Dr. Hou is a professor and attending physician of Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng-Kung University. She is a specialised Geriatric Medicine and Physical Medicine Rehabilitation. She graduated from the Medical School of Taipei Medical University and pursued her master and doctoral degrees in the field of Public Health and Occupational Medicine. She holds a committee member of Joint Commission of Taiwan and served as a board supervisor of Taiwan Evidence-Based Association with the main role of advocating medicine core competency and quality improvement in health literacy and shared decision making. She is also a researcher of Cochrane Taiwan and published two Cochrane reviews related to the phototherapy and vocational rehabilitation. Her research focuses on the development and validation of assessment tools in functional assessment and patient-reported outcome. She also involved in several kinds of geriatric research related to clinical epidemiology by using Taiwan National Health Insurance Data and conducted several systematic review and meta-analyses for the effectiveness of rehabilitation strategies. Recently, she devoted in advocating both providers’/patients’ shared decision-making and empowering people’s health literacy for health communication across the life course for health care, disease prevention and health promotion.