Expertise at Chang Gung System

Yeh, Kun-Yun , M.D. ,Ph.D.
Intitution: Keelung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Position: Director /Associated professor
Department: Department of Internal Medicine/ Division of Hematology-Oncology
Address:200, Lane 208, Jijin 1st Road, Keelung 20445, Taiwan
Tel:(02)-24329292 ext. 2360 Fax: (02)-24315273
E-mail: yeh0304@cgmh.org.tw

Focus of Interest:
  • Medicine, General & Internal
  • Oncology

Fulltime Employment:
  1. 2012-present Chang-Chung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan Director, Department of Internal Medicine
  2. 2006-present Chang-Chung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan Attending Physician, Division of Hemato-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine
  3. 2004-2006 Poh-Ai Hospital, I-Lan, Taiwan Vice Dean, Lo-Hsu Memorial Cancer Center
  4. 2002-2006 Poh-Ai Hospital, I-Lan, Taiwan Chairman, Division of Hemato-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine
  5. 2002-2004 Chang-Chung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan Attending Physician, Division of Hemato-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine
Education:
  • 1994-1997 University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA Ph.D. Immunology
  • 1992-1994 University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA M.S. Immunology
  • 1990-1992 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA M.P.H. Epidemiology

Honors and Awards:
1) The Annual Best Teaching Resident Award of Department of Internal Medicine at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in 2000 and 2001
2) The Annual Best Chart Writing Award of Department of Internal Medicine at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in 2007

Selected Main Publications:
  1. Yeh, K-Y., Wang, H-M., Chang, J W-C., Huang, J-S., Lai, C-H., Lan, Y-J., Wu, T-H., Wang, H., Wu, C-J., Hsia, S., Wang, C-H. “The Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acid-, Micronutrient-, and Probiotics-enriched Nutrition on Body Weight in Head and Neck Cancer CachexiaOral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology 2013;116:41-48
  2. Ying-Ying Li, John, W-C Chang, Ling-Ling Hsieh , Shu-Mei Chen, Kun-Yun Yeh*. “Low-dose zoledronic acid reduces spinal cord metastasis in pulmonary adenocarcinoma with neuroendocrine differentiation” Anti-Cancer Drug. 2012, 23:970-8 (Correspondence)
  3. Pei-Hung Chang, Cheng-Hsu Wang., Jen-Seng Huang, Chien-Hong Lai, Tsung-Han Wu, Yii-Jeng Lan, Chien-Sheng Tsai, Eric Yen-Chao Chen, Shih-Wei Yang, and Kun-Yun Yeh*, “Low body mass index at 3 months following adjuvant chemoradiation affects survival of postoperative locally advanced oral cavity cancer patients in an area endemic for betel quid chewing”. Laryngoscope 2012, 122:2193-8 (Correspondence)
  4. Wang, C-H, Wang, H-M, Pang, Y-P, Yeh, K-Y*. “ Early Nutrition Support in Non-metastatic Stage IV Oral Cavity Cancer Patients Undergoing Adjuvant Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy: Analysis of Treatment Tolerance and Outcome in an Area Endemic for Betel-Quid Chewing” Supportive Care in Cancer. 2012, 20:1169-1174 (correspondence)
  5. Wu, T-H., Shih, C-W., Huang, J-S., Wang, C-H., Yeh, K-Y*. “Unusual Hematogenous Brain Metastasis in Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of the Maxillary Sinus” Internal Journal of Clinical Oncology. 2012 17 (1): 69-74 (correspondence)
Full Publication List

Board Certification:
1. February,1996 Board of The Breast Cancer Society of Taiwan NO:0332
2. September,1997 Board of Taiwan Society of Cancer Palliative Medicine NO: 0089
3. November, 2002 Board of Chinese Oncology Society, Certification NO:91010
4. October, 2000 Board of Taiwan Society of Internal Medicine, Certification NO:005669
5. July, 1989 Board of Physician, Certification NO:018723

Ongoing projects:
- The effect of chemotherapy on fat metabolism using zebrafish disease models : a novel animal model studying fat metabolism in cachexia
- The effect of PD-1 and PD-L1 on the mechanisms whereby colon cancer cells modulates function and differentiation of tumor –associated macrophages