Sen-Kuang Hou, MD PhD

Emergency Medicine

SPECIALTY/PRACTICE AREAS：
• Emergency medicine
• Internal medicine
• Wilderness medicine
• Multiple casualty incident care
• EMS (Emergency Medicine Service)

LANGUAGES SPOKEN：
• English
• Chinese

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION:

● Medical school: School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University

● Institute : (Ph.D.) Institute of Environmental And Occupational Health Science Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine

● Residency and Fellowship: Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital

ADMINSTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS:

● Director and Attending physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Medical University Hospital

● Director and Attending physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Hospital

PUBLICATIONS:

● Clinical Impact of Speed Variability to Identify Ultramarathon Runners at Risk for Acute Kidney Injury.

● Usefulness of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells-1 in differentiating between typical and atypical community-acquired pneumonia. Am J Emerg Med.

● Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Alleviate the Lung Injury from Mesenteric Ischemia Reperfusion.

● Expression profile of MicroRNAs in gram-negative bacterial sepsis.

● Effects of 100-km ultramarathon on acute kidney injury.

● Influence of a 100-km ultra-marathon on hepatitis B carrier runners.

● The effect of tropical cyclones (typhoons) on emergency department visits.

● Diagnosis and endoscopic management of upper gastrointestinal foreign bodies.

● Obstructive uropathy caused by atherosclerotic abdominal aortic aneurysm.

● Diagnosis of spontaneous urinary bladder rupture in the ED.