WEN-YU YU M.D.

Emergency Medicine

SPECIALTY/PRACTICE AREAS：
• Emergency medicine
• Internal medicine
• Preventive medicine
• Community medicine
• Trauma surgery
• Geriatric medicine
• Critical care
• Injury prevention and control

LANGUAGES SPOKEN：
• English
• Chinese

Professional education:

● Master of Science, Graduate Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, TMUH

● Bachelor of medicine, Chung Shan Medical University

Administrative appointments:

● Experience and Qualification

● M.D., School of Medicine, China Medical University 1990

● Resident of Emergency, Veteran General Hospital, Taichung, 1990-2005

● Attending Physician in Emergency, China Medical University Hospital, 2005-2007

● Msc., Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, Taipei Medical University, 2007

● Attending Physician in Emergency, Taipei Medical University Hospital, 2007-

● Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, 2016-

Publications:

● Risk Factors for Traumatic Brain Injuries During Falls in Older Persons.

● Polygonum viviparum L. induces vasorelaxation in the rat thoracic aorta via activation of nitric oxide synthase in endothelial cells.

● Effects of fall injury type and discharge placement on mortality, hospitalization, falls, and ADL changes among older people in Taiwan.

● Myrrh mediates haem oxygenase-1 expression to suppress the lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammatory response in RAW264.7 macrophages.

● Effect of Sanguis draconis (a dragon’s blood resin) on streptozotocin- and cytokine-induced b-cell damage, in vitro and in vivo.

● Effectiveness of different types of motorcycle helmets and effects of their improper use on head injuries.

● Protective effect of dried safflower petal aqueous extract and its main constituent, carthamus yellow, against lipopolysaccharideinduced inflammation in RAW264.7 macrophages.