Chau-Chyun Sheu, MD, PhD, is the current director of the Department of Internal Medicine at Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the School of Medicine at Kaohsiung Medical University in 1995, and received his PhD degree from the Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine at the same university in 2022. His research interests include pneumonia, COPD, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and ARDS. Dr. Sheu is a member of professional societies including the American Thoracic Society, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the Taiwan Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.