Assistant Professor
National Taiwan University Hospital
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Zhen-Fang Lin is the assistant professor of the School of Pharmacy & Graduate Institute of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University and also a pharmacist in National Taiwan University Hospital. She has graduated from School of Pharmacy, National Taiwan University in 1994 and serve as teaching assistant for one year. She has completed her MPH degree from School of Public Health, University of Minnesota in the United States. During 1997-2012, she serves as a clinical pharmacist and section chief of teaching & research of the pharmacy department at Shin-Kong Hospital. She has completed her PhD degree from National Taiwan University in 2012. Her research and teaching interest includes the safety and effectiveness of pharmacotherapy in patients with cardiovascular and other diseases, public health in pharmacy, ethics, long term care, palliative care and new uses of old drugs.
My research focuses on the effectiveness and safety outcomes of a range of medications used to treat patients with acute coronary syndrome or atrial fibrillation was conducted using a 7-year nationwide population-based data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD). The NHIRD contains all claims data for all outpatient and inpatient visits covered by Taiwan’s National Health Insurance program (over 99% of the entire Taiwanese population of approximately 23.7 million people). Subsets of the database are provided to scientists in Taiwan for research purposes.
We have already completed several cohort studies with propensity score-matching approach and Cox proportional hazards regression model for main data analysis-statins use and the risk of prostate cancer in ischemic heart disease patients in Taiwan, clinical effectiveness of ezetimibe co-administered with statins in patients after hospitalization for ACS, impact of concomitant use of clopidogrel and PPIs on the cardiovascular outcomes of patients with ACS.