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Prof. Sze-ya Yeh (葉思雅教授)

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Prof. Sze-ya Yeh (葉思雅教授)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Prof. Sze-ya Yeh
  • Chinese: 葉思雅教授
  • Era: 1937
  • Geography: Taipei, Taiwan
  • Core roles: physician, professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Accomplishment

  1. Founder and President of Taiwanese-American Religious Study Association, Southern California (TARSA-SC)(台美人宗教研習會創立會長) 2009-present

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. College of Medicine — 1962 — M.D.
  • Yale Univ. School of Medicine — 1969 — Postdoctoral Fellowship in Perinatal Medicine

Employment

  • The Allentown Hospital, Allentown, PA — Chairman & Residency Program Director, Dept. of OB/GYN — (1984-1990) — Hahnemann Univ. School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA — Professor of OB/GYN — (1984-1991) — Temple Univ. School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA — Professor & Senior Associate Chairman, Dept. of OB/GYN — (1990-2000) — Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA — Chairman & Residency Program Director, Dept. of OB/GYN — (1990-) — Thomas Jefferson Univ., Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA — Professor, Honorary Professor, Dept. of OB/GYN — (2000-) — Community — Taiwanese-American Religious Study Association, Southern California (TARSA-SC) — Founder and President — Formosan Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles — Co-founder, One of the First Elders, and the First Choir Director — Society of Perinatal Obstetricians (Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine) — Member — North American Taiwanese Medical Association — Member

Family

  • Wife: Grace (張信惠)
  • Daughter: Carol (葉明宜)
  • Son: Michael (葉明青)

Sources

Network

Timeline (absorbed 2026-09-10 from the employment/education tables on this page)

  • 1962 — M.D., National Taiwan University College of Medicine
  • 1969 — Postdoctoral fellowship in perinatal medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
  • 1984–1990 — Chairman & Residency Program Director, Dept. of OB/GYN, The Allentown Hospital, Allentown, PA
  • 1984–1991 — Professor of OB/GYN, Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Philadelphia
  • 1990–2000 — Professor & Senior Associate Chairman, Dept. of OB/GYN, Temple University School of Medicine
  • 1990– — Chairman & Residency Program Director, Dept. of OB/GYN, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia
  • 2000– — Professor / Honorary Professor, Dept. of OB/GYN, Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Medical College
  • 2009–present — Founder and President, TARSA-SC

Family & Vault Connections (deepened 2026-09-10, vault-internal)

Vault records (deepen pass 2026-09-10)

Absorbed from the vault couple page Ye Siya & Zhang Xinhui (葉思雅、張信惠) and the taiwanjustice.net harvest pages 葉思雅 and 張信惠 (no new sources):

  • Born 1937 in Taipei to a three-generation physician family; his father, an internist, died in World War II when Ye was seven. Married 1964 to 張信惠 (Grace) — the couple met in the YMCA sacred-song choir directed by Pastor Zhang Fengchang.
  • 1967 — Joined Yale’s OB/GYN department for research training; participated in developing the first fetal heartbeat monitor, enabling prenatal detection of fetal distress. 1969 — Transferred to USC under Dr. Edward H. Hon and Dr. Edward J. Quilligan, continuing fetal-monitoring research and settling in Arcadia, CA.
  • 1974–1976 — Clinical residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (accelerated two-year program under Prof. Luigi Mastroianni); 1976–1978 — Columbia University faculty; 1979–1990 — USC Associate Professor of OB/GYN; chair of OB/GYN at Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia (recorded in the vault couple page as 1990–2002). Over 100 published papers; guest lectures worldwide.
  • 1981 — First Taiwanese obstetrician invited by the WHO to visit and lecture in China, speaking for Taiwan’s medical community. Retired from clinical medicine in 2002.
  • Co-founded TARSA in 2009 with Lin Tianmin, Huang Zhiyang, Huang Youcheng and others (TARSA-SC); monthly interfaith study sessions at the Taiwan Community Center — the vault couple page records the association’s dissolution in 2020.
  • With his wife established the classical-music appreciation program at the San Gabriel Valley Taiwanese Community Center (2015–2020); their joint 「週末漫談音樂」 column in 台灣公義報 reached its 100th issue in January 2022 (TJ milestone report).
  • 2021-10-15 — The 信雅古典音樂珍藏專區 opened at Tainan’s 許石音樂圖書館, built from the couple’s donated 10,000+ classical CD/vinyl collection (TJ report).

Role in the Community (deepen pass 2026-10-10, corpus-internal)

  • 1970 — founding support group, Formosan Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles. The church’s own history (邱惠美、李永碩, 12/2020) records that when Rev. 張瑞雄 opened the first Taiwanese church in Los Angeles, the lay supporters at the first gathering (1970-08-09, Centenary United Methodist Church) included 高光民、陳昭俊、葉思雅、李宗派、許文彬、王春雄、吳政彥 and 賴信雄 — corroborating the Who’s Who entry that he is a co-founder and one of the first elders of FPCLA ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys231|TAH #231: 洛杉磯台灣基督長老教會]]).
  • 2014 — published memoir. His own essay 「來美三十多年的回顧與感想」 (2014-11-10) is in the corpus as a first-person account of his American career ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/140-e4-be-86-e7-be-8e-e4-b8-89-e5-8d-81-e5-a4-9a-e5-b9-b4-e7-9a-84-e5-9b-9e-e9-a|TAH #140]]).
  • 2014 — music collection profiled. 李淑櫻’s interview 「專訪葉思雅醫師—從一萬多張的收藏說起」 (2014-10) documents the classical-record collection at the start of the donation program that later produced the 信雅古典音樂珍藏專區 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories120|TAH #120]]).
  • 2019 — donation reported. 「旅美名醫珍藏半世紀 萬張黑膠CD無償捐台灣」 (10/2019) covers the couple’s half-century of collecting and the free donation of 10,000+ vinyl/CD records to Taiwan ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/my-stories-703|TAH #703]]) — the collection that opened as the 信雅专区 at Tainan’s 許石音樂圖書館 in 2021 (already noted above). The same donation is recorded in English as a 2019 bibliographic entry, “Donation of more than Ten Thousand Pieces of Music Records/CD, a Life-time Collection of Dr. & Mrs. Sze-Ya Yeh, to a Music Organization in Taiwan” ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/16-donation-of-more-than-ten-thousand-pieces-of-music-records-cd-a-life-time-col|TAH #16]], published 2019-12-16).

From the record (deepen-x slice 10121722-31, corpus-internal)

  • 2015-06-15 — Who’s Who entry #447. His TAH Who’s Who encyclopedia entry “447. Prof. Sze-ya Yeh 葉思雅教授” is recorded in the corpus as a bibliographic work (published 2015-06-15) — the second encyclopedia profile of him alongside entry #63 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/whos-who-447-sze-ya-yeh|TAH #447]]).
  • 2018-08-30 — encyclopedia profile #63 published. The corpus holds his Who’s Who profile “63. Prof. Sze-ya Yeh 葉思雅教授” as a dated historical record (published 2018-08-30), corroborating the Identity Snapshot roles on this page ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/63-prof-sze-ya-yeh|TAH #63]]).
  • 2019-10-07 — private collection listed. “89. Collection of the Prof. Sze-ya Yeh 葉思雅教授的收藏” records his classical-music collection in TAH’s private-collections register (published 2019-10-07) — the same collection profiled in 2014 (TAH #120) and donated in 2019 (TAH 16) ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/private-collections-89|TAH #89]]).

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