ACME - Key Persons
ANDREW T. HUANG, MD (ORGANIZER OF ACME) is the President and CEO of the Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Professor of Medicine at Duke University, and a member of the Board of Advisors at Duke's Global Health Institute. He has devoted much of his career to basic science research, medical education, and issues related to quality of healthcare. He established the Andrew T. Huang Medical Education Promotion Fund in Taiwan to work on improving the quality of medical education and healthcare, and the Duke Colloquium to expose Duke undergraduates to great thinkers of the day. Dr. Huang's vision for ACME is to use it as a mechanism for training scholars in various health professional competencies, including research ethics. He has published numerous books of medical education and humanism, authoring books in Chinese, such as Listening to Your Patients, Doing Right, How to Select Medical Students, The Vision for Change in Health Care, and Physician Education and Training - Present and Future. He served as Chairman for both the Medical Education Forum at the National Health Research Institute, and the National Committee on Quality of Healthcare in Taiwan under the aegis of the Taiwan Department of Health, as well as for the Taiwan Medical Accreditation Council from 2009-2012. Prior to returning to Taiwan in the late 1980s, he served as the Director of Clinical Programs at the Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 peer reviewed papers. Most recently, he served as the Research Integrity Chair Professor for the University Systems (composed of 4 leading universities) of Taiwan.
CHI-WAN LAI, MD is the Chair Professor of Andrew T. Huang Medical Education Promotion Fund, Chairman of the Taiwan Medical Accreditation Council, and an observer in the US Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) site visit team. He was formerly Professor of Neurology with the University of Kansas, School of Medicine. Since moving to Taiwan from the US, he served as the Dean of the College of Medicine and Vice President of the Buddhist Tzu Chi University in Taiwan until 2001. For many years, he served as the Chairman (2010-2012) and Executive Secretary (2002-2010) of the Medical Education Committee, Ministry of Education, in Taiwan. He has devoted much of his career to the fields of medical education, humanism, and neurology. Dr. Lai has published numerous books on medical education and humanism in Chinese such as The Siki: Doctor-Patient Relationship, How to Select Medical Students (coauthor and editor), Light Up the Dark Corner: Listening to Disease, Eliminating Disparities, Breaking the Myths of Disease, The Story of Epilepsy Patients, How to Be a Doctor (author and editor), Talking, Hands, and Drugs: The Humanity of Care, Reflection on Humanism, and Sharing Experiences on Humanism.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
MILDRED CHO, PhD is Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics (SCBE). She has extensive experience developing research ethics training programs, including the basis for the current curriculum of the Responsible Conduct of Research course at SCBE. She has also prepared curricula tailored for specific areas of biomedical research, such as courses developed for genetic researchers as a co-investigator of an NIH-funded project, "Education in Genetics and Ethics" (EDGE). In addition, Dr. Cho established an ethics training program as Principal Investigator of an NIH Center for Excellence in Ethical, Legal and Social Implications Research. Now in its 9 th year, this interdisciplinary program incorporates biomedical ethics, health law, social science research methods, and human genetics. To date, this training program has graduated three postdoctoral fellows, all of whom have gone on to full time faculty positions in bioethics, and two post baccalaureate fellows who have each published four ethics articles during their fellowship and are going on to medical or graduate school. Dr. Cho also developed case-based research ethics training materials from the Benchside Ethics Consultation Service she established at Stanford University in 2005 as part of the Center for Excellence. The service is now supported by Stanford University's Clinical and Translational Science Award.
PAUL WISE, MD, MPH is the Richard E. Behrman Professor of Child Health and Society, Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, and Senior Fellow in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is Director of the Center for Policy, Outcomes and Prevention and a core faculty of the Centers for Health Policy and Primary Care Outcomes Research, at Stanford University. Dr. Wise's research focuses on US and international child health policy, particularly the provision of technical innovation in resource-poor areas of the world. Dr. Wise has worked extensively in international settings, led a variety of medical education initiatives, and served as Chair of the Steering Committee of the NIH Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research between 2000 and 2006. Dr. Wise was also a member of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Service's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society and currently serves on the National Advisory Council of the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development at the NIH.