Chung Y. Hsu

This podcast is an interview with the esteemed stroke researcher and clinician Dr. Chung Y. Hsu. He was interviewed by Carmen Lahiff-Jenkins, Managing Editor of the International Journal of Stroke.  

Dr. Chung Y. Hsu is the CEO of the China Medical University Healthcare System, and Chair Professor at China Medical University. Dr. Hsu received a number of academic achievement awards in the US, including NIH-NINDS Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award; NIH-NINDS Teacher-Investigator Development Award; Vivian L. Smith Foundation Distinguished Research Award; Taiwanese-American Foundation Award, 1997. He was the chair of 12 NIH special committees or review teams and 2 American Heart Association review committees and Washington University PI in 32 multi-center or multinational clinical trials in stroke.

Dr. Hsu’s key appointments include President of Taipei Medical University (2002 – 2008), President of Taiwan Neuroscience Society, President of Taiwan Stroke Society. He was the PI of the Department of Health Clinical Trial and Research Center of Excellence for Stroke and Traumatic Head Injury at Taipei Medical University (2006 – 2010) and is the PI of the Department of Health Clinical Trial and Research Center of Excellence for Stroke at China Medical University. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the National Health Research Institute, Taiwan. and Institute for Biotechnology and Medicine Industry (IBMI). Dr. Hsu has been serving as the Chair of the Review Committee for the IBMI Symbol of National Quality Awards for hospitals and clinics.

He also served as the Chair of the Review Committee for the Taipei Biotechnology Awards in 2006 and 2009. Dr. Hsu established the Taiwan Stroke Registry which is currently the second largest stroke registry database in the world and a study that assessed 30,599 stroke admissions in 38 hospitals island wide between 2006 and 2008. Dr. Hsu has published more than 290 research articles including those that appeared in Science, JAMA and other top journals and served as editor or co-editor of 5 monographs on stroke and related neurovascular disorders.