Professor of Clinical Pediatrics,
Columbia University
Jen-Tien Wung, M.D., FCCM is Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Columbia University, New York. He received his MD degree from Taipei Medical University in 1966. His post-graduate training included residencies in obstetrics-gynecology and anesthesiology, and fellowship in combined pediatrics and neonatal intensive care medicine at Columbia in 1973. He is board certified in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology. He is a neonatal intensivist and has directed respiratory care at the Columbia NICU since 1974. He was also a WHO consultant in China in 1987, and has participated in several National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute sponsored committees. His many awards include the “Teacher of the Year Award” from the pediatric residents in 1979, the “Thank God for Jen Wung Award” from the Neonatal Parents’ Support Network in 1995, “The First Annual Physician of the Year Award” from the Department of Nursing in 2000, the Distinguished Citizen Award (in Medicine) from his hometown I-Chu, Chia-Yi, Taiwan in 2000 and Outstanding Achievement Award from American Chinese Medical Association of New Jersey in 2005. His videotape "Respiratory Management of Neonatal RDS," was awarded the first prize in the 2nd International Video Congress "The Newborn through Pictures" in Turin, Italy in 1989.
He is a pioneer in nasal CPAP therapy (inventor of Hudson CPAP), gentler and kinder ventilation with preservation of spontaneous breathing, permissive hypercarbia, the management of infants with PPHN without hyperventilation, and the management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia infants with gentle ventilation, delayed surgery and no prophylactic chest tubes. He has published 46 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and is an active journal reviewer. He has delivered more than 200 lectures related to neonatal respiratory care in over 20 countries. He has conducted annual conferences on “Respiratory Care of the Newborn-A Practical Approach” at Columbia University in New York since 1988.
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