liaised with Taiwan Physical Therapy Association’s Vietnam Project and the KMU USR Project, organized an online workshop for PTs in developing country to improve the professional knowledge/skills. First workshop was delivered by alumni Jeffrey Chao with the topic: Foundations of Assessment & Treatment of Musculoskeletal Dysfunction. The number of participants online was 140 according to the Vietnamese PT Association.（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2023.07.19-07.21 On July 19th to 21st, as the first vice chairman of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) and the chairman of the Taiwan region, teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu met with the National Health Service and the National Institutes of Health on Group Health Science The Institute, the National Taiwan University Institute of Health Behavior and Community Science, and the Collaborating Centers for Health Promotion (CCHP) affiliated to the international alliance jointly organized a 3-day "Asia-Pacific Health Promotion and Non-communicable Disease Prevention and Education Training" .
    On the first day of the event, 7 domestic teacher representatives from National Taiwan University, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Beijing Medical University, Chinese Medical University, National Cheng Kung University, Tzu Chi and Normal University were invited to introduce 7 core theoretical models of health promotion and introduce foreign case studies. As the main structure of the cross-university co-teaching syllabus, it is the first time in our country to build a consensus on the core curriculum of health promotion, and to conduct in-depth exchanges and discussions with scholars from the world's top National University of Singapore and the Tokyo University of Japan.
    The public speech on the 20th was very rare to invite 4 influence guests as speakers: Mr. Tay Choon Hong, Director of the Singapore Health Promotion Board, Dr. Yik Ying Teo, Dean of the School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, Japan Dr. Masamine Jimba, an honorary professor at the University of Tokyo, and Xu Zhicheng, deputy director of the Institute of Population Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health in Taiwan, and other domestic and foreign officials and scholars participated, focusing on the six core competencies of health promotion, sharing countries' efforts in non-communicable diseases Disease control and prevention and related policy formulation and case studies. There were also participants from 15 countries including the United States, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, China, the Kingdom of Eswatini, Portugal, Belize, Saint Kitts and Nevis. Hundreds of experts and scholars in the field of health promotion and health officials participated in the event. After the speech, the foreign guests had an in-depth policy formulation and practical discussion with the central and local health officials sent by our country. All parties have collided with new ideas on how to promote and implement the non-communicable disease prevention and control plan, and have gained a lot.
    On July 20th, Professor Betty Ya-Wen Chiu hosted the & quot ; Asia Pacific Health Promotion and Non-communicable Disease Prevention & quot ; workshop at the College of Public Health, National Taiwan University. The event featured public lectures and invited four official representatives and expert scholars from the health sectors of Singapore Health Promotion Board(HPB), National University of Singapore(NUS), the University of Tokyo in Japan, and Taiwan's National Health Research Institutes(NHRI). Mr. Tay, the Chief Executive Officer of HPB, showed us how Singapore utilizes policy and regulatory measures, multi-sectoral partnerships, and data and technology to build up a healthy nation. Dr. Yik Ying Teo, Dean of NUS emphasized the importance of academic-government partnership in the formulation of health policies and illustrated how Singapore manages to establish a working model between government agencies and the universities to develop evidence-based public policies. Dr. Masamine Jimba from University of Tokyo highlighted the use of population health science not only in policy-making but also in developing case studies on NCD prevention. Dr. Chih-Cheng Hsu, Deputy Director from NHRI, discussed national-level precision healthcare and ICOPE operations in communities, as well as how Taiwan responds to chronic disease burden in the superaged era. Learning from their experiences has been invaluable.After the lectures, international guests engaged in in-depth policy formulation and practical discussions with Taiwan's central and local health officials. The event was attended by over 120 health promotion experts, scholars, and health officials from 15 different countries.The results of the activity were also published on the website of the National Health Administration, the link is as follows: https://www.hpa.gov.tw/Pages/Detail.aspx?nodeid=4705&pid=17352（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.07.17-08.19 Students of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology joined the internship program at the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. （Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.16-07.30 Chang-Chih Kuo with 3 students participated in 111-year Education Ministry USC Overseas Internship Program for the Development of Cross-Cultural Occupational Therapy Programs.（Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2023.07.15-07.31 Professor Sheng-Fan Wang from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Health Sciences, KMU（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.14 Teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu participated in the Young Investigator Travelers Award (YITA) review committee meeting of the 54th annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) in 2023.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.07.07-07.22 Professor Liang-Yin Ke and Students of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology joined the internship program at the Cambridge Innovation Center and the Lab Central at Boston, USA. Later Professor Ke and Students also went to the Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine and the Department of Cell Biology & Neuroscience, Rutgers university New Brunswick to seek for future research collaborations and students’ exchange program. Assistant Professor Dr. Wei Dai hosted the whole event and mini educational tour at the Center for Advanced Proteomics.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.07-07.16 Professor Yeou-Lih Huang attended the 19th Asian Chemical Congress at Istanbul, Turkiye and gave a talk entitled as “Preconcentration and determination of trace selenium in environmental water samples using magnetic graphitic carbon nitride nanocomposites and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.05 Teacher Betty Ya-Wen Chiu was invited by the Japan Global Health Association to discuss future cooperation with Yonsei University of South Korea and the Ministry of Health of Vietnam to establish an Asian academic research network on "refugee health issues".（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.07.01-07.31 Students (Nahathai Ngamsopee and Yanida Fangkoch) from the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, joined the Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Health Sciences, KMU internship program.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.07.01-07.31 Associate Professor Dr. Panan Ratthawongjirakul from the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, visited Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Health Sciences, KMU, for the students’ exchange program. Besides, we launched a three-university joined research collaboration among National Ping-Tung University Science and Technology, Chulalongkorn University, and Kaohsiung Medical University.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology） 
  • 2023.06.30-07.28 Ying-Chun Chou organized the “Overseas Internship Program” (3 undergraduate students visiting flying Kids Occupational Therapy, Malaysia.（Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2023.06.29-07.31 Associate Professor Shu-Chi Wang from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, College of Health Sciences, KMU Carried out the Ministry of Education's Learning from the Sea and Building Dreams Program with medical students, and went to the Pittsburgh Eye Medical Center in the United States for a research internship. Through this project, the basic research technology of eye inflammation-related diseases induced by the high-fat microenvironment will be improved in China, and substantive research cooperation and cultural exchanges will be carried out to promote students' international vision and career planning ambitions.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.06.26-07.28 Dr. Ming-Chung Chou and two junior students, Ms. Shih-En Chen and Mr. Guan-Yu Chu, visit Ibaraki Prefecture University of Health Sciences for 4-weeks long overseas observation and academic exchange.（Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences）
  • 2023.06.26 Teacher Ya-Wen Chiu attended the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) senior cadres meeting.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.06.25Dr SF Hsiao was invited as online panelist in the World Physiotherapy Seminar: Direct Access to talk about the journey of the amendment of PT Act in Taiwan, in the World Physiotherapy Online Congress 2023.（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2023.06.24-08.04 3 undergraduate students participate the Summer Occupational Therapy Immersion (SOTI) program at the University of Southern California (USC), US from 6/24-8/4)（Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2023.06.23-07.30  Ying-Chun Chou serves as the team leader of the “Overseas Internship Program” (6 undergraduate students visiting Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences, IPUHS, Japan, from 6/23-7/30) to Japan.（Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2023.06.22-06.29 Teacher Hui-Min Hsieh lead five students from Kaohsiung Medical University, attending AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, the largest annual conference on health policy and health services research in the USA in 2023.