Chang Mei-hwei (Chinese: 張美惠; born 1949) is a Taiwanese pediatric hepatologist.
Career
Chang graduated from the National Taiwan University College of Medicine, completed fellowship training in pediatric gastroenterology at UCLA Health, and later returned to Taiwan, subsequently serving as a distinguished chair professor within NTU's Department of Pediatrics. Chang has researched hepatitis B vaccination, biliary atresia in infants, and led the Children's Liver Foundation. She was featured in the 2016 documentary Taiwan Revealed: Medical Elite.
Honors
In 2013, Chang was awarded the TWAS Prize in Medical Science. The following year, she was elected an academician of Academia Sinica. Chang was elected to fellowship within The World Academy of Sciences in 2018.
References
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- Women pediatricians
- National Taiwan University alumni
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- TWAS fellows
- Taiwanese women physicians
- 1949 births
- Academic staff of the National Taiwan University
- Taiwanese pediatricians
- Taiwanese hepatologists
- 20th-century Taiwanese physicians
- 21st-century women physicians
- Living people
- 20th-century women physicians
- Women hepatologists
- Taiwanese medical researchers
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