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Dr. Chin-Ming Chen (陳欽明醫師)

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Dr. Chin-Ming Chen (陳欽明醫師)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Chin-Ming Chen
  • Chinese: 陳欽明醫師
  • Era: —
  • Geography: Pingtung, Taiwan(台灣屏東)
  • Core roles: physician
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. President of The Greater New York Region Overseas Taiwanese Pen Club(大紐約區海外台灣人筆會筆會會長) 2016-2017

Education

  • Kaohsiung Medical Univ. — B.S., Medical

Employment

  • Anesthesiologist — Greater New York Region Overseas Taiwanese Pen Club — President — (2016-2017) — Kaohsiung Medical University America Alumni Association — Chairman, Board of Directors — (2002-2006) — Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) — Co-founder — (2016-) — Greater New York Taiwanese Pen Club — Editor-in-Chief, Taiwanese American Literature Collections — (2018-2019) — Community — Greater New York Region Overseas Taiwanese Pen Club — President (2016-2017) — Kaohsiung Medical University America Alumni Association — Chairman, Board of Directors (2002-2006) — Global Taiwan Institute (GTI) — Co-founder

Timeline

Absorbed from the on-page biography and tables (no external sources):

  • From 屏東 (Pingtung), Taiwan; also known as Dr. Chin-Ming Stephen Chen (per TAH #102 / #17).
  • Kaohsiung Medical University — B.S., Medical; practiced as an anesthesiologist in the Greater New York region.
  • 2002–2006 — Chairman, Board of Directors, Kaohsiung Medical University America Alumni Association.
  • 2016– — co-founder, Global Taiwan Institute (GTI).
  • 2016–2017 — President, 大紐約區海外台灣人筆會 (Greater New York Region Overseas Taiwanese Pen Club).
  • 2018–2019 — Editor-in-Chief, Taiwanese American Literature Collections (Greater New York Taiwanese Pen Club).

Family

  • Wife: 劉惠昭

Sources

Connected in the Vault

  • Archival profiles: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/102-dr-chin-ming-stephen-chen|TAH #102]] · [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-899-chin-ming-chen|TAH #899]] · [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/videos17|TAH #17 (video record channel)]]
  • Community hub: TAH story corpus hub

Deepen — 2026-09-14 (vault-only re-check)

All cited records (#102, #899, #17) remain fully absorbed; GTI and the Greater New York Region Overseas Taiwanese Pen Club links resolve. His 2018–2019 editor-in-chief role for the Taiwanese American Literature Collections sits within the broader pen-club movement documented in the vault at |Taiwanese American Pen Club. The Kaohsiung Medical University America Alumni Association has no vault page and stays plain text.

Vault re-check 2026-09-14 (deepen-x slice 09140020-6, vault-only)

All wikilink targets (#102, #899, #17, GTI, pen-club pages) verified to exist in the vault; the three cited TAH records are band-B bibliographic pages with no additional absorbable text. No new vault facts found, no web used, no new pages, nothing published.

Vault re-check 2026-09-14 (deepen-x slice 09140845-3, vault-only)

All wikilink targets re-verified to exist in the vault; all cited-source facts remain as absorbed in prior deepen passes. No new vault facts, no web used, no new pages, nothing published.

Deepen — 2026-10-10 (deepen-x slice 10081500-18, vault-only)

Fresh ZH+EN grep across works/articles/sources/events/topics surfaced his own first-person writings in the story corpus, previously unlinked from this page:

  • 2017 — published in the TAH story corpus: 出故鄉台灣之路 (essay, 05/2017) and 終身大事來臨時 (essay, 05/2017).
  • 2017 — autobiography and travel writings: 草地游子也憶錄 (autobiography, 06/2017) and 草地游子旅遊記 (life/travel, 06/2017). “草地游子” (grassland wanderer) is his self-designated pen persona.
  • His donated archive is a vault record in its own right: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/collection-of-dr-stephen-chen|陳欽明醫師的收藏 (TAH #14, Collection of Dr. Stephen Chen)]].
  • Pen Club history (ourjourneys12): the 大紐約區海外台灣人筆會 lists him as the 5th president, after 林興隆 (2nd), 郭正昭 (3rd, late 2012), 李正三 (4th, early 2015) — corroborating the 2016–2017 presidency as membership-recorded.
  • HOLD: pen-club succession date conflict — the page/TAH bio says president 2016–2017, but ourjourneys12 says 陳欽明醫師繼任 in 2015 (“2015年由陳欽明醫師繼任第五任會長至今年2017年底”). Not auto-merged.
  • Name disambiguation: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-1690-stephen-chen|TAH #1690 “Dr. Stephen Chen 陳貞華博士”]] is a different person (陳貞華) despite the shared English name — do not conflate with this page’s Stephen Chen alias (陳欽明).

Vault re-check 2026-10-11 (deepen-x slice 10101200-16, vault-only)

Fresh ZH+EN+surname grep (陳欽明 / Chin-Ming / Stephen Chen / 欽明) across all 5 corpus dirs returned only records already fully absorbed in prior passes: TAH #14 (collection), #17 (影音紀錄頻道), #102, #899, ourjourneys12 (pen-club succession, HOLD stands), mystories547. Remaining hits were index/hub pages with no biographical material. No new vault facts, no web used, no new pages, nothing published.

Vault re-check 2026-10-12 (deepen-x slice 10110805-15, vault-only)

Fresh ZH+EN+surname grep (陳欽明 / Chin-Ming / Stephen Chen / 欽明) across all 5 corpus dirs. Two new-name hits evaluated and set aside as different persons, not absorbed:

  • TA roll-call (COVID-19) mentions “Taiwanese American business owner Stephen Chen” of Scanwell Health (free UTI testing kits) — a business owner, not the NY-region anesthesiologist; no 漢名 given, treated as distinct. That record’s own wikilink resolves to Dr. Stephen Chen (陳貞華博士), already flagged as a different person above.
  • Pew Taiwanese American statement lists “Stephen Chen” among signatories with no 漢名 — indeterminate, not attributed.

All other hits (TAH 899, ourjourneys12, mystories547/549, publications1135/1136, whos-who-1690) were already fully absorbed in prior passes; the 2015-vs-2016 pen-club succession HOLD stands. No new vault facts, no web used, no new pages, nothing published.

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