The first and third dean of the College of Medicine of National Taiwan University, Dr. C. C. To (1945.12-1947.3; 1948.7-1953.7)
In 1922, Dr. C. C. To (1945.12-1947.3; 1948.7-1953.7)
When Dr. C. C. To (1945.12-1947.3; 1948.7-1953.7)
was conferred the degree of Doctor of Medicine by the Kyoto Imperial University in Kyoto, he was the first expatriate to be awarded a doctorate of medicine by the Imperial University of Japan.In October 1922, he returned to Taiwan from Kyoto to become a professor of medicine, and was an authority on snake venom and opium addiction statistics and Chinese medicine research in Taiwan.
After the restoration of Taiwan, Dr. Du was twice appointed Dean of the College of Medicine at National Taiwan University, and added the Departments of Pharmacy and Dentistry at National Taiwan University, contributing significantly to the training of medical personnel. Dr. Du was dedicated to medical education in the spirit of "pharmacy first, research first," and formulated the medical education system in Taiwan, believing that students should have the spirit of learning first and researching first. In addition to strict management of the students, he also loved the students and tried to contact them, listen to their opinions and give them help.
In terms of faculty recruitment, Dr. Du tried his best to retain outstanding professors, and created a public memorial service to express his condolences and gratitude to the donors. Dr. Du has deep expectations for the medical profession, and hopes that medical colleagues will take the study of medicine as a joy, recognize the "fear of life and dignity of life" advocated by Mr. Schweitzer, and respect any life, regardless of the rich or poor, high or low status, and whether or not a gift is given, and use the same kind heart to do their best to treat their illnesses and sufferings, and take a sincere attitude toward the study of medicine, and give full play to their specialties in order to promote the advancement of medicine and the enhancement of the health of mankind. The second dean, Dr. Yan Zhi-zhong (1947), was appointed as the first dean. The second dean, Yan Zhi-Jong (1947.4-1948.6)
Graduated with a bachelor's degree in medicine from Teikoku University in Tokyo, Japan in 1915, he was the director of the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Beijing and the principal of the Military Medical School of the Ministry of War and Politics, and he was appointed as a professor of bacteriology at NTU's School of Medicine in 1947, and he took over as the dean of the School of Medicine the same year, and the Department of Medicine was designated to be six-year in duration, with an additional Institute for Physiological Sciences and an Institute for Pathological Research. The fourth dean, Wei Huoyao (1953.8-1972.7)
We received our Doctor of Medicine degree from Tokyo Teikoku University in 1942, and in 1953, we succeeded Du Zhiqing as dean of NTU's School of Medicine. During his 19 years in office, Taiwan's medical education was transformed from a full-time system, with vigorous efforts to cultivate talent, hire foreign consultants with U.S. aid to assist in innovation, send professors to the U.S. for further training, and actively improve teaching equipment to enhance the quality of teaching.
In order to cope with the shortage of medical manpower, nursing, medical technology, rehabilitation medicine and other departments were established, and the construction of research laboratories in various departments was begun, with the establishment of eight research institutes and three doctoral programs. In order to improve the standard of clinicians and to strive for the academic status of the domestic medical profession in the international arena, he founded the Pediatrics Medical Association, and in his capacity as chairman of the Medical Association, he recommended the introduction of the polio vaccine Sabin to the authorities.
Because of his outstanding clinical and academic achievements, he was elected a member of the Academia Sinica in 1968, and after stepping down from his position as dean in 1972, he served as provost of National Taiwan University for more than seven years, where he was committed to modernizing the university's affairs until his retirement in 1979. As a result of his efforts during his tenure, medical education in the country went from budding to thriving, from colonization to localization, laid the foundation of basic medicine, established the integrity of the clinical system, and single-handedly promoted healthcare-related public welfare. The fifth dean, Dr. Li Zhen-yuan (1972.8-1978.7)
Dr. Li received his doctorate in medicine from Taipei Imperial University in 1945. He devoted himself to the study of pharmacology for 30 years, and because of the practical needs of Taiwan, he made great achievements in the pharmacological study of snake venom and neurotoxins. The Institute of Pharmacology of National Taiwan University under his leadership has been listed as one of the major centers for international snake venom research, and he was elected as an Academician of Academia Sinica's Biology Group in 1970.
