Department Introduction

Rheumatology and Immunology Center

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Rheumatology and Immunology Center

Our Teams

Joung-Liang Lan

Joung-Liang Lan

Consultant
Dr. Joung-Liang Lan, is a specialist of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology. He served as Visiting Scholar of Johns Hopkins Center, USA. He earned as the Master Award from Taiwan College of Rheumatology (TCR, 2013) and Asia-Pacific League of Associations of Rheumatology (APLAR, 2017). Currently, he serves as an advisor to the Dean’s office of CMUH and Distinguished Professor of China Medical Univ. He served as President of TCR (2009-2011). His research interests include pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and connective tissue diseases associated with interstitial lung disease (CTD-ILD). The laboratory focuses on identifying the novel biomarkers and autoantibodies for diagnosing autoimmune disease and monitoring progression of CTD-ILD. He is the principal investigator of more than fifty international clinical trials (phase I-III,1995-2024).
Der-Yuan Chen

Der-Yuan Chen

Vice Superintendent
Dr. Der-Yuan Chen, is a specialist of Allergy, Immunology, Rheumatology. He earned as an excellent Dr. of CMUH (2022), the Master Award from Taiwan College of Rheumatology (TCR) (2023) and Asia-Pacific League of Associations of Rheumatology (APLAR) (2024). He serves as the director/vice superintendent of Rheumatology/Immunology Center of CMUH. He served as President of TCR (2014-2016). His research interests include immunopathogenesis of autoimmune diseases (SLE, RA) and autoinflammatory disease (AOSD), an association of infection with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, and the safety profile of biological/targeted synthetic DMARDs. With an excellent achievement in SLE research, he has won the SLE Academic Research Award from the Society of Immunology and participated in the development of APLAR guidelines for SLE treatment (Lancet Rheumatology 2022). He has thirty-five AOSD-related papers published in SCI journals, including Ann Rheum Dis and Arthritis Rheumatol, and also by Kelly's textbooks of Rheumatology. He has been awarded an outstanding researcher by various organizations. With 265 peer-reviewed publications in SCI Journals (~2025.01), He was listed as one of the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2020-2024 [Citation: 11,100, H-index: 55 and i10-index: 209 (Google Scholar, 2025.01)]
Chung-Ming Huang

Chung-Ming Huang

Director
1.Doctor Chung-Ming Huang specializes in systemic lupus erythematosus, arthritis, immunological disease (Polymyositis, scleroderma, capillaritis etc.) and other allergy relation diseases (urticaria, rhinitis, asthma etc.)
2.The key to Immunology-Rheumatology disease is for early diagnosis and treatment. Diagnosis, Treatment and Care of systemic lupus erythematosus, arthritis and Ankylosing spondylitis is a specialty of Doctor Huang’s. He as accumulated years of treatment experience and has presented over 50 papers in international arthritis journals.
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