Time slot's time in Taipei (GMT+8)
2025/11/21 14:00-17:30 Room 201 DEF
- Kick-on Seminar VIII
Neuromodulation: The mechanism work behind the promising clinical practice
- Time
- Topic
- Speaker
- Moderator
- 14:30-15:00
- What is said in patients with migraine by neuromodulation?
- Speaker:
Yu Aoh
(Taiwan)
- Moderator:
Wei-Ta Chen
(Taiwan)
- Wei-Ta Chen
- MD，PhD
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Professor of Neurology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Medical Director, Easeful Clinic
E-mail：wtchen71@gmail.com
Executive Summary：
Wei-Ta Chen, MD, PhD, is a professor of neurology and a headache specialist at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, as well as in the School of Medicine at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. He also serves as the Medical Director of Easeful Clinic in Taipei.
Dr. Chen became a board-certified neurologist in 2001 and earned his PhD from the Institute of Neuroscience at National Yang-Ming University in 2009. From 2010 to 2012, he conducted research as a visiting scholar at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
With a longstanding commitment to advancing the understanding of chronic pain, Dr. Chen integrates machine learning, magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), and both structural and functional MRI to explore the pathophysiology and neuroplasticity underlying conditions such as migraine, tension-type headache, and fibromyalgia.
From 2020 to 2023, he served as President of the Taiwan Headache Society. He was also Deputy Superintendent of Keelung Hospital under the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taiwan from 2021 to 2025.
To date, Dr. Chen has authored more than 120 research articles published in leading medical journals, including Brain, Neurology, Pain, NeuroImage, and Cephalalgia. In addition, he has authored and edited several books on headache and chronic pain and holds four patents related to the assessment of brain excitability, pain sensitivity, and psychological stress.
Wei-Ta Chen, MD, PhD, is a professor of neurology and a headache specialist at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, as well as in the School of Medicine at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. He also serves as the Medical Director of Easeful Clinic in Taipei.
Dr. Chen became a board-certified neurologist in 2001 and earned his PhD from the Institute of Neuroscience at National Yang-Ming University in 2009. From 2010 to 2012, he conducted research as a visiting scholar at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.
With a longstanding commitment to advancing the understanding of chronic pain, Dr. Chen integrates machine learning, magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), and both structural and functional MRI to explore the pathophysiology and neuroplasticity underlying conditions such as migraine, tension-type headache, and fibromyalgia.
From 2020 to 2023, he served as President of the Taiwan Headache Society. He was also Deputy Superintendent of Keelung Hospital under the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Taiwan from 2021 to 2025.
To date, Dr. Chen has authored more than 120 research articles published in leading medical journals, including Brain, Neurology, Pain, NeuroImage, and Cephalalgia. In addition, he has authored and edited several books on headache and chronic pain and holds four patents related to the assessment of brain excitability, pain sensitivity, and psychological stress.
