Hsin-Su Yu, M.D., Ph.D.
Prof. Hsin-Su Yu, the fourth President, is a renowned dermatologist with an excellent track record of international interaction and collaboration. President Yu graduated from Kaohsiung Medical University (then Kaohsiung Medical College) in 1973, and received his D.M.Sc in 1980 from the University of Tokyo, Japan. He received the prestigious U.S. National Institutes of Health Fogarty Fellowship for conducting specialized research in the Laboratory for Investigative Dermatology at Rockefeller University in New York from 1984 to 1986. President Yu is well known for his research accomplishments in the areas of vitiligo and chronic arsenic poisoning. He received the award for Outstanding Scientist of the National Science Council in 2000-2001 and 2004-2006.
President Yu holds positions in various prestigious professional societies. Among his committee appointment, President Yu has been the president of Taiwanese Dermatological Association from 1985 to 1987 and from 2003 until present, and president of Taiwanese Society for Investigative Dermatology beginning 2006. Internationally, President Yu was a board member of the prestigious Journal of Dermatological Science in 2000 and as a member of the International Advisory Committee of Journal of Dermatology in 2004. Further, President Yu has been a board member of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, the Journal of Dermatology Science and the Journal of Formosa Medical Association since 2004.
President Yu brought up his ideal of “Teaching Excellence, Innovative Research, Quality Humanism and Social Caring” when he took office. He has strong desire to raise the status of Kaohsiung Medical University into a research-oriented university and has taken up the responsibility of cultivating medical-related students with full-fledged knowledge, skills and competency and then becoming the essential in the health industry all over the world.
PROFILE
NAME: Hsin-Su Yu, M.D., D.M.Sc.
DATE OF BIRTH: September 3, 1946
CITIZEN: Taiwan
CURRENT POSITION: President, Kaohsiung Medical University
Professor of Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine
Kaohsiung Medical University
EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
1972 M.D., Kaohsiung Medical College, Taiwan
1980 D.M.Sc., University of Tokyo, Japan
1984-1986 NIH Fogarty Fellow, Laboratory for Investigative Dermatology, Rockefeller University, U.S.A.
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS AND ACTIVITIES:
1973-1975 Resident, Department of Dermatology,
Kaohsiung Medical College Hospital
1975-1981 Resident and Research Fellow, Department of Dermatology,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo
1981-1985 Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology,
Kaohsiung Medical College
1985-2003 Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology,
Kaohsiung Medical University
1995- Member of Advisory Committee, Section of Environmental and Occupational Diseases, National Health Research Institute
1997-2001 Chairman, Section of Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology and Plastic Surgery, National Science Council, T
1997-2001 Member of International Advisory Committee,
Archives of Dermatology
1999 President, the 22nd Meeting of the Pacific Skin Research club
2000- Member of International Advisory Committee,
Journal of Dermatology
2000- Member of Advisory Committee, Office of Extramural Affairs,
National Health Research Institute
2000-2001 Outstanding Scientist, National Science Council
2001 Chairperson, Japan-Taiwan Atopic Disease Workshop (Tokyo)
2003- Board member, Journal of Formosan Medical Association
2003- Member of Advisory Committee, Office of Consultant,
Ministry of Education
2003- Consultant, Ministry of Education
2003 Professor, Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine,
National Taiwan University
2004-2006 Professor and Chairman, Department of Dermatology
College of Medicine, National Taiwan University
2004- Board member, Journal of Dermatological Science
2004- Board member, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology
2004-2006 Outstanding Scientist, National Science Council
2005 President, the 23rd Meeting of the Pacific Skin Research Club
AREAS OF SPECIAL INTEREST:
Vitiligo, Chronic arsenical poisoning, Microcirculation
More than 270 periodical articles have been published.