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.06.11-06.18 Teacher Chien Hung Lee attended 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for Epidemiologic Research in Portland, USA.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.06.09 Teacher Ya-Wen Chiu led the research team, and Dr. Lin Cheng-Kuan, the former vice president of Shing Mark Hospital in Vietnam, who is also an alumnus of KMU's medical department, gave a speech at KMU and visited the Taiwan Regional Office of the Asia-Pacific Public Health Academic Alliance.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.06.06-06.14 Teacher Tsu-Nai Wang attended European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI)-2023 in Hamburg, Germany.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.06.05 Speaker: Prof. Min-Ying Lydia Su,Topic: Diagnosis and Staging of Cancers Using MRI and Clinical Implementation of Artificial Intelligence Research.（Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences）
  • 2023.06.02 Academic Alliance and the director of the Global Health Research Center of KMU, Teacher Ya-Wen Chiu attended the "Asian Countries Immigrants and Health" online forum, which was initiated by Professor Dr. Jun Kobayashi, chairman of the Japan Global Health Association, with participants from Japan, South Korea's Yonsei University, and the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, discussed "immigrant health issues will become an important global health issue from 2020". On June 2, Teacher Ya-Wen Chiu was once again invited by the Japan Global Health Association to communicate and discuss with representatives from South Korea and Vietnam on how to establish an Asian academic research network for "refugee health issues" in the future.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.06.02 Dr SF Hsiao was invited as panelist in the World Physiotherapy Seminar: Direct Access to talk about the journey of the amendment of PT Act in Taiwan, in the World Physiotherapy Congress 2023 in Dubai.（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2023.06.01 Dr SF Hsiao organized the ‘Taiwan Night’ at Dubai for Taiwan Physical Therapy Association. Vice President William Lai joined the event with pre-recorded video online to express the gratitude for the international collaboration in many occasions.（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2023.05.30-05.31 Dr Shih-fen Hsiao attended the World Physiotherapy General Meeting as voting delegate of Taiwan Physical Therapy Association.（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2023.05.26 Prof. Kwan-Hoong Ng, Creativity in Scientific Research.(Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences)
  • 2023.05.26 Prof. Cheng-Shie Wuu, Special Treatment Procedures.(Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences)
  • 2023.04.30-05.13 Chang-Chih Kuo, participated in the "Overseas Internship Program" of the Ministry of Education, to Karolinska Institute in Sweden and was invited to give a lecture.(Department of Occupational Therapy)
  • 2023.04.19 To enhance the students’ sensitivity of international health issues, Prof. Betty Ya-Wen Chiu invited Dr. Vincent Rollet from Graduate Institute of European Studies of Wenzao Ursuline University to deliver a special lecture which was entitled " Addressing Health Security Threats at the Regional Level: the case of the European Union(EU)" .
    Based on his long-term research in health security and international politics, his speech provided students with different global views on global health governance, which greatly broadened students' international security vision. All participants gave a high appraisal and positive feedback on the lecture.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2023.04.17-04.18 Professor Hui-Yi Wang attended the International Conference on Advances in Higher Education (online). Published papers: Hui-Yi Wang, Shu-Mei Chen, Mei-Fang Liu: Evaluating the Learning Outcomes of Physical Therapy Clinical Fieldwork Course, and won the Best Presentation Award from the conference.（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2023.04.13-04.19 Professor Liang-Yin Ke of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology visited Professor Etsuro Ito of Waseda University for students’ internship program and discussing dual degree program between two schools.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2023.03.20-03.31 Two occupational therapy master's students from the University of Southern California (USC) in the United States visited our Department of Occupational Therapy for an exchange program. (Occupational Therapy)

  • 2023.03.16-03.23 Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences (IPUHS) in Japan (7 faculties and 6 students) visited our School of Health Sciences (Occupational Therapy/Physical Therapy) for an exchange program )visited our College of Health Sciences (Occupational Therapy/Physical Therapy) for an exchange program. (Occupational Therapy/Physical Therapy) 

