Faculty

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

• 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.
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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