The Dean of the College of Medicine was appointed in 1972, and after taking office, in order to reform the part-time job, practice, and acceptance of red packets, he not only pushed the "full-time attendance system" with all his might, but also hired senior professors to form the "College of Medicine Reform Committee," in the hope of reforming the College of Medicine of NTU in a drastic way. In addition, during the annual freshman training, he made sure to tell the medical students that "the gift of a doctor is to help the patients, not to make money, and if anyone wants to make money, they should transfer to other departments", which made a deep impression on the medical students.
In 1976, he was honored with the Redi Award from the International Society of Toxicology. In 1986, he retired from the National Taiwan University School of Medicine as an honorary professor. During his school years, Li Chun-yuan was a keen reader of extracurricular books. In a Japanese novel he read in middle school, there was a passage that he would never forget: "Since a man has come to this world, he should realize his ideals and leave his footprints on the earth," which later became his motto. The sixth dean, Peng Ming-chung (1978.8-1983.7)
He received his bachelor's degree in medicine from the Imperial University of Taipei in 1945, and was a professor of pharmacology at NTU's School of Medicine from 1951.
Long-term research on reproduction and childbearing; contributed a lot to the study of the differentiation and aging of the neonatal rat's inferior colliculus and the subcerebral genital function; published research results, which were confirmed by British and American scholars, and was elected as an academician of the Academia Sinica in 1978; took over the deanship of the College of Medicine in 1978, and during the tenure, he set up the Graduate School of Clinical Medicine; abolished the integrated teaching system of the Clinical Medicine Course and restored the independent teaching of each subject; established the Post-Baccalaureate Program; and set up the Institute of Clinical Medicine. In 1978, he became the dean of the School of Medicine and established the Institute of Clinical Medicine. The seventh dean, Yang Sibiao (1983.8-1985.7)
Dr. Yang received his doctorate from Niigata University, Japan in 1953. He is a well-known authority in thoracic internal medicine in China, and is especially good at interpreting lung X-rays, and has unique skills and contributions to the research, diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis and lung cancer.
In 1983, he took over the presidency of the hospital, implemented the special duty system in the annexed hospital (August 1984), and completed the editing of "Forty Years in Fengcheng," and retired honorably in 1989. However, the spirit of service to the hospital was still intact, and he contributed his education and decades of experience in medical administration and went to Hualien to take charge of the Buddhist Tzu Chi Nursing College, to preside over the affairs of the school, and to cultivate a new army of nurses. The eighth dean, Yang Zhaoxiong (1985.8-1987.7)
In 1960, he received his doctorate in medicine from Matsumoto Medical University in Japan. In 1982, he was awarded the Executive Yuan's Outstanding Science and Technology Honor Award for his research on the "Expression of EBV genes in nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells of nude mice".
Professor Yang brings two lunch boxes with him every day and researches into the night, and he is a follower of the old Dean Du's principle of "research first, enjoyment of learning first".
His motto is: life is about service, and he tries to give as much as he can without expecting anything in return. After he became dean of NTU's School of Medicine, he paid special attention to basic medical research and tried to raise funds for it, promising to pave the way for the development of the School of Medicine. The ninth dean, Huang Bo-chao (1987.8-1991.7)
Dr. Huang received his doctorate from the Jikei University of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, in 1958, and has been a professor in the Department of Biochemistry at NTU's College of Medicine since 1968. He was awarded the Ministry of Education's Academic Prize in 1979 for his research on the protein requirement of the nation, the general state of nutrition, and the nutritional value of foods unique to China.
The Dean of the College of Medicine, who took over in 1987, has established a faculty re-evaluation and reappointment system to improve the teaching, research, and service levels of the faculty, and has established a Faculty Evaluation Committee, which evaluates professors, associate professors, and lecturers every four years from the date of their appointment, and then every two years thereafter.
Those with poor overall performance are urged to make improvements within two years, and those who have not made improvements by the end of that period may be asked not to be reappointed if one-half or more of the committee members agree. The tenth dean, Dr. Wei-Chao Chen (1991.8-1993.6)
Dr. Chen received his M.D. from Tohoku University in Japan in 1973 and his M.P.H. from Johns Hopkins University in 1989, and he has been a professor at NTU's School of Medicine since 1983.