  • 2023.02.06-02.10 A 5-day IPNFA certified workshop (Level II) was conducted by IPNFA certified instructor Atsushi Ishii during Feb 6-10, 2023. Fourteen trainees attended the training courses and were all awarded with the IPNFA certificates (Level I+II). (Department of Physical Therapy)
  • 2023.01.06-01.19 Dr SF Hsiao held a CPE OPTIMAL workshop for stroke rehabilitation in Vietnam under the global grant of Rotary International (VTT-GG2125902 2021-2024) for TPTA to support the professional development of PT in Vietnam. A MOU between TPTA and VNPTA; Dr Hsiao also presented the progress and structure of the CPE OPTIMAL in the ADMIRE workshop (supported by HI and USAID) held by World Physiotherapy there. Dr Hsiao also visited Hai Duong Medical Technical University for the collaboration of educational support of KMU via the USR funding.(Department of Physical Therapy)
  • 2022.12.26 Dr. Jo-Chi Jao invited Professor Cheng-Shie Wuu from Columbia University for international collaborative teaching (In--service master course, online teaching).Topic: Current Status of FLASH Radiation Dosimetry and the Role of 3D Dosimetry.（Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences）
  • 2022.12.23 Dr. Ming-Chung Chou invited Prof. Marc Potvin, Michener Institute of Health Sciences, Toronto, Canada to visit KMU and Department of Radiation Oncology, KMUH.（Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences）
  • 2022.12.19 Dr. Jo-Chi Jao invited Prof. Kwan Hoong Ng from University of Malaya, Malaysia for international collaborative teaching (undergraduate course, online teaching).Topic: Detection and measurement of x-ray and gamma rays.（Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences）
  • 2022.12.12-12.15 Dr. Wanchai Assavalapsakul from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand visited Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, KMU for research collaboration, and collaborative teaching to our graduate students.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2022.12.05 Dr. Tanapat Palaga, Dr. Sita Virakul from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand visited Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, KMU for research collaboration, and also gave special talks to our faculty members and students.（Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology）
  • 2022.11.30 Dr Shih-fen Hsiao attended the online meeting the Appeal Committee, World Physiotherapy.(Department of Physical Therapy)
  • 2022.11.13-12.15 Ting-Chieh Lai, Hsiang-Yu Wang and Guan-Jhu Chen from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology went to Professor Etsuro Ito’s laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry, Waseda University for Overseas Internship Program. (Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology)
  • 2022.11.09-12.04 Ph.D. student Shi Hui Law from department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology were invited to Cologne University in Germany for research collaboration. (Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology)
  • 2022.11.08-11.12 Ms. Kanako Iha, Ms. Akane Sato from the master program of Waseda University, Japan came to KMU for overseas internship program (Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology)
  • 2022.11.06-11.08 Students Shi Hui Law and Ting-Chieh Lai from department of Medical Laboratory Science participated the Cell Symposium: Multifaceted Mitochondria in Spain for poster presentation. (Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology)
  • 2022.11.05-11.13 Professor Liang-Yin Ke from department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology went to Professor Guenter Schwarz’s laboratory in the Institute for Biochemistry, Cologne University for research collaboration. (Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology)
  • 2022.11.03 Professor Wang Zhihong of Stanford University gave a speech on "Epidemic Prevention Technology and Epidemic Surveillance and Prevention" on November 3, which was co-organized by the Center for Global Health and Security Research, and Director Yawen Qiu assisted in inviting Professor Wang Zhihong to visit and give a speech.(Department of Public Health)
  • 2022.11.02-11.03  To enhance the students’ sensitivity of international health issues, Prof. Betty Ya-Wen Chiu invited Prof. Masamine Jimba from the University of Tokyo, Japan, and the former president of APACPH to deliver two speeches.(Department of Public Health)
    • On November 2nd：Prof. Masamine Jimba gave a lecture entitled "Infectious Disease and Global Health" based on his long-term research and practical experience in global health. His speech provided students with different global views on infectious diseases, which greatly broadened students' international vision.
    • On November 3rd：Prof. Masamine Jimba, as an expert who worked for WHO and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), gave a lecture on "Why I worked for WHO and JICA-a journey of humanitarian aid." Prof. Jimba shared plentiful precious practical experience and career path, including his works in Nepal, Vietnam, Cambodia, Palestine, and Jordan. All participants gave a high appraisal and positive feedback after the lecture.
