Shih-Ann Chen, MD, is Professor of
Medicine at National Yang Ming School of Medicine in Taipei, Taiwan. He
is also Director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory, Taipei
Veterans General
Hospital, in Taipei, Taiwan.
Dr. Chen is past chairman of the Taiwan Cardiac Society Committee of
Pacing and Electrophysiology. He is also active in numerous other
professional organizations including Fellow of American Heart
Association, American College of Cardiology, European Society of
Cardiology, and Heart Rhythm. Currently on the editorial board of more
than 10 international leading journals, including Journal of the
American College of Cardiology, Journal of Cardiovascular
Electrophysiology, Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, Journal of
Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, and Heart Rhythm.
Dr Chen has published more than 50 articles in the most high-ranking
journals such as Circulation (SCI impact factor 11.632) and Journal of
the American College of Cardiology (SCI impact factor 9.200). He is
author or co-author of over 300 original articles, review, and
editorials articles, and more than 20 book chapters. His most
outstanding academic achievement is investigation of the pathophysiology
of focal atrial tachycardia, thoracic veins as atrial fibrillation
initiator, and ablation technique for atrial fibrillation. He is one of
the two pioneers in the world working on catheter ablation of atrial
fibrillation. Further, he is the first person in the world to edit the
textbook of “Thoracic Vein Arrhythmia”, which provides the novel concept
of atrial fibrillation in the modern era of interventional
electrophysiology.