Doctor Tze-Fan Chao

Tze-Fan Chao is an Associate Professor at National Yang-Ming University and attending physician at the Division of Cardiology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan. Dr Chao’s main clinical interest is device implantation. His research interests are in the areas of atrial fibrillation, including epidemiology, stroke risk stratification and oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention. He has published more than 60 original articles as first, co-first or corresponding author in SCI journals including Circulation, JACC, European Heart Journal, Stroke, Chest, Heart, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Heart Rhythm, and etc. Currently, he is the chair of the APHRS practical guideline subcommittee and section editor of “Thrombosis and Haemostasis”. He is also a reviewer for several international journals, including Circulation, JACC, EHJ, and etc. He has been invited to give presentations at important international conferences, including AHA, ACC, ESC, and etc.