Chair Professor
Taipei Medical University, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Dr. Wen-Harn Pan, a National Taiwan University graduate, obtained her PhD degrees from Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University in 1983 and then did her post-doctoral training in cardiovascular epidemiology, statistics, and nutrition at the Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago. She has joined IBMS since 1987 and retired as a distinguished Professor at Aug. 1, 2024. Since then she joined Taipei Medical University as a Chair Professor in Precision Nutrition. During her career, she has also served as the Director of Survey Research Office, Academia Sinica and the Director of Division of Preventive Medicine and Health Policy, National Health Research Institutes.
Dr. Pan has established a community-based cardiovascular cohort study in Chu-Dong and Putze since 1989 and led the Nutrition and Health Survey in Taiwan since 1992. She has also established Taiwan Han Chinese DNA and cell bank and the young-onset hypertension genomic study. Dr. Pan has more than 360 publications with regards to cardiovascular and nutrition epidemiology, dietary intervention on cardiometabolic diseases, obesity, and geriatric syndrome and currently engages in nutrition-disease omics, and precision nutrition research.
She obtained Outstanding Research Award from Taiwan Society of Nutrition in 2004, Lifetime Achievement Award from Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Nutrition in 2010, and Outstanding Contributions in Science & Technology Award of Executive Yuan (equivalent to State Department), Taiwan in 2015. She is an international fellow of American Heart Association and a fellow of International Union of Nutritional Sciences. She is currently appointed as a member of EAT-Lancet commission 2.0 for Planetary Health Diet.