Curriculum Vitae
Ying-Yeh Chen M.D. Sc.D.
Taipei City Psychiatric Center, Taipei City Hospital
Institute of Public Health and Department of Public Health
National Yang-Ming University
309 Songde Road, XinYi District, Taipei, Taiwan
Tel: 886-2-27263141 ext. 1224, Fax: 886-2-27262194,
E-mail: ychen@tpech.gov.tw
Education:
Doctor of Science, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard University, USA
Master of Science, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard University, USA
Doctor of Medicine, Chung-Shang Medical and Dental College, Taiwan
Present Position:
Attending Psychiatrist, Taipei City Psychiatric Center, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei,
Taiwan
Associate Professor, Institute of Public Health & Department of Public Health,
National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
Past Experiences:
Aug 2005 ~ Jan 2010: Assistant Professor, National Yang-Ming University
July 1998 ~ July 2000: Attending Psychiatrist, National Taiwan University Hospital
July 1994 ~ June 1998: Psychiatric Residency, National Taiwan University Hospital
Research Interest:
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Suicide prevention: public health approach to suicide prevention, socioeconomic
conditions and suicide, media and suicide, gender and suicide,
Psychiatric epidemiology: gender and psychiatric morbidity, socioeconomic
position and mental health
Social epidemiology: social inequality, socioeconomic position and health,
socio-contextual factors and health
Recent Publications：
A. SCI/SSCI Journal (2005-2012)
2012
1.
Chen YY*, Kwok RCL, Yip PSF: Decomposing the widening suicide gender gap: an
experience in Taipei City, Taiwan. Journal of Affective Disorders.
2012;136(3):868-874 (SCI/SSCI)
2.
Chen YY, Liao SF, Ten PR, Tsai CW, Fan HF, Lee WC, Cheng ATA: The impact of
media reporting of the suicide of a singer on suicide rates in Taiwan. Social Psychiatry
and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2012;47:215-221 (SSCI)
3.
Chen YY, Wu KCC, Yousuf S, Yip PSF: Suicide in Asia: Opportunities and
Challenges. Epidemiologic Reviews. 2012;34(1):129-144 (SCI)
2011
4.
Kuo CJ, Gunnell D, Chen CC, Yip PSF, Chen YY*: Suicide and non-suicide mortality
after deliberate self-harm in a metropolitan city in Asia. British Journal of Psychiatry.
2011. DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.111.099366 (SCI/SSCI)
5.
Yip PSF, Caine ED, Kwok RCL, Chen YY*: A decompositional analysis of the
relative contribution of age, sex and methods of suicide to the changing patterns of
suicide in Taipei City, 2004-2006. Injury Prevention. 2011 Oct 25. [Epub ahead of
print] DOI: 10.1136/injuryprev-2011-040177 (SSCI)
6.
Chen YY*, Yip PSF, Tsai CW, Fan HF: Media representation of gender patterns of
suicide in Taiwan. The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. 2011
(accepted, SSCI)
7.
Fan CC, Chen YY*: Factors associated with care burden and quality of life among
caregivers of the mentally ill in Chinese society. International Journal of Social
Psychiatry. 2011;57(2):195-206 (SSCI)
8.
Law CK, Yip PSF, Chen YY*: The economic and potential years of life lost of suicide
in Taiwan, 1997-2007. The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention.
2011;32:153-159 (SSCI)
9.
Chen YY*, Yip PSF: Suicide sex ratios after the inception of charcoal-burning suicide
in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2011;72(4):566-567
(SCI/SSCI)
10. Tsai CW, Gunnell D, Chou YH, Kuo CJ, Lee MB, Chen YY*: Why do people choose
charcoal burning as a method of suicide? An interview based study of survivors in
Taiwan. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2011;131(1-3):402-407 (SCI/SSCI)
2010
11. Chen YY*, Yip PSF, Lee CKM, Fan HF, Fu KW: Economic fluctuations and suicide:
a comparison of Taiwan and Hong Kong. Social Science & Medicine.
2010;71:2083-2090 (SSCI)
12. Chen YY*, Chen F, Yip PSF: The impact of media reporting of suicide on actual
suicides in Taiwan, 2002-2005. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
2010;65(10):934-940 (SCI/SSCI)
13. Hung TC, Tang HS, Chiu CH, Chen YY, Chou KR, Chiou HS, Chang HJ: Anxiety,
depressive symptom and suicidal ideation of outpatients with obsessive compulsive
disorders in Taiwan. Journal of Clinical Nursing. 2010;19(21-22):3092-3101
(SCI/SSCI)
14. Tseng KC, Chang CM, Liao SC, Chen YY, Lee MB: Factors of early suicide after
discharge: a national linkage study for suicide victims in Taiwan. Suicide &
life-threatening behavior. 2010;40(4):353-368 (SSCI)
15. Hung GCL, Kuo CJ, Huang MC, Kao LH, Chen YY*: Sex differences in the
association of weight gain and risperidone efficacy among schizophrenic patients.
