Speakers

Wayne Huey-Herng Sheu, MS, MD, PhD

Superintendent, Taichung Veterans General Hospital

Prof. and Dr. Sheu is the superintendent of Taichung Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan and holds several adjunct and consulting professor of medicine at several medical schools in Taiwan including National Defense Medical Center, National Yang Ming University, both at Taiwan.  He is currently the president of Taiwan Public Hospital Association, as well as the immediate past president (2013-2019) of Diabetes Association, Taiwan and the immediate past chair (2016 to 2017) of the IDF-WPR.

 

Dr. Sheu had led a team in Taichung Veterans General Hospital, located at central Taiwan, as the most prestigious smart hospital in Taiwan.  This hospital was the first film-free and paper-free hospital.  By employing central dashboard they had shown how to improve quality of diseases control for inpatients as well as outpatients care when back to community.  They also develop dynamic visualized control and several lean processes to greatly run operations room efficiently.

 

Dr. Sheu has authored and co-authored more than 410 original articles in the areas of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Hypertension, Obesity and Coronary Heart Disease. Dr. Sheu and this team has been actively participated many international clinical trials, such as TECOS, EXSCEL, REWIND, CREDENCE etc. He has frequently been invited to deliver speech in domestic and internal medical conferences.  He also serves as editorial board member of as reviewer for many scientific journals, including Diabetes Care, Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, American Journal of Hypertension, Circulation Journal of Biomedical Sciences, Journal of Diabetes Investigation to name a few.