Ho Chang Kuo

Biography:

I, Ho-Chang Kuo (birth year 1973), graduated from National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan with a M.D. degree in 1999 and PhD degree from Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science at Chang Gung University, Taiwan in 2011. I worked as an attending pediatrician, physician scientist and Professor at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taiwan. My research and clinical expert field are Kawasaki disease and allergic diseases. Now, I am the Director of “Kawasaki Disease Center” in Taiwan. I published more than 250 peer-reviewed SCI journal papers including 2 Nature Genetics (2011 and 2012), 1 Circulation Research (2015), 2 The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (2016), 1 Arthritis and Rheumatology (2015), 2 Allergy and a total of 150 Kawasaki disease related SCI papers. I also served as associated editor for Frontier in Immunology, Frontiers in Pediatrics, Children, BMC Pediatrics, Medicine and International Journal of Rheumatic diseases as well as Guest Editor of IJMS. I am ranked as "World's Top 2% Scientists 2020 and 2021" (Stanford University published