Chang Mei-hwei (; born 1949) is a Taiwanese pediatric hepatologist.

Career

Chang graduated from the National Taiwan University College of Medicine, completed fellowship training in pediatric gastroenterology at UCLA Health, and later returned to Taiwan, subsequently serving as a distinguished chair professor within NTU's Department of Pediatrics. Chang has researched hepatitis B vaccination, biliary atresia in infants, and led the Children's Liver Foundation. She was featured in the 2016 documentary Taiwan Revealed: Medical Elite.

Chang Mei-hwei

Honors

In 2013, Chang was awarded the TWAS Prize in Medical Science. The following year, she was elected an academician of Academia Sinica. Chang was elected to fellowship within The World Academy of Sciences in 2018.

Chang Mei-hwei

References

Women pediatricians

National Taiwan University alumni

Members of Academia Sinica

TWAS fellows

Taiwanese women physicians

1949 births

Academic staff of the National Taiwan University

Taiwanese pediatricians

Taiwanese hepatologists

20th-century Taiwanese physicians

21st-century women physicians

Living people

20th-century women physicians

Women hepatologists

Taiwanese medical researchers

Women medical researchers

Chang Mei-hwei