Dr. Edmund Cheung So was born in Hong Kong. He received his MD degree from Taipei Medical University in 1985 and completed his resident training at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (Taipei) from 1985 to 1989. In 1992, he served as a clinical fellow in the multidisciplinary pain centre at, the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. He then served in the Department of Anesthesia at Chi Mei Medical Center until 2012. In 2010, he received a PhD degree from the Institute of Basic Medical Science, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University. In January 2013, he joined China Medical University and is now the chief of the Anesthesia & Medical Research Department at China Medical University-An Nan Hospital. Professor So was the past president of the Taiwan Association of Anesthesia Safety and the present president of the Taiwan Society of Intravenous Anesthesia. He is a visiting professor at both Shangdon University and Ottawa-Jiotung Joint School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotung University, China.