Prof. Hsiao Yi LIN (Taiwan)

Dr. Hsiao Yi Lin is chief of the division of allergy, immunology and rheumatology at the Veterans General Hospital, Taipei and associate professor of the Faculty of Medicine, the National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan.

After graduation with an MD from Taipei Medical University, Taiwan in 1977, Professor Lin worked at the Veterans General Hospital in Taipei, as a rotating resident, and later as an attending physician. In 1987, he moved to the University of Michigan Medical Centre, United States, as a postdoctoral scholar and completed a research fellow in rheumatology, and later went on to become a visiting scholar at the Transplantation Centre, University of Pittsburgh in 1998. On returning to Taiwan, Professor Lin took up his current roles as associate professor in 1995 then clinical professor and his role as chief of division in 2006.

His research interests include purine metabolism, clinical and pathogenic aspects of gout, and epidemiology of rheumatic diseases, and he is involved in several new drug trials. Professor Lin is enthusiastically committed to the medical student and patient education, he is the awardee of teaching excellence for many years, and the founding person of three major national Patient-Aid group, namely, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Professor Lin is now a standing director of the Taiwan Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcome Research (TASPOR) and is a member of the advisory board for the Bureau of National Health Insurance