Yen Kuang Yang MD

Dr. Yen Kuang Yang graduated from Kaohsiung Medical University and received his psychiatry residency training in National Taiwan University Hospital and National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) Hospital. After completing the training and acquired board-certified psychiatry qualification, he served as a consultant responsible for psychiatric acute wards, clinical drug trials, clinic for substance abuse, home care services, daycare treatment, and psychiatric community rehabilitation program at National Cheng Kung University Hospital. He is now the deputy superintendent of National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Dou-Liu Branch. He also maintained a teaching post at the College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University as a distinguished professor. Dr. Yang’s main clinical and academic interests include neuroimaging, social medicine, biological psychiatry, and behavioral medicine. In 2000 he worked as a visiting fellow in Duke University for Psychiatry, NC, USA, where he had training in biological psychiatry and program of a clinical drug trial. Currently, he has reviewed articles for many international journals and published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers. He is now the associate editor of the Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry and the associate editor of Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience.