Faculty

Current Position

Distinguished Professor, Institute of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Adjunct Attending Physician & Chief, Division of Clinical Toxicology & Occupational Medicine, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital
Joint Professor, Institute of Public Health, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
Joint Professor, Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
Joint Professor, Institute of Food Safety and Health Risk Assessment, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan

Office

Room 309, 2nd Medical Building

Academic Degrees

M.D., National Yang-Ming University
M.P.H., Harvard School of Public Health
Dr.P.H., Department of Epidemiology (Pharmacoepidemiology Program), Harvard School of Public Health

Experience

Professor & Chair, Institute of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Joint Professor, Institute of Public Health, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Head, Department of Environmental & Occupational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Chief, Division of Clinical Toxicology & Occupational Medicine, Taipei Veterans
General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Adjunct Attending Physician, Division of Clinical Toxicology & Occupational Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Director, Taiwan National Poison Control Center
Committee Member, Food Safety Council, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
Advisory Committee Member (Food Safety, Health and Nutrition), Ministry of Health & Welfare, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
Advisory Committee Member (Monitoring Board of Food Safety Protection Fund), Ministry of Health & Welfare, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
Advisory Committee Member [Healthcare Promotion of Yucheng (polychlorinated biphenyl poisoning) Victims], Ministry of Health & Welfare, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
Advisory Committee Member (Drug Safety), Taiwan FDA, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
Advisory Committee Member, Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan, Taiwan
Committee Member, Food Safety Council, Taipei City, Taiwan
Expert Reviewer, Adverse Drug Event Reporting System, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Executive Yuan, Taiwan

Specialty

Clinical Toxicology, Epidemiology, Environmental & Occupational Medicine, Food Safety, Internal Medicine, Pharmacoepidemiology, Public Health & Toxicology

Research Interests

Acute Poisonings (pesticide poisoning, pharmaceutical poisoning, natural toxin related poisoning, etc.), Environmental and Occupational Medicine (work-related poisoning, psychological impacts of low-dose rate radiation exposure, quality of life, etc.), Pharmacoepidemiology (adverse drug effects, safety of Chinese herbs, effectiveness and safety of antidotes, etc.) and Toxicoepidemiology (outcome predictors of various poisonings)

IHP Thesis Advisee

1. 林琪鈺－女性外籍監護工的生理健康、憂鬱情形、生活品質及其每日時間分配探討(2007)(Co-advisor)。
2. Netima Cooney. The Invisible Epidemic: Factors Associated with the Late Diagnosis of HIV in Young Thai People - A Population Based Study. 2007
3. 吳旻儒－醫療順從性等因子與國內靜脈毒癮者持續參與美沙酮治療門診時間之相關性(2009)。
4. Lamin M. Ceesay. The Prevalence and Determinants of Smoking among Secondary School Students in Kombo North, the Gambia. 2009
5. Lamin M. Ceesay. Impact of the Enablers Incentives on Health-Related Quality of Life among Tuberculosis Patients in the Gambia. 2020.
6. Nelly Mngomezulu. Quality of Life and its Correlates in Diabetic Outpatients in Swaziland. 2014 
7. 邱必淩－癌症病人因血液性藥物不良反應導致住院的配對個案對照研究。2015
8. Uyen V Doan.  Herb-related anticholinergic toxicity: An analysis of poisoning cases reported to PCC Taiwan. 2017.
9. Sabelo Bonginkosi Dlamini. Comparing the prognosis of HIV/AIDS between patients with hypertension and those without hypertension who are on antiretroviral therapy in Eswatini, 2015 - 2018. 2019.
10. Tanavij Pannoi. Interplay between proton-pump inhibitors, cardiorenal diseases, and mortality: a causal mediation framework. (Co-advisor).

11. Edo Riyandani. Prevalence and Risk Factors of Low Back Pain Among Indonesian Migrant Workers in Taiwan Manufacturing Industries. 2022
 

Selected Publications

1. Yang CC, *Jick SS, Jick H. Lipid-lowering drugs and the risk of depression and suicidal behavior. Arch Intern Med (currently known as JAMA Intern Med) 2003;163:1926-1932. (SCI)
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2. H Chen YJ, Wu ML, Deng JF, Yang CC. The epidemiology of glyophosate-surfactant herbicide poisoning in Taiwan, 1986-2007: a poison center study. Clin Toxicol 2009;47:670-677. (SCI) *correspondent
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3. Hsieh CF, Huang SL, Chen CL, Chen WT, Chang HC, Wu ML, *Yang CC. Increased risk of chronic kidney disease among users of non-prescribed Chinese herbal medicine in Taiwan. Prev Med 2012;55:155-159.
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5. Chen CY, Liu CJ, Feng JY, Loong CC, Liu C, Hsia CY, Hu LY, Lin NC, Hu YW, Yeh CM, Chen TJ, *Yang CC. Incidence and risk factors for tuberculosis after liver transplantation in an endemic area: a nationwide population-based matched cohort study. Am J Transplant 2015;15:2180-2187. 
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7. Doan UV, Wu Ml, Phua DH, Bomar, Yang CC. Datura and Brugmansia plants related antimuscarinic toxicity: An analysis of poisoning cases reported to the Taiwan Poison Control Center. Clin Toxicol 2019;59:246-253.

