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Ih Foo Lin (林毅夫醫師)

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Ih Foo Lin (林毅夫醫師)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Ih Foo Lin
  • Chinese: 林毅夫醫師
  • Era: 1942
  • Geography: 新竹市
  • Core roles: physician
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. Tinley Park Mental Health Center, Tinley Park, IL 1974 Staff Psychiatrist, Director

Education

  • 高雄醫學院 — 1967 — B.S. 醫科
  • 美國西北大學醫學中心 — 1973 — 精神科住院醫師訓練
  • Univ. of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS — 1974 — 精神科住院醫師訓練

Employment

  • Tinley Park Mental Health Center, Tinley Park, IL — Staff Psychiatrist, Director — (1974-) — Tri-City Community Mental Health Center, East Chicago, IN — Medical Director — (1982-) — Ohio — 開業醫生 — (1984-) — Community — FAPA克里夫蘭分會 — 秘書 — 克里夫蘭台灣人醫師會 — 會長 — 芝加哥台灣同鄉會 — 會長

Family

  • Wife: Chou Chie
  • Daughter: 0
  • Son: 2

Role in the Community

  • Founding participant (October 1983) of the Cleveland Taiwanese Medical Association, established at the Feng Lin Ko (楓林閣) restaurant in Cleveland with 25 doctors; he is listed among the Kaohsiung Medical University–trained founders in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys74-eng|Our Journeys #74 (EN)]]. The founders deliberately minimized politics amid White Terror-era suspicion, emphasizing mutual benefits for foreign-trained doctors; the group planned the North American Taiwanese Medical Association’s founding at the following summer’s Taiwanese American Conference – Midwest.

  • Consistent with his TAH profile roles: 會長 of the Cleveland Taiwanese Physicians Association, 秘書 of the FAPA Cleveland chapter, and 會長 of the Chicago Taiwanese Association — his 1983 chairmanship is confirmed in the successive-presidents roster (歷屆芝加哥台灣同鄉會會長: 1981 許辰昭, 1982 林宣繼, 1983 林毅夫, 1984 周茂寅, 1985 鄭天助) in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/our-journeys-378|Our Journeys #378]].

  • Author of community writings preserved in the corpus: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/203-dr-ih-foo-lin|TAH #203 — 台灣人受虐性格的心理分析 (2003-08)]] (a psychiatrist’s self-examination of Taiwanese identity) and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/307-e9-b4-a8-e6-af-8d-e7-8e-8b-e5-8f-b0-e7-81-a3-e4-ba-ba-e7-bf-bb-e8-ba-ab-e8-8|TAH #307 — 鴨母王：台灣人翻身自主的願力與掙扎]].

  • Bibliographic record: [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/35-0|TAH #35 — Ih Foo Lin 林毅夫 (2014-10-04)]].

  • Appears in a photograph in the community photo-remembrance [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys33-eng|Our Journeys #33 (ENG)]] (captioned “Dr. Geh-fu LIN and his wife”) among early-TAF-era Cleveland Taiwanese American community figures (Dr. Sidney Chang, Dr. Tien C. Cheng 鄭天助, May Cheng 鄭美津) — corroborating his presence in the same Midwest movement circle that founded the Cleveland Taiwanese Medical Association and the North American Taiwanese Medical Association.

  • 2023-06-17 — Invited speaker at the 第92回世界台灣文化論壇 (online forum), presenting 台灣人受虐性格的心理分析 — his book brought into the Taiwanese-language literary community’s forum series; 與談人 陳雷 (家庭醫生、台文作家). Event listing archived at (TJJ, 2025-04-25 存檔).

  • 2023-03-09 — TJJ carried video coverage (焦點影音) of his 世界台灣文化論壇 lecture 台灣人受虐性格的心理分析, still listed on the site’s focus-video index (TJJ 首頁存檔, 2024-06-20).

  • 2020-03-25 — Authored 今年金像獎電影「寄生上流」(PARASITE) 觀後感, carried in TJJ’s 藝文/literature index — the psychiatrist also active as a community writer on culture (TJJ 藝文分類頁, 2020-06-23 存檔).

  • 複核（deepen-x slice-09201400-10, 2026-09-21）：re-grep 林毅夫 / Ih Foo Lin（content/works + content/articles）hit set identical to the records already absorbed above (ourjourneys74 ±eng, our-journeys-378, #203, #307, #35, ourjourneys33-eng 照片說明) — SKIP, 無新材料。

  • 複核（slice deepen-x-slice-09211300-11, 2026-09-22）：re-grep hit set unchanged — saturated, SKIP.

  • 複核（slice deepen-x-slice-09220800-9, 2026-09-22）：works hit set identical；articles/ 新增 TJJ hit 3 筆已吸收於上（2023 論壇主講、2023 影音報導、2020 寄生上流觀後感）。

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