221 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine HEALTH AND WELLNESS Dr. Kuang-Tzu Davis Lin was inspired to enter the medical profession byhis father, whowas aphysician. InhisnativeTaiwan, Dr. Linearned an MD from National Taiwan University in 1966 and proceeded to complete a rotating internship at National Taiwan University Hospital. For the following year, he served as a surgical officer at the Tainan Air Force Hospital prior to immigrating to the United States in 1967. Desiring to delve further into medical research, he attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned a PhD in physiological chemistry in 1971 and served as a project associate in their medical school until 1974. Relocating to Tennessee, Dr. Lin served the University of Tennessee at Knoxville College of Medicine as an assistant professor and associate professor between 1978 and 1985 and was a resident in pediatrics at the William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, from 1986 to 1987. Returning to Tennessee, he served the Meharry Medical College as an associate professor of pediatrics and co-director of the genetics department until 1996 while concurrently serving as a staff member at Hubbard Hospital and a clinical geneticist and pediatrician at Metro General Hospital. Between 1997 and 2014, Dr. Lin was a staff physician at Clover Bottom Developmental Center in Nashville. Since departing from the center, he has been a consulting physician. Throughout his career, Dr. Lin has authored several books, as well as 20 additional written works to various journals and scholarly publications. He has focused much of his research on the structure and function of human red cell carbonic anhydrases, the structure and function of mutant hemoglobin and the biochemical genetic of human hemoglobin disease. He has been named a fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics and is a member of the American Medical Association and American Society of Molecular Biological Chemistry. Certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics, Dr. Lin has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, Meharry Medical College and the Tennessee Heart Association. Looking forward, he intends to continue his work as a medical consultant for patients with disabilities. KUANG-TZU DAVIS LIN, MD, PHD STAFF PHYSICIAN (RETIRED), CONSULTING PHYSICIAN Clover Bottom Developmental Center Brentwood, TN
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