Professor and Dean
Taipei Medical University, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Dr. Jane C-J Chao graduated from the Department of Human Nutrition and Food Management at the Ohio State University and obtained her PhD degree in 1993. Subsequently, she had the post-doctoral training in the Division of Foods and Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1993 to 1994, and returned to her alma mater Taipei Medical University to be the faculty member in the School of Nutrition and Health Sciences since 1995. She is currently in the position of Dean in the Office of Global Engagement, Professor in the School of Nutrition and Health Sciences, and Adjunct Professors in the Master Program in Global Health and Health Security as well as the School of Health Care Administration at Taipei Medical University. Over the past 29 years, she has transited her research interests from growth factors to herbal extract and active components, and primarily focused on the effects of herbal extracts and active components on gastrointestinal diseases such as ulcerative colitis, peptic ulcer, liver disease, and liver cancer. Additionally, she expand her research area from basic nutrition sciences to nutritional epidemiology wit the focus on the assocaition between dietary patterns and chrnic disease. She has published numerous SCI journal papers and several book chapters, as well as reviewed for many academic journals. She has devoted herself to the innovative research in herbal foods and gastrointestinal diseases continuously.