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Wing P. Chan, MD

Wing P. Chan, MD

ISCD Asia Pacific Panel chair, Scientific Advisory Council chair, BOD member

Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University

Dr. Wing P. Chan is Professor and Chief of the Department of Radiology at Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. Currently, he is the Taiwan Radiological Society president, Taiwanese Osteoporosis Association honorary consultant, ISCD Asia Pacific Panel chair, Scientific Advisory Council chair, BOD member, and IOF/ISCD Joint Osteoporosis Essentials Course faculty. He earned his medical degree from Taipei Medical University and completed his residency at National Taiwan University Hospital. In 1989 he completed a Musculoskeletal Radiology research fellowship at UCSF and stayed until 1992 as a visiting assistant professor. He subsequently served as a staff radiologist at Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center in Taiwan. Dr. Chan is a founding convener of the Musculoskeletal Radiology committee, DXA Quality and Osteoporosis Education committee, and Safety and Quality committee of the Taiwan Radiological Society. Dr. Chan implemented a series of strategies to improve osteoporosis detection in Taiwan, finding a prevalence of osteoporosis close to 30% in Taiwanese postmenopausal women. Dr. Chan also established the mandatory DXA and Osteoporosis - Prerequisite Course for Taiwanese Radiology Residency Programs. Further, Dr. Chan developed quality improvement DXA best practices for technologists during scan acquisition and analysis. He instituted a standardized automated DXA reporting system to reduce reporting errors. In 2013, Dr. Chan was the first physician to receive The National Best Teacher Award from the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. Dr. Chan has served as editor of 7 books and author or co-author of 40 book chapters and invited articles. He has also authored over 230 articles in peer-reviewed medical journals.

Disclosures: No relationships to disclose.