  • 2022.10.26-11.27 I-Pei Chen from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology went to Professor Guenter Schwarz’s laboratory in the Institute for Biochemistry, Cologne University for Overseas Internship Program. (Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology) 
  • 2022.11.06-11.08 Students Shi Hui Law and Ting-Chieh Lai from department of Medical Laboratory Science join the Cell Symposium: Multifaceted Mitochondria in Spain(Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology)
  • 2022.10.31-12.02 Professor Liang-Yin Ke and Ph.D. student Shi Hui Law from department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology were invited to Cologne University in Germany for research collaboration. (Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology)
  • 2022.10.23 Dr Shih-fen Hsiao attended the Board Meeting of the Asian Confederation of Physical Therapy (ACPT) on behalf of TPTA.(Department of Physical Therapy)
  • 2022.10.01 Dr Shih-fen Hsiao hosted the online opening ceremony for the “Continuing Professional Education for Physical Therapist to Improve Physical Therapy Services in Vietnam” (CPE OPTIMAL) for Taiwan Physical Therapy Association. which was supported by the Rotary International Global Grant, Vocational Team Training Project. Participants included board members of TPTA and VNPTA, Governor and Presidents from Rotary International Districts 3482 and 3450, the CEO of World Physiotherapy Jonathan Kruger and the World Physiotherapy AWP Regional Chair Professor Suh-Fung Jeng.(Department of Physical Therapy)
  • 2022.09.22 Organized by Prof. Betty Ya-Wen Chiu, together with Vice Minister of Health, Dr. Chung-Liang Shih, Deputy Director-General, Health Promotion Administration, Dr. His-Lun Wei and KMU research team, went to Manila, Philippines to attend the 53rd Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Annual Conference, Executive Council Meeting, General Assembly and Dean's Meeting.
    The KMU research team also hosted an International Advisory Committee Consultation Meeting to discuss about the further cooperation on NCDs prevention with 7 scholars from Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, and Sri Lanka.
    We also held a parallel symposia with theme entitled: “Achieving SDG3: Promoting Good Health for All”. To start this international symposia, Dr. Chung-Liang Shih, Taiwan Vice Minister of Health, Dr. Agustin Kusumayati, President of APACPH, and Dr. Hung-Yi Chiou, Director of Collaborating Centres for Health Promotion were invited to give the opening remarks. We also invited experts and representatives from Singapore, Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines to deliver speeches on the following four dimensions: “Digital Transformation”, “NCD/DM Monitoring and Action”, “Maternal and Child Health,” and “Health Workforce”.
  • 2022.07.30-09.18 Shi Hui Law and Shao-Chi Hong from Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology joined the Oversea MLSB Internship program for research collaboration. Each student made a final oral presentation for their progress report and discussion.
  • 2022.08.21 Dr Shih-fen Hsiao was invited to the 1st Vietnam Physiotherapy Scientific Conference (online).（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2022.08.17 The 19th International Network of Health Promotion Foundations (INHPF) Annual Meeting was held by Taiwan Health Promotion Administration (HPA), Kaohsiung Medical University and CCHP team via a virtual meeting. The theme of this year was “Health Promotion Policy for Global Action”.
    We specially invited Dr. Suvajee Good, Regional Advisor for Health Promotion and Social Determinants of Health, WHO South-East Asia Regional Office to be our keynote speaker and gave a speech on “The Importance and Direction of Health Promotion in the 21st Century”. Meanwhile, we also invited experts from Western Australia, Thailand, Korea, Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) and Prof. Kuo-Liong Chien from National Taiwan University (NTU), as well as Prof. Chih-Cheng Hsu from National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), representing Taiwan. By sharing the implementation of health promotion policies and the experiences from different countries, hoping that can enhance the competency of health promotion agencies and to achieve a sustainable society that is equal and healthy for all the public.
    A total of 244 participants attended this event and 97% of them shown the high satisfaction with this meeting.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2022.08.13 Dr Shih-fen Hsiao presented the CPE OPTIMAL project of Taiwan Physical Therapy Association to the Vietnam delegates in the final discussion session of the “2022 Taiwan-Vietnam Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Assistive Technology Care Training Cooperation Program”.（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2022.07.27 Ying-Chun Chou, Ming-De Chen, Shu-Ping Chen, Associate Professor (Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Alberta) and Shaniff Esmail (Director of Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Alberta) held an online meeting discussing the potential MORU between two departments. （Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2022.06.30  Shih-Huai Hsiao Director and Pei-Shih Chen Ph.D. attended to 2022 Post COVID-19 Health Care and Research Trend in Asia-Pacific Symposium.（Department of Public Health）
    • Pei-Shih Chen Ph.D.
