Professor Ya Mei Bai, M.D, Ph.D.   

Director, Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital
Deputy Director, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Chao-Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan
Chief, Department of Psychiatry, National Yang-Ming Chao-Tung University

Email: ymbi@mail2000.com.tw

Published: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ya_Bai     

Professional Summary

Professor Ya Mei Bai, M.D., Ph.D. is the Director, Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital; President of Taiwanese Society of Biological Psychiatry and Neuropsychopharmacology (TSBPN), the Council of the international college of Neuropsychopharamcology (CINP), and the Council of Asian College of Neuropsychopharmacology (AsCNP). She is also full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Brain Science at the National Yang-Ming Chao-Tung University; Deputy Director, Faculty of Medicine, National Yang-Ming Chao-Tung University; Chief of Department of Psychiatry, National Yang-Ming Chao-Tung University; Chief, and Deputy Chairman and Board Member of Institutional Review Board, Taipei Veterans General Hospital. 

    Prof Bai’s main clinical and academic interests include neuro-inflammatory research in schizophrenia, depressive disorder and bipolar disorder; psychopharmacological treatment and safety studies by clinical cohort study, psycho-epidemiology big data study, and neuro-imaging study. She has published more than 400 papers in the international journals, and listed as the World’s Top 2% Scientists 2021,2022, 2023 of the most-cited scientists in various disciplines by Standford University, and in the top 1% of 2021 scholars writing about Mood Disorders over the past 10 years by Expertscape's PubMed-based algorithms. Prof. Bai has received many honors and awards including Dr. Paul Janssen Research Award of Schizophrenia, Research Award of bipoalr disorder, GSK depression and anxiety research Award, Travel Award of European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) and Japan biological and neuropsychopharmacological association. Prof Bai is also the devoted in medical education, and has been voted by the medical students as the Distinguished Teacher of National Yang-Ming Chao-Tung University for more than 10 years.

Expertise：schziophrenia, depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, psychopharmacology