Wei-chung Hsu MD, PhD

Wei-Chung Hsu, MD, Ph.D. is currently the Division Chief and Professor of the Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Department of Otolaryngology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, National Taiwan University Hospital, and Children’s Hospital. He received his residency training at National Taiwan University Hospital after graduating from the Medical School of the National Taiwan University. He also got his Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, Colleague of Public Health, National Taiwan University.

He is one of the founding members of the Asian Paediatric Otolaryngology Group (APOG) and was the President of APOG from 2013-2015. He is also an active member of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology (ASPO), the European Society of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology (ESPO), and the Inter-American Association of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology (IAPO), who has received 2012 ASPO International Visiting Scholar Award and selected as a member of CORALS (Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum) since 2016. Recently, he just finished his research fellowship as a visiting scholar in the Department of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center from 2017 to 2018. As an honor, he was nominated as the representative of the Asian area in the International Working Group of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology (IWGPO), which is the core leading board member of the World Congress of Pediatric ENT since 2018.

He is interested in pediatric airway endoscopy and airway reconstructive surgery, pediatric sleep apnea, and medical education, which has been involved in many aspects of research, invited as a guest speaker and published many papers in the SCI journals.