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.
Ph.D., Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2012
M.D., National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2002
Assistant professor, 2015/2- now
Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Clinical fellow, 2014/9-2015/1
Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Postdocoral fellow, 2012 – 2014
Lab of Behavior Neuroscience, National Institute of Aging, Baltimore, Maryland US
House staff (Psychiatry), 2007 – 2008
Min-Sheng General Hospital, TaoYuan Hsien, Taiwan
Fellowship (Psychiatric Research), 2006 – 2007
Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
Residency, Department of Psychiatry, 2002 – 2006
National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
