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Attending physician
Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan (Republic of China)
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Dr. Susan Shin-Jung Lee is currently the chief of the microbiology service and attending physician in the infectious diseases service in Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a medical center and teaching hospital. She is the associate professor at the National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan and National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She previously served as the chief of infectious diseases service and the infection control unit in Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Dr. Lee received her M.D. from National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University, in Taipei, Taiwan. She also holds a Diploma of Tropical Medicine and International Health (TMIH) from the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium and a master degree (M.Sc) in TMIH from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, and a PhD in Epidemiology and public health, at the Graduate Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Dr Lee plays a key role in the development of antimicrobial treatment guidelines in Taiwan working under the auspices of Infectious Diseases Society of Taiwan and Medical Foundation in Memory of Dr. Deh-Lin Cheng, and working closely with the Guidelines Recommendations of Evidence-based Antimicrobial Therapy (GREAT) working group. She is also actively involved in clinical medical teaching and is currently the course co-ordinator for problem-based learning (PBL) in the school of medicine at the NSYU since 2022.
Her research interests are mainly in tuberculosis and HIV, but she has a wide range of interest in emerging infectious diseases and infection control. She is also actively involved in developing creative antimicrobial stewardship programs using AI-based decision-based algorithms when she served as chief of infectious diseases in Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital. She currently serves as a consultant for the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control.