Dr. Gen-Min Lin

Dr. Lin received his MD from the National Defense Medical Center in 2003, his MPH from Tzu Chi University in 2012, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from National Dong Hwa University in 2018. He joined Hualien Armed Forces General Hospital in Taiwan in 2009 and has been the Chief of the Department of Internal Medicine since 2018. His research interests include cardiovascular epidemiology, signal analysis, and artificial intelligence. He has published 142 papers in international journals to date, including 15 full articles and meta-analyses on the reverse epidemiology of metabolic factors for mortality in cardiovascular disease before 2013. Since 2013, he has collaborated with Northwestern University in the U.S. and has become an investigator with the Multi-Ethnic Atherosclerosis Study (MESA) on the relationship between sleep apnea, retinal microvascular signs, and incident atrial fibrillation. Since 2015, he has led the project of cardiorespiratory fitness and hospitalization events in the armed forces (CHIEF), aimed at improving military health in Taiwan. He has been an adjunct assistant professor at the National Defense Medical Center since 2016, and in the Department of Preventive Medicine of Northwestern University since 2019. In 2017-18, he was a visiting assistant professor at National Dong Hwa University. He won the Taiwan Excellent Military Physician Award in 2016 and the Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award at the AHA EPI Lifestyle 2020 conference.