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry.
2010;34(8):1523-1524 (SCI)
16. Chen CC, Chen YY, Hung GCL: Tardive Dystonia Induced by Switch of Atypical
Antipsychotics. Pharmacopsychiatry. 2010;43:1-2 (SCI)
17. Chen YY, Wu KCC: Sleep habits and excessive daytime sleepiness correlate with
injury risks in the general population in Taiwan. Injury Prevention.
2010;16(3):172-177 (SSCI)
18. Chen YY, Tsai PC, Chen PH, Fan CC, Hung GCL, Cheng A.T.A.: Effect of media
reporting of the suicide of a singer in Taiwan: the case of Ivy Li. Social Psychiatry and
Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2010;45:363-369 (SSCI)
2009
19. Chang CM, Liao SC, Chiang HC, Chen YY, Tseng KC, Chau YL, Chang HJ, Lee MB:
Gender differences in health care service utilization 1 year before suicide: national
record linkage study. British Journal of Psychiatry. 2009;195(5): 459-460 (SCI/SSCI)
20. Chen YY, Lee MB, Chang CM, Liao SC: Methods of suicide in different psychiatric
diagnostic groups. Journal of Affective Disorders. 2009;118(1-3):196-200. (SCI/SSCI)
21. Chen YY, Chiang CM, Liao SC, Lee MB: Suicide sex ratio: the interaction between
mental illness and suicide methods. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 2009;70(2):294-5.
(SCI/SSCI)
22. Chen YY, Gunnell D, Lu TH: Descriptive epidemiological study of sites of suicide
jumps in Taipei, Taiwan. Injury Prevention. 2009;15(1):41-4. (SSCI)
23. Chen YY, Liao SC, Lee MB: Health care use by victims of charcoal-burning suicide
in Taiwan. Psychiatric Services. 2009;60(1):126. (SSCI)
24. Chen YY, Park NS, Lu TH: Suicide methods used by women in Korea, Sweden,
Taiwan and the United states. Journal of the Formosan Medical Association.
2009;108(6):452-9. (SCI)
25. Hung GCL, Chen YY*: Combined low-dose clozapine with low-dose aripiprazole in a
schizophrenic patient. Journal of Psychopharmacology. 2009;23(1):106-8. (SCI)
2008
26. Chen YY, Yip PSF: Rethinking suicide prevention in Asian countries. Lancet.
2008;372(9650):1629-30. (SCI)
27. Chen YY, Huang MC, Wu CC: Weight gain in a patient with schizophrenia switched
from quetiapine to amisulpride. Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.
2008;62(5):620-1. (SCI)
28. Gau SF, Chen YY, Tsai FJ, Lee MB, Chiu YN, Soong WT, Hwu HG.: Risk factors for
suicide in Taiwanese college students. Journal of American College Health.
2008;57(2):135-42. (SSCI)
2007
29. Kuo CJ, Conwell Y, Yu Q, Chiu CH, Chen YY, Tsai SY, Chen CC : Suicide by
charcoal burning in Taiwan: implications for means substitution by a case-linkage
study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 2007;43(4):286-90. (SSCI)
30. Hung GCL, Chen YY*: Extrapyramidal side effects associated with aripiprazole
administration in a schizophrenic patient. Pharmacopsychiatry. 2007;40:83-84. (SCI)
2006
31. Chen YY, Lu TH: Suicide prevention is not just about treating depression. Injury
Prevention. 2006;12:208. (SSCI)
2005
32. Weitzman ER, Chen YY, Subramanian SV: Youth smoking risk and community
patterns of alcohol availability and control: a national multilevel study. Journal of
Epidemiology and Community Health. 2005;59(12):1065-1071. (SCI/SSCI)
33. Chen YY, Kawachi I, SV Subramanian, Acevedo-Garcia D, Yue-Joe Lee: Can social
factors explain gender differences in insomnia? Findings from a national survey in
Taiwan. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2005;59(6):488-494.
(SCI/SSCI)
34. Weitzman ER, Chen YY: The risk modifying effect of social capital on measures of
heavy alcohol consumption, alcohol abuse, harms, and secondhand effects: national
survey findings. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. 2005;59(4):303-309.
(SCI/SSCI)
35. Chen YY, Weitzman ER: Depression, DSM-IV alcohol abuse and their comorbidity
among children of problem drinkers in a national survey: effects of parent and child
gender and parent recovery status. Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 2005;66(1):66-73.