In 1979, his successful operation to divide a conjoined boy with sciatica attracted much attention both at home and abroad.
The Dean of the College of Medicine, who took over in 1991, set up the "Faculty Advisory Committee" in order to improve the overall development of the College, to promote the improvement of the College, and to assist the Dean in the promotion of the College's affairs. In June 1993, he was promoted to President of National Taiwan University. The eleventh president, Hsieh Kui-hsiung (1993.11-1994.7)
Graduated from the Department of Medicine of National Taiwan University in 1965, he served as a researcher at the Second Institute of Medical Research of the U.S. Navy from 1968 to 1971, and was appointed as a professor of pediatrics at the College of Medicine of National Taiwan University from 1982 onwards.
In 1993, he was selected by the Dean's Selection Committee as the 11th Dean of the School of Medicine. During his term of office, in order to protect the rights and interests of the faculty and to promote harmony, he proposed to set up a Faculty Grievance Review Committee to review the grievance cases of the faculty members of the School of Medicine. In 1996, he became the director of the Chang Gung Children's Hospital and the Chang Gung Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and was committed to the integration of Chinese and Western medicine and the education of traditional Chinese medicine. The twelfth dean, Dr. Bo-Sheng Hsieh (1995.8-2001.7)
Graduated from the Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1967, and received his M.D. degree from Tokyo Medical University (TMU) in 1974, and has served as a professor of internal medicine at NTU's School of Medicine since 1983.
Dean Hsieh served as Acting Dean from August to October 1993 and from August 1994 to July 1995, and was selected as the twelfth Dean by the Dean's Selection Committee in August 1995.
Dean Hsieh has been committed to improving the teaching system, beautifying the campus, integrating academic research, improving the quality of education, promoting the spirit of humanism, preserving and restoring the Second Hall, planning and preparing for the construction of a conference center and medical research center building, and a pharmacy and medical research center building. The preservation and restoration of Hall 2, the planning and construction of the Conference Center and Medical Research Center, and the Pharmacy and Nursing Building have all contributed to the development of the College as a cradle of education that combines medical science and the humanities. Thirteenth President Ting-Hsin Chen (2001.8 -2007.7)
Director Ting-Hsin Chen graduated from the College of Medicine of National Taiwan University in 1968, and was engaged in the study of hepatocellular carcinoma and hepatitis at the National Cancer Center Research Institute in Japan in 1975, and served as a Visiting Scientist at the Hepatitis Virus Unit of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1979 to 1980. Scientist), Professor of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University since 1983, Director of the Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital from 1987 to 2001, and Director of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatobiliary and Gallbladder Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital since 1996, he is internationally renowned in the research of hepatitis and hepatocellular carcinoma, and he was elected as an academician in the Academia Sinica in 1992, and was elected as the president of the World Association for the Study of the Liver (WASL) in 2004. In 1992, he was elected Academician of Academia Sinica, and in 2004, he became President of the World Association for the Study of the Liver (IASL), and in 2005, he was elected as an overseas member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Selected by the Dean Search Committee in August 2001 as the thirteenth Dean of the Hospital, he has been committed to continuing to improve the quality of medical education, to train quality healthcare professionals to serve the community, and to prepare our graduates to lead the medical profession for the benefit of mankind. In 2003, the NTU Genome Medical Research Center was established to enable colleagues to conduct genome-related research with the best of intentions. Biography of the current director
Professor Pan-Chi Yang graduated from the Department of Medicine, National Taiwan University in 1979 and received his PhD from the Graduate School of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University in 1990. Dr. Yang has devoted himself to the study of the pathogenesis and metastasis of lung cancer in China, and has been awarded the Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award, the Tung-Yuan Award for Science and Technology, and the Distinguished Professor and Chair Professor of NTU, and was elected as a member of the Academia Sinica in 2006. Since 1998, he has served as Director of the Department of Internal Medicine at NTU Hospital, Director of the Academic Affairs Division at NTU College of Medicine, and Vice President of NTU Hospital.
Selected as the 14th Dean of the School of Medicine by the Dean of the School of Medicine Selection Committee in 2006, he has been committed to improving the quality of teaching, research, and service at the School, strengthening the integration of the research team, and reinforcing the quality of the faculty and the students in order to move the School of Medicine of NTU towards the goal of being a top Chinese and world-class institution.