Anesthesiologist
Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung
Ping-Heng Tan was born in Tainan, Taiwan. He received the M.D. degree from National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, and the Ph.D. degree from the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1989 and 2004, respectively. From 2004 to 2017, Dr. Tan was a chief of Department of Anesthesiology in E-Da Hospital/I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Since 2017, Dr. Tan was an attending staff in Department of Anesthesiology in Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan. In 2006, he was a Research Fellow at the Pain Research Center, Brigham & Women Hospital, Harvard University. Dr. Tan was a P.I. of Pain Research Lab at Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan. Presently, he is a Professor in school of medicine, National Sun Yet-sen University, Kaohsiung, and a Chief of Department of General Anesthesiology in Chi Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan now. He is mainly interested in research in pain medicine mainly in the role of microRNA and interferons in pain medicine. He was awarded research prize of Taiwan Association for Study of Pain in 2014 and research prize of Taiwan society of cardiovascular anesthesia anesthesiologists in 2020. He is an editoral board member of Journal of Integrative Neuroscience. Recently, he is invited as section of guest editor in Frontiers in Immunology in 2022 and Biomedicine in 2023.
Thursday, September 4, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PST