TEACHER
Date:26 July (Friday)
Time:11:50 – 12:15 (GMT+8)
Vice Superintendent, Research and Development
Taipei Medical University Hospital
Dr. Chou received an M.D. degree from the National Yang-Ming Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan in 1984. After the anatomical pathology residency training at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital, he went to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and received a Ph.D. degree in Biochemistry in 1995. In his thesis work advised by Professor Gerald Hart and Professor Chi Dang, Dr. Chou provided the evidence of O-GlcNAc glycosylation of the oncoprotein c-Myc. From 1999 to 2001, he completed an anatomic pathology residency at the Washington University Medical Center/Barnes-Jewish Hospital and, from 2001 to 2002, a Calendar Binford Clinical Fellowship in Pulmonary Pathology with Professor William D. Travis in the Department of Pulmonary and Mediastinal Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology. In 2002, Dr. Chou resumed an attending pathologist position at the Taipei Veterans General Hospital. From 2014 to 2017, Dr. Chou was President of the Taiwan Society of Pathology as well as the Taiwan Division of International Academy of Pathology. Since 2014, Dr. Chou has been a member of the Pathology Committee of International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). In 2016, Dr. Chou received a master degree in Business Administration from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. From 2017 to 2022, Dr. Chou was Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital. Currently Dr. Chou is Director of Precision Medicine Research Center and Vice Superintendent for Research and Development of Taipei Medical University Hospital and Professor of the Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei Medical University.
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