Faculty
Yen, Muh-Yong / 顏慕庸
College of Medicine
02-2370-3750
myyen@tpech.gov.tw ;myyen1121@gmail.com
Current Position
Director, Department of Diseases Control and Prevention, Taipei City Hospital
Director, Kunming Prevention and Control Center, Taipei City Hospital
Associate Professor, College of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Office
4F, No. 100, Kunming St. Taipei, Taiwan
Academic Degrees
Research Fellow, Columbia University, USA
EMBA, National Sun Yat-Sen University
M.D., School of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical College
Ph.D. Holistic Medicine, US Holistic Medicine University
Experience
Attending Physician, Section of Infectious diseases, Veterans General Hospital,
Taipei.
Executive secretary, Infection Control Committee, VGH, Kaohsiung.
Chief, Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Services, VGH,
Kaohsiung.
Deputy Superintendent, Jan-Ai Municipal Hospital, TPC
Deputy Superintendent, Renai Branch, Taipei City Hospital
Deputy Superintendent, Taipei City Hospital
Superintendent, Kunming Branch, Taipei City Hospital.
Specialty
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Healthcare-associated Infection Control
Emergency Medicine
Quality Management
Control and Prevention of Emerging Infectious Disease
Pandemic
preparedness
Research Interests
1. Infectious Diseases
2. Nosocomial Infection Control
3. Crisis Management
in Emerging Infectious Diseases
4. Control and Prevention of Contagious Disease
5. Holistic medicine
IHP Thesis Advisee
Nafeesa Atiyya Lemoth. Infection Control Measures in Belize: Evaluating Where
We Stand in Combating an Infectious Disease of International Concern-Lessons
from the Management of SARS and Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks. 2016
(Co-advisor)
Selected Publications
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Yen MY,
Schwartz J, King CC, Lee CM, Hsueh PR. Recommendations for Protecting Against
and Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic in Long-Term Care Facilities. J Microbiol
Immunol Infect. 2020;53(3):447-453. doi: 10.1016/j.jmii.2020.04.003.
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Yen MY,
Schwartz J, Chen SY, King CC, Yang GY, Hsueh PR. Interrupting COVID-19
transmission by implementing enhanced traffic control bundling: implications
for global prevention and control efforts. J Microbiol Immunol Infect 2020;53(3):377-380. doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2020.03.011
(Correspondence)
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Schwartz J, King CC, Yen
MY. Protecting health care workers during the COVID-19 coronavirus
outbreak-lessons from Taiwan's SARS response. Clin Infect Dis 2020 March 12.
doi:10.1093/cid/ciaa255 (Correspondence)
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Schwartz J, Yen MY.
Towards a collaborative model of pandemic preparedness and response: Taiwan's changing approach to pandemics. J
Microbiol Immunol Infect 2017 Apr;50(2):125–132. available online Dec 18. 2016,
at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmii.2016.08.010 (Correspondence)
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Yen MY,
Schwartz J, Wu JSJ, Hsueh PR. Controlling MERS: Lesson Learned from SARS. Clin
Infect Dis (2015); first published online August 3, doi: 10.1093/cid/civ648
(SCI) (Correspondence)
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Cheng CW, Li LH, Su CY, Li SY, Yen MY. Changes in the six most common sequence types of Neisseria
gonorrhoeae, including ST4378, identified by surveillance of antimicrobial
resistance in northern Taiwan from 2006 to 2013. J Microbiol Immunol Infect
accepted 23 Aug 2014. (SCI) (Correspondence)
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Yen MY,
Schwartz J, Chiu AWH, Armstrong D, Hsueh PR. Traffic Control Bundling is
Essential for Protecting Healthcare Workers and Controlling the Ebola Epidemic
2014. Clin Infect Dis (SCI) Advance Access published December 19, 2014 25512433
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Yen MY,
Chiu AW-H, Schwartz J, King CC, Lin YE, Chang SC, Armstrong D, Hsueh PR. From
SARS in 2003 to H1N1 in 2009: lessons learned from Taiwan in preparation for
the next pandemic. J Hosp Infect 2014, available online 11 June 2014. DOI:
10.1016/j.jhin.2014.05.005 (SCI) 24996515
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Yen MY,
Lee WS, Hu PH, Kuo B IT, Woung LC, Chiu A WH, Liu WL, Hsueh PR. Implementation
of community influenza centers and vaccination campaign in protecting
healthcare workers and control of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in Taipei City, Taiwan.
J Infect, 67 (2013), pp. 242-244 23623994
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Yen MY, Lin YE, Lee CH, Huang FY, Ho MS, Chang SC, Liu YC.
Taiwan's traffic control bundle and the elimination of nosocomial severe acute
respiratory syndrome among health care workers. J Hosp Infect 2011;77:332-337. 21316802
4F, No. 100, Kunming St. Taipei, Taiwan
Research Fellow, Columbia University, USA
EMBA, National Sun Yat-Sen University
M.D., School of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical College
Ph.D. Holistic Medicine, US Holistic Medicine University
Attending Physician, Section of Infectious diseases, Veterans General Hospital, Taipei.
Executive secretary, Infection Control Committee, VGH, Kaohsiung.
Chief, Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Emergency Services, VGH, Kaohsiung.
Deputy Superintendent, Jan-Ai Municipal Hospital, TPC
Deputy Superintendent, Renai Branch, Taipei City Hospital
Deputy Superintendent, Taipei City Hospital
Superintendent, Kunming Branch, Taipei City Hospital.
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Healthcare-associated Infection Control
Emergency Medicine
Quality Management
Control and Prevention of Emerging Infectious Disease
1. Infectious Diseases
2. Nosocomial Infection Control
3. Crisis Management in Emerging Infectious Diseases
4. Control and Prevention of Contagious Disease
5. Holistic medicine
Nafeesa Atiyya Lemoth. Infection Control Measures in Belize: Evaluating Where We Stand in Combating an Infectious Disease of International Concern-Lessons from the Management of SARS and Ebola Virus Disease Outbreaks. 2016 (Co-advisor)