{{Short description|Taiwanese pediatric hepatologist (born 1949)}} '''Chang Mei-hwei''' ({{zh|t=張美惠}}; born 1949) is a Taiwanese pediatric hepatologist.
==Career== Chang graduated from the National Taiwan University College of Medicine,<ref name="ntuhighlights"/> completed fellowship training in pediatric gastroenterology at UCLA Health,<ref>{{cite news |title=Mei-Hwei Chang, M.D. |url=http://brsseminar.nhri.org.tw/userfiles/files/2015/04Speaker/P2.pdf |access-date=20 February 2023 |publisher=National Health Research Institutes |date=2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Pediatrics: Program Graduates |url=https://www.uclahealth.org/departments/pediatrics/education/fellowships/pediatric-gastroenterology-fellowship/program-graduates |publisher=UCLA Health |date=20 February 2023}}</ref> and later returned to Taiwan, subsequently serving as a distinguished chair professor within NTU's Department of Pediatrics.<ref name="ntuhighlights">{{cite news |title=Cancer Prevention Leader― Mei-Hwei Chang |url=https://ntuhighlights.ntu.edu.tw/enews/2014_no44-01.html |access-date=20 February 2023 |work=NTU Highlights |publisher=National Taiwan University |date=August 2014}}</ref> Chang has researched hepatitis B vaccination,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wang |first1=Hsiao-wen |title='D-Day' in battle against Hepatitis B celebrated |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2004/11/12/2003210708 |access-date=20 February 2023 |work=Taipei Times |date=12 November 2004}}</ref> biliary atresia in infants,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=I-chia |title=Parents warned against biliary atresia in infants |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/10/17/2003657353 |access-date=20 February 2023 |work=Taipei Times |date=17 October 2016}}</ref> and led the Children's Liver Foundation.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Oung |first1=Angelica |title=Children with liver disease await life-saving transplant |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2007/08/05/2003372780 |access-date=20 February 2023 |work=Taipei Times |date=5 August 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=I-chia |title=Physical intimacy blamed for spike of hepatitis A cases in young people |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/07/12/2003650876 |access-date=20 February 2023 |work=Taipei Times |date=12 July 2016}}</ref> She was featured in the 2016 documentary ''Taiwan Revealed: Medical Elite''.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lee |first1=I-chia |title=Medical talent lauded in documentary |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/07/14/2003651008 |access-date=20 February 2023 |work=Taipei Times |date=14 July 2016}}</ref>
==Honors== In 2010, Chang was awarded the Outstanding Award of the Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science Awards.
In 2013, Chang was awarded the TWAS Prize in Medical Science.<ref>{{cite news |title=4 Taiwan academics elected to TWAS |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=10&post=20342 |access-date=20 February 2023 |work=Taiwan Today |date=4 October 2013}}</ref><ref name="twaspize">{{cite news |title=Mei-Hwei Chang – 2013 TWAS Prize Winner in Medical Science |url=https://twas.org/mei-hwei-chang-2013-twas-prize-winner-medical-science |access-date=20 February 2023 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences |date=2013}}</ref> The following year, she was elected an academician of Academia Sinica.<ref>{{cite news |title=Mei-Hwei Chang |url=https://academicians.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?r=academician-n%2Fshow&id=680 |access-date=20 February 2023 |publisher=Academia Sinica}}</ref> Chang was elected to fellowship within The World Academy of Sciences in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |title=Three Taiwan scholars elected to World Academy of Sciences |url=https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=10&post=129092 |access-date=20 February 2023 |work=Taiwan Today |date=6 February 2018}} [https://nspp.mofa.gov.tw/nsppe/print.php?post=129094&unit=381 Alternate URL]</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=CHANG Mei-Hwei |url=https://twas.org/directory/chang-mei-hwei |access-date=20 February 2023 |publisher=The World Academy of Sciences}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chang, Mei-hwei}} Category:Women pediatricians Category:National Taiwan University alumni Category:Members of Academia Sinica Category:Fellows of The World Academy of Sciences Category:Taiwanese women medical doctors Category:1949 births Category:Academic staff of the National Taiwan University Category:Pediatricians Category:Taiwanese medical doctors Category:Taiwanese hepatologists Category:20th-century Taiwanese medical doctors Category:21st-century women medical doctors Category:Living people Category:20th-century women medical doctors Category:Women hepatologists Category:Taiwanese medical researchers Category:Women medical researchers Category:Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science Awards recipients