    • Moderator, Shih-Huai Hsiao Director gave the speech of The Effectiveness of Social Media in Health Care during the Pandemic
  • 2022.06.26-07.05 Chang-Chih Kuo visited the South California University, USA, for the MOE Scholarship for Excellent Students to Study Abroad or Overseas Internship Training and discussion for future academic collaboration（Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2022.06.20 Prof. Betty Ya-Wen Chiu was invited as a panelist at the online expert seminar “Multifaceted Security Dilemmas: Polish and Taiwanese Perspectives” hosted by The Prospect Foundation, Polish Institute of International Affairs, and Institute for National Defense and Security Research.（Department of Public Health）
  • 2022.06.18-06.20 Dr WANG,HUI-YI attended (online) World Physiotherapy-AWP Regional Congress 2022 and the Best poster presentation was awarded to her. Her seminar poster: Daily living activities and participation in children and adolescents with spinal muscular atrophy) was award the Best poster presentation.（Department of Physical Therapy）
  • 2022.06.17 Yu-Sheng Yang and 27 junior students from KMU with collaboration with Prof. Shiraishi from Ibaraki Prefectural University of Medical Sciences, Japan, and his 13 students, held an online final project presentation on 6 medical 3D printing products. （Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2022.06.16 Dr Shih-fen Hsiao delivered a stakeholder’s report in the World Physiotherapy’s Adaptive Project Workshop in Vietnam. （Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2022.06.13-06.16  Pei-Shih Chen Ph.D, CHIA-LIN CHANG, and CHUEH-LUNG CHEN attended to Asian Aerosol Conference.（Department of Public Health）
    • Pei-Shih Chen, Chair of Bioaerosol I
    • Pei-Shih Chen Ph.D- Bioaerosol I, Jia-Lin Zhang, Zi-Yu Chen, Pei-Shih Chen* （2022）Ambient avian Influenza Virus in the Stopover Sites of Migratory Birds. Asian Aerosol Conference (AAC), Jun 12-16 2022 (oral),
    • Jue-Long Chen, Jia Lin Zhang, Guan-Yu Liao, Pei-Shih Chen* (2022) The Health Effect after the Intervention of Air Purifier for Asthma Patients in the Household.  Asian Aerosol Conference (AAC), Jun 12-16 2022 (oral)
  • 2022.06.07 Shu-Ping Chen, Associate Professor (Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Alberta) addressed an international speech，Topic: Suicide prevention and crisis intervention: enabling effective coping at the population and individual levels. （Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2022.06.06 Shu-Ping Chen, Associate Professor (Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Alberta) and Ying-Chun Chou held an international co-teaching, Topic: The role of occupational therapy in advancing school mental health （Department of Occupational Therapy）
  • 2022.05.31 Prof. Cheng-Shie Wuu, Radiation Oncology, Columbia University, NY, USA. Topic: A Review of Clinical Physics in Current Radiotherapy. 
  • 2022.05.24 Prof. Kwan Hoong Ng, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Lecture title: Abstract writing for thesis and scientific paper (In--service master program, online)
  • 2022.05.23 Prof. Kwan Hoong Ng, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Lecture title: Quality assurance program in radiology - overview and progress (Bachelor program, online)
  • 2022.05.13 Prof. Kwan Hoong Ng, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Lecture title: Highlights of some technological developments during the COVID-19 Pandemic. (Bachelor program, online)
  • 2022.05.02 Prof. Kwan Hoong Ng, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Lecture title: Abstract writing, poster and oral presentation for conference (Master program, online)
  • 2022.03.26 Dr Shih-fen Hsiao gave a talk in the ‘Multinational Online Exchange Webinar’ organized by the Japanese Physical Therapy Association (JPTA) and served as one of the panelists among JPTA, APTA and KPTA, for discussing ‘Evolving the Role of Physical Therapists in Public Health’.
  • 2022.03.14 Prof. Min-Ying Lydia Su, University of California, Irvine, USA. Topic:  Artificial Intelligence-Based Imaging Analysis for Precision Clinical Management.
  • 2022.03.10 Dr Shih-fen Hsiao attended the 10th ISEAPT Board Meeting as representative of Taiwan Physical therapy Association.
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