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Chih-Hsing Wu, MD

Chih-Hsing Wu, MD

Institute of Gerontology, College of Medicine

National Cheng-Kung University

Paulo Chih-Hsing Wu is Associate Professor of Institute of Gerontology and Director at the Obesity, Osteoporosis, and Body Composition Research Center and the Department of Family Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital. He runs a specialized clinic for obesity and osteoporosis, the only clinic in Taiwan that manages both specialties. Dr Wu graduated from the MD program at China Medical College, Taichung, Taiwan. He was a visiting scholar at Kyoto Medical College, Kyoto, Japan and a research fellow at the New York Obesity Research Center and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA. Dr Wu is Board certified by the Taiwan Association and Taiwan Medical Association in family medicine, geriatrics, obesity, and osteoporosis and has expertise in chronic diseases and preventive medicine. Dr Wu has been a certified clinical densitometrist and a certified densitometry technologist since 2002 and 2008, respectively, from the International Society of Clinical Densitometry (ISCD) and has been devoted to promoting the concept of bone densitometry in Taiwan ever since. He is Co-Director of TOPTEAM (Tainan Osteoporosis Prevention, Treatment, and Evaluation Associated Membership) and Director of the ISCD course committee of the Taiwanese Osteoporosis Association. With his leadership, 45 ISCD/IOF courses and 4 body composition courses with over 4,500 attendees have been successfully organized since 2002 in Taiwan. The WHO acknowledged his great contribution towards the development of a country-specific FRAX® model for Taiwan in 2010. Recently, Dr Wu successfully organized three international conferences for the consensus statements of the ISCD, IOF/ISCD FRAX® and bone turnover makers in the Asia Pacific region. From 2015 to 2017, he was President of the Taiwanese Osteoporosis Association leading the best country of FLS awarded by IOF in 2017. He has been Chair and Board member of the Asia Pacific region and the ISCD.

Disclosures: No relationships to disclose.