Yee-Chun Chen is Professor of Medicine at the National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine in Taipei, Taiwan. She is the president of Infection Control Society of Taiwan, and serves as a consultant or committee member at the Ministry of Health and Welfare, CDC, TFDA, and Taipei City Government. She currently co-chairs a national antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control program sponsored by Taiwan CDC.
Professor Chen started her clinical service in 1992 at the National Taiwan University Hospital, and currently serves as a professorial lecturer in infectious diseases, infection control, COVID-19, infectious diseases in immunocompromised hosts, antimicrobial stewardship, travel medicine and emerging infectious diseases at the National Taiwan University College of Medicine.
She is one of the nation's leaders in infection control, adult vaccination, and medical mycology. Prof Chen’s research focus includes infection control and hospital epidemiology, antibiotic stewardship and antibiotic resistance, medical informatics, clinical and molecular mycology including one health perspective of drug-resistant Aspergillus and Candida infection. She is PI or co-PI of a series of multicenter, clinical and molecular epidemiological studies of infectious diseases in Taiwan as well in Asia. Her dedication to medical research has resulted in more than 350 peer-reviewed journal articles. She is listed in the top 2% scientist in world ranking 2020. Her researcher's profile is available at https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/cris/rp/rp06583/otherinfo.html.