Professor Chien-Ching Hung is currently the vice superintendent of the National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin Branch, Yunlin and Professor of the Department of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology at the National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan. He has also been a staff physician at the Division of Infectious Diseases, National Taiwan University Hospital since 1996.
Professor Hung received his medical degree from the National Taiwan University College of Medicine in 1989, completed his residency training in the Department of Internal Medicine at the National Taiwan University Hospital, and his fellowship in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the National Taiwan University Hospital in 1996.
Subsequently, he obtained his master’s degree of international health at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, in 2006, followed by a PhD degree at the University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, in 2009.
Professor Hung has authored 430 articles in several peer-reviewed journals and has served as a reviewer for many international journals, including the Lancet, Lancet Infect Dis, J Hepatol, and Clin Infect Dis, among others. His research interests include clinical management of HIV-related opportunistic infections, combination antiretroviral therapy, amoebiasis, sexually transmitted infections, and viral hepatitis coinfections.
