Dr. Chuang is a psychiatrist and an epidemiologist with a research focus on the epidemiology of aging and biomarkers of cognitive aging and dementia.
Aging is an inevitable process, and Dr. Chuang seeks to find modifiable factors that can help everyone age well and maintain physically, cognitively, and socially active in the late-life. Taiwan is a rapidly aging society, and we have limited data on understanding cognitive aging and even risk factors of dementia in Taiwan's elderly population. She established a community-based cohort study, "The Epidemiology of Mild Cognitive Impairment in Taiwan" (EMCIT), in a rural (Pinling) and urban (Banqiao) region in Northern Taiwan. By collecting cognitive functions, brain images, and environmental data in older adults, we can better understand cognitive aging trajectories in Taiwan's elderly population and develop interventions that can slow cognitive decline and the occurrence of dementia.
Lab website： https://www.chuanglab.co/
2012 Ph.D., Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2002 M.D., National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2015.2-now Assistant professor, Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
2014.9-2015.1 Clinical fellow, Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
2012-2014 Postdocoral fellow, Lab of Behavior Neuroscience, National Institute of Aging, Baltimore, Maryland US
2007-2008 House staff (Psychiatry), Min-Sheng General Hospital, TaoYuan Hsien, Taiwan
2006-2007 Fellowship (Psychiatric Research), Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
2002-2006 Residency, Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
