Yeong-Ray Wen

Yeong-Ray Wen received the M.D. degree from Medical School, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, and the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2009. He completed his resident and subspecialist training in the Department of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital. He became a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Sensory Plasticity Laboratory of the Pain Research Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women Hospital, Harvard Medical School, from 2004 to 2005. Currently, he is an Attending Doctor in the Department of Anesthesiology, Shin-Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, where he specializes in clinical anesthesia and pain management, especially in neuropathic pain and hospice care. His research interests include the fields of various animal pain models, mechanisms of acupuncture analgesia, spinal nociceptive sensitization, spinal glial activation, and morphine tolerance.