Resident in Internal Medicine

Research Focus: point-of-care diagnostics, medical surveillance/intervention with tech devices

Visiting scholar physician with UCSD HSI; embedded with the UCSD Division of Gastroenterology

Researcher in dengue virus clinical diagnosis and epidemiology with Prof. Chwan-Chuen King at the NTU College of Public Health Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

Postgraduate Year resident physician

Chief editor and writer for a web magazine geared toward high-end portable audio, coordinating in-depth product reviews, technical analysis, industry commentary, and show coverage.

Intern physician at NTU Hospital, rotating through both inpatient and outpatient services of surgery, internal medicine, oncology, dermatology, family medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, and pediatrics, taking part in all conferences, morning reports, and both teaching and work rounds, performing the admitting evaluation, H&P, and implementing plans including writing orders and progress notes. Duty work during overnight call days include all bedside procedures (nasogastric tubes, central venous catheters, blood gases, chest tubes, drain removals, dressing changes, etc.).

A two-year clinical clerkship program at NTU Hospital, with core clerkships in internal medicine, surgery, ambulatory medicine (dermatology, orthopedics, urology, otolaryngology, ophthalmology), emergency medicine, family and community medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology, physical medicine & rehabilitation, and obstetrics & gynecology, as well as elective clerkships in radiation oncology, nuclear medicine, and diagnostic radiology.Emphasis is placed on focused history-taking and examination, diagnosis, and follow-up of patients in both inpatient and outpatient care.

Responsible for the founding design language and evolution of all the company's visual assets, from corporate branding, marketing, to web interfaces.inQ Tech is a start-up venture focused on the application of machine learning networks on natural language processing and interpretation, intelligent data mining of social networks and the web, and higher education.

Visiting student to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, rotating through (1) an acting internship in Family Medicine at UPMC McKeesport and (2) a clinical clerkship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC.Acting Internship in Family Medicine:Participate in the family practice inpatient service as an intern, closely supervised by senior residents and attending physicians, taking part in all conferences, morning reports, and both teaching and work rounds, performing the admitting evaluation, H&P, and implementing plans including writing orders and progress notes.Pediatric Emergency Medicine: Advanced training in the evaluation and management of pediatric patients presenting with a wide variety of acute illnesses and injuries, emphasizing focused history-taking and examination, diagnosis and management of acute problems and procedural skills, in a four-week elective involving direct patient interaction in the Emergency Department at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, with an average of 14 shifts (8 hours), including day, evening, overnight, and weekend shifts, working directly with fellows and attendings, and attending morning conferences when on the day shift.

(1) College Admissions Counselor, and (2) Classroom Instructor and Private Tutor for SAT I, SAT II Subject Tests, ACT, Advanced Placement Tests

Cell culture studies for human adenocarcinoma line MCF-7.

Teacher for the SAT/ACT

(1) Created novel image enhancement techniques for prostate movement in helical MVCT cancer therapy, a.k.a. Tomotherapy, and (2) parametrized minimal tolerances for skull movement during stereotactic radiosurgery of brain tumors.

Examined with fMRI, amygdala/mPFC activation in the identification of the spectrum of surprised and fearful faces with respect to emotion and social cognition

Composed imaging survey on human & rodent tissue with a heterodyne imager at terahertz frequencies. Explored different media and histological techniques for fixing bio-samples under T-ray imaging.

Analyzed transfections of bacteria with genetic material of Ross River/Aura alphaviruses