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Dr. Chiau-Seng Hwang (黃昭聲醫師)

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Dr. Chiau-Seng Hwang (黃昭聲醫師)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Chiau-Seng Hwang
  • Chinese: 黃昭聲醫師
  • Era: 1936-2006
  • Geography: Tainan, Taiwan
  • Core roles: physician
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Dr. Chiau-Seng Hwang 黃昭聲醫師 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心

Education

  • Kaohsiung Medical Univ. — 1963 — M.D.
  • Chang Jung Christian Univ. — 2005 — Honorary Doctorate

Employment

  • Henry Ford Hospital — Intern, Resident — (1968-1972) — Self-Employed — Internal Medicine — (1972-1990) — Changhua Christian Hospital — Dean — (1990-2004) — Community — Ann Arbor Taiwanese Association — President — Taiwanese American Presbyterian Church — Founder — FAPA (Formosan Association for Public Affairs) — Founding Member — NATMA (North American Taiwanese Medical Association) — Founding Member

Family

  • Wife: 鄭慧惠
  • Daughter: Alicia, Linda
  • Son: Hans, Henry

Role in the Community

  • NATMA founding, 1984. At the founding convention of the North American Taiwanese Medical Association on 1984-07-14 in Ypsilanti, Michigan (Western Michigan University’s Michigan Conference Center), attended by ~40 physicians, Hwang is recorded among the Michigan delegation — alongside 陳克孝, 陳哲雄, 張高文, 許世模 and others — corroborating his TAH-page status as a NATMA founding member ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys74|Our Journeys #74]], English edition [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys74-eng|Our Journeys #74 (EN)]]).
  • Chen Wen-cheng memorial, Ann Arbor. In the memoir account of the Chen Wen-cheng (陳文成) memorial held in Ann Arbor — organized amid terror and common anger, with attendees flying in from Detroit, Lansing, Chicago — Hwang is named as the one who donated the funds necessary for the service, alongside Bernie Huang’s (黃邦男) logistics, Rev. Ming-hsiung Wu’s leadership of the service, and Chao-fang Chuang’s elegy; the account records that students were deliberately not encouraged to attend for safety, yet several came anyway ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys321|Our Journeys #321]], English edition [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys321-eng|Our Journeys #321 (EN)]]).
  • NATMA recruitment network, Michigan. The Our Journeys account of the association’s founding drive describes a strategy of enlisting like-minded, trusted physicians city by city, and the English edition names “C. S. Hwang in Michigan” among those who responded enthusiastically — placing Hwang inside the recruitment network, not merely among convention attendees ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys74-eng|Our Journeys #74 (EN)]]). HOLD: the parallel Chinese passage names the Michigan responder as 黃昭; 陳英三 is additionally recorded in the Michigan delegation at the 1984 founding convention alongside Hwang ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys74|Our Journeys #74]]) — held pending verification rather than merged.
  • Presbyterian & movement founding roles. The TAH encyclopedia entry for Hwang records him as founder of the Taiwanese American Presbyterian Church and a founding member of FAPA, consistent with his NATMA founding role and his presidency of the Ann Arbor Taiwanese Association ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-2236-chiau-seng-hwang|TAH #2236 encyclopedia]]).

Sources

RECHECK 2026-09-16 (slice 09160109-19): corpus re-grep (works/ + articles/) returned the same hit set already absorbed above (ourjourneys74, ourjourneys321, whos-who-2236) — NATMA 密西根代表名單與陳文成追悼會捐費記載逐字核對無誤; no new material.

RECHECK 2026-09-16 (slice 09160400-8): corpus re-grep for 黃昭聲 / Chiau-Seng Hwang returned the same hit set (ourjourneys74, ourjourneys321 +eng, whos-who-2236, works index) — all facts already absorbed in Role in the Community; no new material, no conflicts.

RECHECK 2026-09-16 (slice 09160500-6): corpus re-grep (works/ + articles/) returned no new 黃昭聲 / Chiau-Seng Hwang material beyond the already-absorbed set (ourjourneys74, ourjourneys321, whos-who-2236); the broader 黃/Hwang sweep surfaced only unrelated Huang/Ban persons (黃智舜, 黃勝雄, 黃昭堂, 黃景生, 黃介山, Ula Hwang 等). SKIP-with-reason; no new links.

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