Expertise at Chang Gung System

Kuo, Han-Pin ,M.D.,Ph.D.
Intitution: Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital/Chang Gung University
Position: Director of Department of Internal Medicine/Airway Disease physician /Professor of physician
Mail Address:199 Tun Hwa North Road, Taipei, Taiwan
Tel: 03-328 1200 ext. 8467
Fax:03-327 2474
E-mail: q8828@ms11.hinet.net

Focus of Interest:
  • Pulmonary Physiology
  • Pulmonary Medicine
  • Critical Care medicine
  • Lung Cancer
  • Interventional bronchoscopy
Employment Record:

  • 1980-1981 Internship, McKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei

  • 1981-1983 Military service, Navy

  • 1983-1987 Residentship, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei

  • 1987-1989 Fellowship, Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei

  • 1989- Attending physician, Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei

  • 1995- Chief of the Second Division of Chest Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei

  • 2003-2010 Director, Department of Thoracic Medicine, Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei

  • 2009-2011 Deputy Director of Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei

  • 2011- Director of Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei

Education:

1975-1981 Bachelor of Medicine, Taipei Medical College, Taipei

1989-1991 Doctor of Philosophy, Clinical Pharmacology, University of London, London, U.K.

 

Member of Editorial Board (SCI Journals)

Cough                     

Frontier of Pharmcotherapy of Respiratory Disease


Full Publication List


Honor and Awards:

1.Best Resident of Chang Gung Memorial Hospital 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989

2.Best teaching staff of Chang Gung Medical College 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998.

3.Award of Biomedical Science of Chang Gung Hospital 1988

4.Award of Oversea Research Student, British Medical Council, 1990

5.Awards of Bioscience Research, National Science Council 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003

6.Outstanding research award, National Science Council (傑出獎) 2004-2006

7.Outstanding Scholar, National Science Council (傑出學者) 2008, 2009, 2010

8.Outstanding research award, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital 2012, 2013

Research grants (Principal Investigator):

Duration

Study subject

Granting body

2011/08/01~

2014/07/31

Mechanisms underlying the enhanced proliferation capacity and connective tissue matrix production of fibrocytes from chronic obstructive asthma patients

National Science Council

(100-2314-B-182A-085-MY3)

 NT 3,300,000

2008/8/1~

2011/10/31

Mechanism for NF-kB induced NF-kB repression factor

National Science Council

(97-2314-B-182-024-MY3)

NT  4,436,000

2007/8/1~

2011/1/31

Role of circulating fibrocyte in patients with chronic obstructive asthma

National Science Council

(96-2628-B-182-022-MY3)

NT 3,300,000

2004/8/1~

2006/7/31

Role of NF-kB repression factor and Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors in neutrophil elastase induced inhibitory effect on IL-8 synthesis from airway smooth muscle cells

National Science Council

(93-2314-B-182-043)

 NT 2,793,200

2002/8/1~

2004/7/31

Mechanism for bone marrow derived progenitor cell transmigration through endothelial cells in asthma patients

National Science Council

(91-2314-B-182-071)

 NT 2,091,600

2001/8/1~

2003/7/31

Mechanisms for neutrophil elastase induced proliferation and phenotype change in airway smooth muscle cells

National Science Council

(90-2314-B-182-048)

 NT 2,388,000

2000/8/1~

2001/7/31

Signal pathways for Bcl-2 synthesis in bone marrow derived progenitor cell in asthma

National Science Council

(89-2314-B-182-109) NT 926,709

1998/8/1~

2000/7/31

Role of sensory neuropeptide in modulation of airway inflammation

National Science Council

(87-2314-B-182-050-M41)

NT 2,233,821

1997/8/1~

1999/1/31

Hyperoxia induces endogenous oxygen radicals to modulate neutrophil infiltration and adherence to epithelial cells in airways

National Science Council

(86-2314-B-182-25)

 NT 699,755

1995/8/1~

1997/3/31

Differential effect of oxygen radical in modulation of nitric oxide between airway and lung parenchyma

National Science Council

(85-2331-B-182-013)

 NT 667,896

1994/8/1~

1996/2/28

Effect of TNF-a and IL-1 on mucus secretion from airway goblet cells

National Science Council

(85-2331-B-182-012)

NT 607,000

1993/2/1~

1994/7/31

Effect of endogenous nitric oxide on vascular permeability in airway

National Science Council

(85-0115-B-182-086)

NT 649,800

1992/2/1~

1993/1/31

Modulatory mechanism for airway mucus secretion

National Science Council

(85-0412-B-182A-507)

NT 460,000