Cheng-Yi WangDr. Cheng-Yi Wang is a former president of the Biomedical Engineering Society of China, Taipei (1993-1996). He is the founding professor and chairman of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the National Taiwan University Hospital (1987- 1997 and Aug 2000-July 2002), and the Center for Biomedical Engineering (later changed to Graduate Institute of Medical Engineering) of the College of Medicine, National Taiwan University (1991-1996). He organized four international symposia on biomedical engineering in 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996. He has engaged in the education and research of biomedical engineering and promoted the concept of technology assessment and risk management of instrumental events for more than 15 years. He was also coordinator of biomedical engineering program in the university, and it was the first multidiscipline program for postgraduate students in the university. Professor Wang was one of the first and leading professors in technology assessment of new advanced clinical instruments and new technology in the university hospital, when he was the chairman of the hospital's Department of Biomedical Engineering. Professor Wang organized major core courses in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering including Human Structure and Life Phenomena, Introduction to Medical Engineering, Clinical Engineering and Medical Ethics. Professor Wang was also president of Digestive Endoscopy Society of Taiwan (1996-2002), in which he was involved in enforcing cleaning and disinfecting procedures of endoscopic devices in the hospitals. He introduced quality assurance and set several major parameters to assess the quality of digestive endoscopy. He is also one of the core members in the hospital accreditation team. He is also author of many books: The Principle of Biomedical Engineering, Medical Ethics, Part A, Outline for Clinical Engineering, Colonoscopy, Endoscopy Room, Advance in Medical Instruments and Digestive Diseases Q & A.
Prof. Dr. Cheng-Yi Wang
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