**Hann-Chorng Kuo**

Dr. Hann-Chorng Kuo graduated from National Taiwan University (NTUH) in 1979. He underwent his residency training for four years after serving in the army. He was promoted to visiting staff in NTUH and became a lecturer at the National Taiwan University in 1985. Then he went to Hofuf, Saudi Arabia and served in Hofuf General Hospital for one year as a diplomatic supportive doctor. In 1988, Hann-Chorng moved to Tzu Chi General Hospital, Hualien, Taiwan and served as the chief of the department of Urology in Tzu Chi General Hospital (TCGH), where he remains to this day. During these years, Hann-Chorng devoted himself to clinical and research works in neurourology and urodynamics. He developed a videourodynamic laboratory and a wet lab for human bladder tissue and animal research in TCGH. Through detailed clinical observations and over 16,000 videourodynamic studies, Hann-Chorng has published more than 650 peer-reviewed papers and wrote more than 10 monographs in the fields of general urology, urodynamics, bladder outlet obstruction, neurogenic bladder, female urology, and overactive bladder. The interests of Hann-Chorng are numerous. Recently he has had interest in biomarkers for an overactive bladder, such as urinary nerve growth factor, serum CRP, cytokines, and bladder wall thickness; clinical application of botulinum toxin in lower urinary tract dysfunction; and pathophysiology of interstitial cystitis and painful bladder syndrome. He has also devoted a lot of time to continence promotion and the educational program of incontinence and voiding dysfunction as part of the Taiwanese Continence Society (TCS). Hann-Chorng gained his professor title from the Tzu Chi University School of Medicine in 2001, was the president of the TCS in 2006 through 2012, and was the president of the Taiwan Urological Association (TUA) from 2014 to 2016.
