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Executive Summary：
Dr. Ning-Hung Chen


Dr. Chen is a full Professor and attending physician of Chang Gung University and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan. Dr. Chen was trained in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and certified in 3 specialties in Taiwan: Internal Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical care and sleep medicine. He was trained in sleep medicine at Stanford Sleep Disorders Clinic in 2000 and the Division of sleep medicine, Center for Sleep and Respiratory Neurobiology-CSRN in Philadelphia, and The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA during 2009. His major research focused on sleep medicine, especially obstructive sleep apnea syndromes and the epidemiology of restless legs syndrome.
Dr. Chen was the founder and the director of Sleep Center in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital since 1997. He was the Chief of the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linko, Taiwan from 2012 to 2018. Dr. Chen was elected to be the 3rd President of Taiwan Society of Sleep Medicine in 2006. He also served as the Past Secretary General of World Sleep Federation, Past Vice President of Asian Sleep Research Society from 2006 to 2012. He was elected as the President of Asian Society of Sleep Medicine from 2014 to 2017. He is now the head of the Assembly of Neurobiology and Sleep of Asia Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR).
Dr. Chen published more than 170 SCI articles, two books, and owns several patents about sleep. He is also the reviewer for many SCI journals and frequently invited as speaker or Moderator at international sleep conferences. He won the Fukuchi Award for the best original research paper of Respirology in 2018. He was also named twice as world’s top 2% Scientists jointly published by Elsevier BV and Stanford University in 2020 and 2021.

Executive Summary：
Dr. Shih-Wei Lin accomplished his pulmonary and critical care specialist training at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan. He became the attending doctor and pulmonary consultant since 2003.
Now a day, Dr. Lin is the director of Sleep Center, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan, Taiwan, and Secretary General of the Taiwan Society of Sleep Medicine.
Dr. Lin started his sleep research interest in microarray and photo image of sleep-disordered breathing. His published paper, Three‐dimensional photography for the evaluation of facial profiles in obstructive sleep apnoea, was the best original research paper of 2019 Fukuchi Award winner.
Research Interests:
Pathophysiology of sleep-disordered breathing

Executive Summary：
Dr. Hsu got his M.D. degree from the Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. He had been a research fellow at the Department of Sleep Medicine of Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and the Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, between 1999 and 2004. Dr. Hsu came back to Taiwan in 2004 and began to work as an assistant professor and attending physician at the Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University and Hospital. Currently, he is appointed as professor, director of Sleep Center at the Department of Neurology, and also the chief of the Department of Neurology, Kaohsiung Medical University and Hospital. Dr. Hsu had been the president of Taiwan Society of Sleep Medicine, a vice secretary in general of Taiwan Society of Clinical Neurophysiology and executive member of Taiwan Neurological Society. He is now an executive member of Taiwan Society of Sleep Medicine, Taiwan Epilepsy Society. Under the leadership of Dr. Hsu, the KMUH Sleep Medicine Center is built on a foundation of basic and clinical research teams specializing in sleep neuroscience. It integrates a small animal sleep laboratory as part of an interdisciplinary translational medicine team across institutions and fields. The center leverages artificial intelligence and industry-academic collaboration, forming a highly professional interdisciplinary sleep medicine team. The center has received numerous accolades for its work in neurological sleep disorders, including the Symbol of National Quality (SNQ), the National Healthcare Quality Award (NHQA) in the smart healthcare category, and the National Innovation Award. In recent years, its published research papers have been recognized as leading contributions among medical centers and sleep centers nationwide.

Executive Summary：
Cheng-Yu Wei received his M.D. degree from the School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, in 1993. He earned his M.Sc. in Medicine from the College of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan, in 1996, and an MBA from the College of Management, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, in 2006.
Dr. Wei currently serves as Director and attending physician in the Department of Neurology at Chang Bing Show-Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Exercise and Health Promotion, College of Kinesiology and Health, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan.
He has published extensively in the field of neurology, with a focus on sleep disorders, dementia, stroke, and movement disorders.