Supervised IHP Student Publications

• Lin CC, Wen TI, Ng CJ, Shih CP, Hsu J, Liao YC, Yang CC, Fang CC and TEDAS Research Group. Emergency department visits due to new psychoactive substances and other illicit drugs in Taiwan: preliminary results of the Taiwan Emergency Department Drug Abuse Surveillance (TEDAS) project. Clin Toxicol 2022;60(6):708-715. (SCI) *co-correspondent
• Liao SC, Shao SC, Yang KJ, Yang CC. Real-world effectiveness of hyperbaric oxygen therapy for delayed neuropsychiatric sequelae after carbon monoxide poisoning. Sci Rep 2021;11:19212 (SCI) *correspondent
• Ho CC, Wen PC, Yu WC, Hu YW, Yang CC. Pre-existing chronic kidney disease and hypertension increased the risk of cardiotoxicity among colorectal cancer patients treated with anti-cancer drugs. J Chin Med Assoc 2021;84(9):877-884. (SCI) *correspondent
• Liang CK, Chu CS, Hsu YH, Chou MY, Wang YC, Lin YT, Renn JH, Liu TY, Yang CC. Effects of modified version of the Hospital Elder Life Program on post-discharge cognitive function and activities of daily living among older adults undergoing total knee arthroplasty. Arch Geriatr Gerontol 2021;93:104284. (SCI) *correspondent
• Lin KH, Yen FS, Li HL, Wei JCC, Hsu CC, Yang CC, Hwu CM. Urate-lowering therapy exerts protective effects against hypertension development in patients with gout. J Hum Hypertension 2021;35(4).351-359. (SCI) *co-correspondent
• Mao YC, Liu PY, Chiang LC, Lee CH, Lai CS, Lai KL, Lin WL, Su HY, Ho CH, Doan UV, Maharani T, Yang YY, Yang CC. Clinical manifestations and treatments of Protobothrops mucrosquamatus bite and associated factors for wound necrosis and subsequent debridement and finger or toe amputation surgery. Clin Toxicol 2021;59(1):28-37. (SCI) *correspondent

• Liang CK, Chuang HY, Hsiao FY, Liu TY, Yang CC, Chen LK. Prognostic impact of delirium in older people with/without dementia: a retrospective cohort study in Taiwan. J Nutr Health Aging 2020;24(9):951-958. (SCI) *co- correspondent.

• Fan YP, Wu CT, Lin JL, Hsiung CA, Liu HY, Lai JN, Yang CC. Metformin treatment is associated with a decreased risk of non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a population-based cohort study. J Diabetes Res 2020;Article ID 9161039. (SCI) *co-correspondent 

• Huang CJ, Tseng CL, Chen HS, Hwu CM, Tang KT, Won JGS, Shih CW, Yeh CC, Yang CC, Wang FF. Iodine nutritional status of pregnant women in an urban area of northern Taiwan in 2018. PLoS One 2020;15(5):e0233162. (SCI) *co-correspondent

• Liao SC, Mao YC, Yang KJ, Wang KC, Wu LY, Yang CC. Targeting optimal time for hyperbaric oxygen therapy following carbon monoxide poisoning for prevention of delayed neuropsychiatric sequelae: A retrospective study. J Neruol
  Sci 2019;396:187-192. *correspondent

• Doan UV, Wu ML, Phua DH, Bomar, Yang CC. Datura and Brugmansia plants related antimuscarinic toxicity: An analysis of poisoning cases reported to the Taiwan Poison Control Center. Clin Toxicol 2019;57(4):246-253. (SCI) *correspondent

• Mao YC, Liu PY, Chiang LC, Lai CS, Lai KL, Ho CH, Wang TH, Yang CC. Naja atra snakebite in Taiwan. Clin Toxicol 2018;56(4):273-280. (SCI) *correspondent

• Lin MS, Lin CC, Chen CY, Huang SY, Chou YH, Yang CC. Myocardial injury was associated with persistent and delayed neurological sequelae among patients with carbon monoxide poisoning in Taiwan. J Chin Med Assoc 2018;81(8):682-
  690. (SCI) *correspondent