Wayne Huey-Herng Sheu MD, PhD

Vice President
National Health Research Institutes

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Prof. Wayne H-H Sheu MD, PhD is the Vice President (VP) and distinguished investigator of National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in Taiwan. Before he joined NHRI, he had served as superintendent of Taichung Veterans General Hospital and Taipei Veterans General Hospital, two outstanding and major medical centers in Taiwan. Dr. Sheu holds several adjunct and consulting professor of medical universities in Taiwan. He had been the president of Diabetes Association, Taiwan, as well as the chair of Western Pacific Region of International Diabetes foundation (IDF).  
 
Dr. Sheu had many good connections with diabetes experts locally and internationally.  Recently, he had heavily engaged in Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative (TPMI), sponsored by Academia Sinica, had successfully enrolled half millions participants from 16 major hospitals and had completed genotyping arrays and enriched electronic medical records.  He has served as chair of steering committee of TPMI.  Currently, he has led a diabetes team with diabetologists, diabetes educators and dieticians to conduct precision diabetes education based on prediction models of diabetes complications.
   
Professor Sheu has authored and co-authored more than 550 articles and numerous lay articles covering various areas such as diabetes, endocrinology, hypertension, obesity and coronary heart disease. He is also a reviewer for many scientific journals.


 

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