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Professor Gau is currently Vice President of National Taiwan University (NTU) Hospital and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Epidemiology, Brain and Mind Sciences, Clinical Medicine, and Occupational Therapy at NTU, Taiwan. She got Ph.D. from Yale University in 2001. She was Director of Department of Psychiatry, NTU Hospital and College of Medicine (2009-2015), Director of Department of Medical Genetics (2015~2018) at NTUH, President of the Taiwanese Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2014-2018), Vice-President of International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Allied Professionals (IACAPAP, 2014-2018), and Secretary-General of IFPE (2012-2019). She has been the editor of several IACAPAP monographs since 2014. She is a fellow of INSAR, ACNP, and PRCP. Professor Gau’s main research interests include the psychiatric, genetic, and pharmacoepidemiology of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). She has co-developed and prepared several Chinese versions of instruments for ADHD and ASD, conducted several studies on pharmacotherapy for ADHD, and been conducting follow-up, family, neuropsychological, neuroimaging, neurophysiological, microbiomes, metabolomics, and genetic studies on ADHD and ASD. Her collaborative research also covers animal (mice & flies) and cellular (iPSC) models. She has published more than 300 SCI/SSCI articles since 2001, of which she is the first author/corresponding author for more than 200 SCI/SSCI papers. She got outstanding research awards from the National Science Council (2012), National Taiwan University (2013), National Health Research Institute (2014), and NTUH (2016), Lifetime Academic Achievement Award from the Taiwanese Society of Psychiatry (2019), Physician Model Award from Taiwan Medical Association (Taiwan MA, 2020), Advancing Curiosity Award by Micron Foundation (2021), USA, 31st WANG MING-NING Award (2021), and 30th Hsin-Lin award from Taipei Medical Association (Taipei MA). Her ADHD consortium got NTUH Outstanding Research Award for contributing to medical research in 2019. She was awarded the Best Clinical Professor by the National Taiwan University College of Medicine Alumni Association in North America (2018), 2021 COVID-19 Prevention Human Right Service Award, 2022 COVID-19 Prevention Contribution Award from Taiwan MA, Special Contribution Award for COVID-19 Prevention from Taiwan MA. She received the 2020 IACAPAP Medal for her outstanding contribution to IACAPAP. Common Health Magazine elected her Doctor of the Year in 2022. She was ranked 2nd in Taiwan in Psychology and has also been recognized with Psychology Leader Award for 2023 by Research.com. She is the keynote/state-of-the-art/plenary speaker at over 20 international congresses. She and her team have presented their work in peer-reviewed Congress on over 800 occasions.
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NHRI-EX94-9407PC～NHRI-EX98-9407PC, NHRI-EX100-10008PI～NHRI-EX104-10008PI, NHRI-EX104-10404PI～NHRI-EX108-10404PI, NHRI-EX110-11002PI～NHRI-EX114-11002PI
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