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Department Introduction

China Medical University Hospital (CMUH) founded the Center for Addiction Medicine in October 2011, where Academia Sinica Fellow Ing-kan Ho was brought in to assist with its establishment, and the hospital's Department of Psychiatry Director Hsien-yuan Lane and Director Chieh-liang Huang served as the center's Director and Deputy Director, respectively, inviting the hospital doctors and school teachers to cooperate.

The center plans to conduct a comprehensive in-depth study of substance addiction, ranging from clinical pharmacokinetics and metabolism, evaluation of clinical symptoms of addictive diseases, to gene, cell, and animal models, exploring the causes and mechanisms leading to addictive diseases and further developing new alternative therapy for addiction treatment. The center has been scheduled to collect information about addicts’ pharmacokinetics, drug-metabolizing genes, and metabolic activity, pharmacodynamics, clinical reaction and follow-up assessments. Moreover, it has been working with major medical establishments and academic and research institutions to set up the cooperation network of domestic clinical medical institutions, and train addiction clinical research team to promote addiction research.

The new model of cooperation between units of hospitals and schools was initiated in the form of horizontal integration—setting up a cooperative model of "functional task-oriented grouping," based on close communication to turn the center into the first bidirectional translational research center for basic and clinical addiction studies across the nation.

Our Teams

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Hsien-Yuan Lane

Director-General

Dr. Lane Hsien-Yuan specializes in the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and dementia. His team is dedicated to discovering safer natural compounds for the treatment of psychiatric disorders and has received prestigious national and international awards for their work.

Wan-Ju Cheng

Attending Physician

Dr. Cheng specializes in the treatment of sleep disorders, occupational stress, smoking, alcohol and drug addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, and autonomic nervous system dysfunction. She holds certifications as a sleep specialist, addiction specialist, and occupational medicine physician. Having received psychoanalytic psychotherapy training, she offers treatment options for psychoneurotic disorders beyond pharmacotherapy. Her clinical service and scientific research have been outstanding. In 2007, she received the Best Physician Award from Taipei City Hospital, in 2015, she was awarded the Outstanding Graduate Award from National Taiwan University, and in 2018, she was honored with the Excellent Physician Award and Excellent Teaching Award from China Medical University Hospital. She was awarded research grants from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) in collaboration with the Finnish Academy in both 2018 and 2019, and in 2019, she received the Young Researcher Award from the Taiwan Society of Addiction Science.