Tai-Hua Yang Associate Professor and Attending Physician, 1.Department of Biomedical Engineering 2.Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 1.National Cheng Kung University, 2.National Cheng kung university Hospital

Tai-Hua Yang was born in Tainan, Taiwan. In 1997, he received a medical degree in Western and Traditional Medicine at China Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan. After completing his residency and clinical fellowship there, he obtained the Board of Taiwan Orthopedic Association license in 2006. He enrolled in the master’s program at what is now the Department of Biomedical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, in 2007. The following year, he was promoted directly to the PhD program. In 2011, he obtained a full one-year grant from the National Science Council for advanced research at the Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Department of Orthopedics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. He worked as a research fellow for five years there. He focused on the biomechanical and molecular biological regulation of carpal tunnel syndrome and received a basic science award from the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Since 2016, he has been a faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at NCKU. He is also an Attending Physician in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at NCKU Hospital, College of Medicine, Tainan. His current research interests include orthopedic biomedical research, application of medical image processing, medical device and rehabilitation equipment research and development, and orthopedic molecular biology.