Program

Executive Summary：
Dr. Shang-Yeong Kwan is the consultant of Children’s Hospital of China Medical University, Taiwan, and also a part-time visiting staff member at the Section of Epilepsy, Neurological Institute at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan, where he retired in 2023. He was the President of Taiwan Epilepsy Society (TES) from 2013–2015, and the President of Children’s Epilepsy Association of Taiwan (CEAT) from 2017-2019. Also the chairman of ILAE-CAOA-ASEPA (2019-2023). Before retirement, he also served as Clinical Professor of Neurology at the National Defense Medical College in Taiwan for decades. Dr Kwan received his medical education from Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and graduated in 1983. After completing his national military service in the Republic of China Navy, he enrolled as a Resident of Neurology at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan in 1985 where he progressed to Clinical Fellow in 1991. Dr Kwan then travelled as a Research Fellow to the Toronto Sick Children’s Hospital at Toronto University, Toronto, Canada, and subsequently became board-certified as an EEG specialist in Canada, in 1992. Dr Kwan also holds a Master of Law, which he obtained in 2006 from Soochow University in Taipei, Taiwan. Dr Kwan is actively involved with professional bodies dedicated to epilepsy in Taiwan: after his back to Taiwan in 1993, he had served several terms as the secretary general, board of director and supervisor of TES and CEAT for decades. With his dedication to epilepsy education, he was awarded the Asian and Ocean Outstanding Achievements Epilepsy Award by ILAE- CAOA in 2018. Although he has retired now, he still actively teaching the EEG and epilepsy in many medical centres of Taiwan and joining the teaching courses of ASEPA around all Asian countries.