(SCI)
36. Chen YY, SV Subramanian, Acevedo-Garcia D, Kawachi I: Women’s status and
depressive symptoms: a multilevel analysis. Social Science & Medicine.
2005;60(1):49-60. (SSCI)
37. Weitzman ER, Chen YY: The co-occurrence of smoking and binge drinking among
young adults in college: national survey results from the United States. Drug and
Alcohol Dependence. 2005;80:377-386. (SCI)
B. Book Chapter
1. Chen YY, Wu KCC, Yip PSF: Suicide prevention through restricting access to
suicide means and hotspots. International Handbook of Suicide Prevention:
Research, Policy and Practice. Wiley-Blackwell. 2011:545-60
2. Chen YY, Yip PSF: Prevention of suicide by jumping: experiences from Taipei City
(Taiwan), Hong Kong and Singapore. Oxford Textbook of Suicidology and Suicide
Prevention. Oxford University Press. 2009:569-72
C. Local peer reviewed journal (2005-2009)
2009
1.
Chen PH, Huang MC, Gau SSF, Chen YY*: Parenting and Children of Alcoholics.
Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry. 2009;23(3):180-88.
2008
2.
Hung GCL, Huang MC, Gau SSF, Chen YY*: Childhood sexual abuse and suicidal
behavior. Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry. 2008;22(4):268-77.
2007
3.
Yu HS, Chen YY*, Chen CC, Chiu CH, Kuo CJ, Chang H, Sung YJ: Socioeconomic
factors and suicide mortality trend in Taipei City, 1991-2004。Taiwan Journal of
Public Health. 2007;26(1):66-74. NSC grant number: (94-2314-B-532-006-)
4.
Lee KY, Chen YY*, Lee JC : Gendered symptomatology in inpatients with
schizophrenia. Taiwanese Journal of Psychiatry. 2007;21:263-70.
5.
Wu CC, Chen YY, Lee MB : Ethical analysis of suicide and suicide prevention.
Journal of Medical Education. 2007;11:8-15.
2006
6.
Lin CH, Chiu CH, Chen YY, Kuo CJ, Chen CC, Dy H, Lin CC. Characteristics of
suicide attempters in Taipei City. Taipei City Medical Journal. 2006; 3(10):
1008-1016.
7.
Chiu CH, Kuo CJ, Chen YY, Chen CC, Lee MB, Lin CH, Dy H, Lin CC:
Comparison of epidemiological characteristics between first-ever and repeated
suicide attempters. Taipei City Medical Journal. 2006;3(10):1000-1007.
8.
Kuo CJ, Chen YY, Chiu CH, Chen CC: Comparison of demographic characteristics
between suicide completion and suicide attempt in Taipei City. Taipei City Medical
Journal. 2006;3(10):992-999.
9.
Chen YY, Lu TH, Lee HJ, Chiu CH, Chen CC: Comparison of method-specific
suicide rates between Taiwan and South Korea. Taipei City Medical Journal.
2006;3(10):982-991.
10. Lu TH, Chen YY, Tu CC, Sung YJ: Method-specific suicide rates in Taipei City,
2002-2005. Taipei City Medical Journal. 2006;3(10):970-981.
D. Conference Report (only first author international conference reports in the recent
5 years are included)
1.
Chen YY: Epidemiologic characteristics and mortality outcomes among suicide
attempters in Taipei City, Taiwan. 26th World Congress of the International
Association of Suicide Prevention. Beijing, China; Sep 13-17, 2011 (oral, invited
plenary speaker)
2.
Chen YY: Media representation of gender patterns of suicide in Taiwan. 13th
International Congress of the International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology.
Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Mar 30- Apr 2, 2011 (oral)
3.
Chen YY: Clinical and Sociodemographic Characteristics of Charcoal Burning
Suicide Attempters in Taiwan. 4th Asia Pacific Regional Conference of the
International Association for Suicide Prevention, Brisbane, Australia; Nov 17-20,
2010 (oral)
4.
Chen YY: Childhood adversities and suicidal behaviors among alcoholism. 48th
Annual Meeting of Taiwanese Society of Psychiatry, Taipei, Taiwan; Nov 7-8, 2009
(oral)
5.
Chen YY: Methods of suicide in different psychiatric diagnostic groups. 12th
International Congress of International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology,
Vienna, Austria; April 16-19, 2009 (oral)
6.
Chen YY: Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of charcoal burning suicide
in Taiwan. 3rd Asia Pacific Regional Conference of International Association for
Suicide Prevention, Hong Kong, China; Oct 31-Nov 3, 2008 (oral)
7.
