Chen Yi-min

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chen.

Chen Yi-ming (Chinese: 陳宜民; pinyin: Chén Yímíng), also known as Arthur Chen, is a Taiwanese politician and oncologist.^[1] He was the vice president of Kaohsiung Medical University and a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2016 to 2020.^[2]

Chen Yi-ming MLY
陳宜民
Member of the Legislative Yuan
In office 1 February 2016 – 31 January 2020
Preceded by	Tseng Chu-wei
Succeeded by	Lí Kuì-bín
Constituency	Proportional Representation No.3
Personal details
Political party	Kuomintang
Education	National Yang-Ming University (MD, MS) Harvard University (DSc)

Before entering politics, Chen graduated from National Yang-Ming University and earned his doctorate from Harvard University. His medical research focuses on cancer, AIDS and epidemiology.^[2]

Education

Chen graduated with a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) in 1982 from National Yang-Ming University, where he was first in his class. In 1984, he earned a Master of Science (M.S.) from the university's Graduate Institute of Microbiology and Immunology. After completing his compulsory military service in Taiwan in 1986, Chen went to the United States to pursue graduate studies at Harvard University, where he earned a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) specializing in cancer research in under four years under the supervision of virologist Max Essex.^[3]

After receiving his doctorate, Chen was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, where he studied molecular oncology.^[3]

Career

He was the party-list legislator of the Kuomintang in the 9th Legislative Yuan from 2016 to 2020.^[2] During the 2019 protest on 2019, he pushed a female police officer and he apologized for that behavior.^[1]

In May 2018, he joined the Kuomintang's Kaohsiung mayoral primary campaign. Han Kuo-yu won that campaign and was subsequently nominated as the party's mayoral candidate.^[4]