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Dr. Jia-Rhon Chen (陳家榮醫師)

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Dr. Jia-Rhon Chen (陳家榮醫師)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Jia-Rhon Chen
  • Chinese: 陳家榮醫師
  • Era: 1940
  • Geography: Yunlin, Taiwan
  • Core roles: physician, professor, artist, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Eleanor Heartney, a contributing editor to Art in America and author of Critical Condition: American Culture at Crossroads, wrote of Jia-Rhon Chen’s artworks: “Dr. Chen blends bold color and cubistic forms which might be seen as part of his western inheritance with sure quick brush strokes that hark back to the tradition of Asian calligraphy. This mixing of reference is evident in other works which perform a similar operation on the landscape of Taiwan, transforming it into a kaleidoscopic vision of movement and change….”

Career & Community Service

(absorbed from the TAH tables below and the encyclopedia sources cited on this page)

  • 1965 — MD, Medical, National Taiwan Univ.
  • Neurology training, New York University School of Medicine (per the #26 memorial slideshow biography, 台大醫學院，紐約大學醫學院神經科畢業)
  • 1973–2010 — Neurologist, Veterans’ Administration Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY; concurrently Associate Professor, SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital
  • 1991–2015 — First Chairman of the Board of Directors, |Formosa Chamber Music Society, Inc. (TAH #39)
  • 1995–1997 — President, National Taiwan University Alumni Association, Greater New York Chapter
  • 2001–2003 — President, National Taiwan University Medical College Alumni Association, Greater New York Chapter
  • 2003–2005 — Chairman of the Board of Directors, National Taiwan University Medical College Alumni Association of North America

Role in the Community

  • The community essay |Our Journeys (ourjourneys291) places him among the Taiwanese-American physician-artists — “陳家榮自小喜歡繪畫，一邊當醫師，一邊畫出自己的一片天” — alongside pathologist-painter 施哲三 and physician-painter 許明彥.
  • Painting practice: member of the art societies 台陽畫會, 蘆畫會, 芳蘭畫會 and the New York Long Beach (長堤) art society, per the biographical note in the memorial slideshow [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/26-memorial-slideshow-for-dr-jia-rhon-chen-e9-99-b3-e5-ae-b6-e6-a6-ae-e9-86-ab-e||#26 陳家榮醫師生命的禮讚 (2015)]]. His art is catalogued as TAH #904 (Art/藝術, 1993) — [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/publications904||#904 陳家榮 JIA-RHON CHEN (1993)]] — and his personal collection as [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/collection-of-dr-jia-rhon-chen||#44 Collection of Dr. JIA-RHON CHEN 陳家榮醫師的收藏]].
  • The artist-writer 黃根深’s exhibition essay [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys256||#256 寫在畫展之前 (2016/10)]] reproduces his entry from the 中西部台灣人夏令會手冊 (1985): born 1940 in 雲林縣; 台大醫學院 and NYU neurology training; “曾任紐約布魯克林退伍軍人醫院腦科主治醫師”; won a prize in the pastel-painting section of the Audubon exhibition in New York; exhibited in Taiwan and New York, with solo shows at the Manhattan Art Center and St. John’s University.
  • His wife 黃春英 authored two TAH stories on his art: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/245-e9-99-b3-e5-ae-b6-e6-a6-ae-e9-86-ab-e5-b8-ab-e7-9a-84-e7-b9-aa-e7-95-ab-e5-a||#245 陳家榮醫師的繪畫境界 (2015/05)]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories573||#573 畫家陳家榮醫師為行醫與藝術兩全之奮鬥史 (2017/09)]].
  • The commemorative album [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/photo-albums-activities-101||#101 In memory of Dr. Jia-Rhon Chen — 陳家榮醫師生命的禮讚 (2015/11)]] and the memorial slideshow [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/26-memorial-slideshow-for-dr-jia-rhon-chen-e9-99-b3-e5-ae-b6-e6-a6-ae-e9-86-ab-e||#26]] plus [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/56-jia-rhon-chen-201511||#56 陳家榮 JIA-RHON CHEN (2015/11)]] indicate he died in late 2015, matching the end of his Formosa Chamber Music Society chairmanship tenure (1991–2015). HOLD: no explicit death record found in corpus; the date is inferred from the memorial album.

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1965 — MD, Medical

Employment

  • Veterans’ Administration Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY — Neurologist — (1973-2010) — SUNY Downstate Medical Center University Hospital — Associate Professor — Formosa Chamber Music Society, Inc. — Chairman of the Board of Directors — (1991-2015) — National Taiwan University Alumni Association, Greater New York Chapter — President — (1995-1997) — National Taiwan University Medical College Alumni Association, Greater New York Chapter — President (2001-2003) — National Taiwan University Medical College Alumni Association of North America — Chairman of the Board of Directors (2003-2005) — Community — Formosa Chamber Music Society, Inc. — Chairman of the Board of Directors (1991-2015) — National Taiwan University Alumni Association, Greater New York Chapter — President (1995-1997) — National Taiwan University Medical College Alumni Association, Greater New York Chapter — President (2001-2003) — National Taiwan University Medical College Alumni Association of North America — Chairman of the Board of Directors (2003-2005)

Vault records

His TAH encyclopedia entries are harvested in the vault: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/59-dr-jia-rhon-chen||TAH #59]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/273-e9-99-b3-e5-ae-b6-e6-a6-ae-e9-86-ab-e5-b8-ab-dr-jia-rhon-chen-first-chairman||TAH #273 (life story, 陳黃春英, 2015/10)]], [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/355-the-life-story-of-dr-jia-rhon-chen-e9-99-b3-e5-ae-b6-e6-a6-ae-e9-86-ab-e5-b8||TAH #355]], and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-707-jia-rhon-chen||TAH #707]]. His chairmanship tenure and the society’s founding year are corroborated on the |Formosa Chamber Music Society page. Wife 黃春英 appears in the #355 life-story title (陳黃春英). Two further wife-authored works on his painting are linked above: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/245-e9-99-b3-e5-ae-b6-e6-a6-ae-e9-86-ab-e5-b8-ab-e7-9a-84-e7-b9-aa-e7-95-ab-e5-a||#245]] and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories573||#573]]; the memorial album [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/photo-albums-activities-101||#101 (2015/11)]] and the community essay |ourjourneys291 round out the corpus trail.

Family

  • Wife: 黃春英
  • Daughter: Elizabeth&Michelle
  • Son: Alexander

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