Journal of Aging Science

Shu-Hui Yeh

Shu-Hui Yeh, PHD
Editor-in-Chief
Professor, Department of Nursing
Mackay Medical College, Taiwan, Province of China

Biography

Shu Hui Yeh, RN, MS, PhD graduated from Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan in 1984, and got PhD at University of Utah in 1995. She received clinical training on the nursing of internal medicine for 2 years at Veteran General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. She became a nurse practitioner at University of Utah in 1989, and got his PhD degree at University of Utah in 1995. She served as an associate professor at National Defense Medical Center between 1996 and 1998, and at Kaohsiung Medical University between 1998 and 2001. She was promoted as a full professor at Chang Gung University of Technology at 2006, and did her sabbatical year (2007-2008) at Geriatric Center of Johns Hopkins University with the mentor of Professor Fried. She served as President of Taiwan Nurse Practitioner Association between 2012 and 2015, in which she has coordinated to make the Special Law for Nurse Practitioners. She has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in Nursing and Long Term Care. She is especially interested in effects of exercise and functional foods on healthy aging and anti-aging development. Recently she is studying how exercise and functional foods on improvement of senescence associated secretary phenotype (SASP) monitored by urinary exosomes.

Research Interest

Active aging, outcome evaluation, intervention study, community nursing, long-term care, nurse practitioner