[Profile]

• Career and Experience

  Current Positions：
  • - Now, Attending physician, Hospitalist ward (HW), Department of internal medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital,
  • - Now, Adjunct attending physician, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of internal medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital,
  Experiences：

• Medical Expertise

  1. Autoimmune diseases and rheumatic diseases: Sjogren’s syndrome, systemic sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis
  2. Soft-tissue ultrasonography
  3. Evidence-based medicine

[Publications]

1. Yen-Po Tsao, Fang-Yu Tseng, Chih-Wei Chao, Ming-Han Chen, Yi-Chen Yeh, Babamale Olarewaju Abdulkareem, Se-Yi Chen, Wen-Ting Chuang, Pei-Ching Chang, I-Chun Chen, Pin-Hsuan Wang, Chien-Sheng Wu, Chang-Youh Tsai, Szu-Ting Chen. NLRP12 is an innate immune checkpoint for repressing IFN signatures and attenuating lupus nephritis progression. J Clin Invest . 2023 Feb 1;133(3):e157272. (IF: 11.459)
2. Tsao Yen-Po, Tseng Fang-Yu, Chen Ming-Han, Chen Szuting. NLRP12 Deficiency Mice Present Severer Lupus Nephritis in a Pristane-Induced Lupus Like Model. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2022; 74 (suppl 9). (IF: 15.483)
3. Po-Chun Liu, Chih-Tai Ssu, Yen-Po Tsao, Teh-Ling Liou, Chang-Youh Tsai, Chung-Tei Chou, Ming-Han Chen, Chuen-Miin Leu. Cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen-4-Ig (CTLA-4-Ig) suppresses Staphylococcus aureus-induced CD80, CD86, and pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in human B cells. Arthritis Res Ther. 2020 Mar 30;22(1):64. (IF: 5.606)
4. Tzu-Hao Li, Chien-Chih Lai, Wen-Hsiu Wang, Wei-Sheng Chen, Yen-Po Tsao, Chang-Youh Tsai, Yu-Sheng Chang. Risk of severe herpes simplex virus infection in systemic lupus erythematosus: analysis of epidemiology and risk factors analysis in Taiwan. Ann Rheum Dis. 2019 Jul;78(7):941-946. (IF: 28.003)
5. Yen-Po Tsao, Wei-Sheng Chen. Maffucci syndrome. J Rheumatol. 2015;42:2434-5. (IF: 5.346)