Expertise at Chang Gung System

Chen, Chih-Ken ,M.D.,Ph.D.
Intitution:Keelung chang gung memorial hospital
Position: Attending Psychiatrist
Department: Department of psychiatryy
Address: No.200, Lane 208, Jijin 1st Rd., Anle District, Keelung City 204, Taiwan (R.O.C)
Tel: +886-2-24329292 #2725
E-mail: kenchen@cgmh.org.tw

Focus of Interest :
  • Psychiatry

Fulltime Employment:
  1. 2011 – Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan
  2. 2006 – 2011 Chief and Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan
  3. 2006 – 2008 Assistant Principle Invesitgator, Division of Mental Health & Drug Abuse Research, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
  4. 2001 – 2006 Chief and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan
  5. 1996 – 2001 Visiting Specialist, Department of Psychiatry, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Taiwan
  6. 1991 – 1996 Residency & fellowship in the Department of Adult Psychiatry, Taipei City Psychiatric Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Education:
  • Oct, 1998 – Dec, 2001 PhD, Division of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, University of London, UK
  • Oct, 1984 – May, 1991 Department of Medicine, National Yang Ming Medical College, Taipei, Taiwan

Selected Main Publications:
  1. Wang LJ, Chen CK* (Joint first author), Hsu HJ, Wu IW, Sun CY, Lee CC. Depression, 5HTTLPR and BDNF Val66Met polymorphisms, and plasma BDNF levels in hemodialysis patients with chronic renal failure. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment. (In Press)
  2. Chen CH, Lee CS, Lee MT, Ouyang WC, Chen CC, Chong MY, Wu JY, Tan HK, Lee YC, Chuo LJ, Chiu NY, Tsang HY, Chang TJ, Lung FW, Chiu CH, Chang CH, Chen YS, Hou YM, Chen CC, Lai TJ, Tung CL, Chen CY, Lane HY, Su TP, Feng J, Lin JJ, Chang CJ, Teng PR, Liu CY, Chen CK, Liu IC, Chen JJ, Lu T, Fan CC, Wu CK, Li CF, Wang KH, Wu LS, Peng HL, Chang CP, Lu LS, Chen YT, Cheng AT; Taiwan Bipolar Consortium. Variant GADL1 and response to lithium therapy in bipolar I disorder. N Engl J Med. 2014 Jan 9;370(2):119-28.
  3. Chen YC, Chen CK (Joint first author), Lin SK, Chiang SC, Su LW, Wang LJ*. Health care service utilization and associated factors among heroin users in northern Taiwan. Addictive Behaviors. 2013; 38(11):2635-2638.
  4. Wang LJ, Ree SC, Huang YS, Hsiao CC, Chen CK*. Adjunctive effects of aripiprazole on metabolic profiles: Comparison of patients treated with olanzapine to patients treated with other atypical antipsychotic drugs. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 2013 Jan 10;40:260-6.
  5. Wang LJ, Lin SK, Chiang SC, Su LW, Chen CK*. Risk Factors for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, and Syphilis among Heroin Users in Northern Taiwan. Substance Use & Misuse. 2013 Jan;48(1-2):89-98.
Full Publication List

Board Certification:
 (1)  Taiwan Society of Psychiatry