Chen YY: Do men prefer violent suicide methods? A comparison of South Korea,
Sweden, Taiwan and the US. 11th International Congress of the International
Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology. Göteborg Sweden; May 3-6, 2007 (oral)
8.
Chen YY, Lin JJ, Lu TH: Women of different ages in different countries used
different methods to kill themselves, a comparison of Sweden, Taiwan and the US.
Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association, Toronto, Canada; May 20-25,
2006 (oral)
E. Award
1.
Best Poster Award: Chen YY, Hung GCL, Huang MC: Childhood adversities and
suicide attempts among alcoholic patients in Taiwan. 26th World Congress of the
International Association of Suicide Prevention. Beijing, China; Sep 13-17, 2011
(poster)
2.
Best Poster Award: Chen YY, Yip PSF, Lee C, Fan HF, Fu KW: Economic
fluctuations and suicide: A comparison of Taiwan and Hong Kong. 13th International
Congress of the International Federation of Psychiatric Epidemiology. Kaohsiung,
Taiwan; Mar 30 - Apr 2, 2011 (poster)
F. Research Grant (as Primary Investigator)
Grant Title
1.
Funding agency &
Grant number
Policy and epidemiological study Department of Health
of suicide prevention
Taipei City Government
(96001-61-001-043)
Date
Amount
(in NTD)
12/01/01940,510
12/12/31
2.
Outcomes after deliberate
self-harm: Mortality risk, life
expectancy and the potential
years of life lost
Department of Health
Taipei City Government
(10101-62-042)
12/01/0112/12/31
510,011
3.
Media influence, method choice
and clinical characteristics
among charcoal burning suicide
attempters (II)
National Science Council
(100-2314-B-532-003- )
11/08/0112/07/31
850,000
4.
Exploring Risk Factors and
Outcomes of Medically Serious
Suicide Attempts
National Health Research
Institutes
(NHRI-EX100-10024PC)
11/01/0114/12/31
5,200,000
5.
Economic Fluctuations and
Department of Health
Suicide: A comparison of Taiwan Taipei City Government
and Hong Kong
(DOH NO. 33)
11/01/0111/12/31
69,400
6.
Media influence, method choice
and clinical characteristics
among charcoal burning suicide
10/08/0112/03/31
600,000
National Science Council
(99-2314-B-532-004- )
attempters
7.
Vulnerability and resiliency
among alcoholics
National Science Council 07/08/01(96-2314-B-532-004-MY3) 11/07/31
8.
Do women of different ages in
different countries use different
methods to commit suicide? A
comparison of Sweden, Taiwan
and the US.
National Science Council
(95-2314-B-532-007)
06/08/0107/07/31
803,000
Community level socioeconomic National Science Council
condition, social fragmentation, (94-2314-B-532-006)
and suicide attempt: A multilevel
analysis.
05/08/0106/07/31
875,000
9.
2,584,000
10. The Impact of Socioeconomic
and Media Factors on Suicide
Rate Trend in Taiwan,
1997-2008
Department of Health
Taipei City Government
(99001-62-016)
10/04/0112/03/31
394,572
11. Association study of
Risperidone-induced Weight
Gain and Therapeutic Response
in Schizophrenia
Department of Health
Taipei City Government
(98001-62-018)
09/08/0110/07/31
412,000
12. Attitudes of psychotic patients,
their families and the public in
Taipei towards post-mortem
brain donation
Department of Health
Taipei City Government
(96002-62-060)
08/08/0109/12/31
738,294
13. Factors associated with care
Department of Health
burden and quality of life among Taipei City Government
caretakers of the mentally ill
(97001-62-019)
08/08/0109/07/31
14. Pattern of Sites of Suicidal Jumps Department of Health
in Taipei City, Taiwan
Taipei City Government
(97001-62-007)
08/08/0109/07/31
384,959
15. Gender and psychopathology
among schizophrenic patients
Department of Health
Taipei City Government
(K-P100-B-B04-189)
08/01/0108/12/31
112,000
16. User involvement in mental
health service in Taiwan
Department of Health
Taipei City Government
(96001-62-012)
07/08/0108/07/31
434,230
17. Comparison of method-specific
suicide rates among women in
South Korea, Taiwan, Sweden
and the USA: an east and west
contrast?
Department of Health
Taipei City Government
(95004-62-162)
07/01/0107/12/31
301,000
18. Unemployment and attempted
suicide
Department of Health
Taipei City Government
06/09/0107/08/31
500,000
497,438
19. Sex and violent suicide among
suicide attempters
(95001-62-024)
Department of Health
Taipei City Government
(DOH NO. 83)
20. Community level socioeconomic Department of Health,
condition, social fragmentation
Taipei City Government
and violent suicide
(94003-62-036)
06/01/0106/12/31
86,000
05/10/0106/09/30
452,997