Rou-Shayn Chen

Rou-Shayn Chen has devoted himself to the specialty of movement disorders for more than 20 years and had chaired the Division of Movement Disorders, Neurological Department, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, for more than ten years, from 2004 to 2014, where he is currently an Attending Physician and an Associate Professor. He is also the Director of the Treatment Center of Parkinson’s Disease and Related Movement Disorders, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital. His major clinical works focus on diagnosis and pharmacological intervention of Parkinson’s disease and dystonia. He was one of the pioneers to use botulinum toxin in treating dystonic patients, especially with focal hand dystonia. He also built up one registration system for clinical detailed follow up of Parkinson’s disease in Taiwan. He has published 106 peer-reviewed SCI articles. His major research interests include neurophysiology of cortical plasticity and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation with theta burst stimulation paradigm. Apart from being a Physician, he was also the Founder of two major international congresses of Taiwan. One was designed for movement disorders titled TIC-PDMD which started, in 2013, the other was designed for the whole neurological society titled as ITCN started, since 2015.