locally. During the rst 3years of the training program, there were general radiol­ogy rotations at the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, National University Hospital (NUH), KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, and the National Neuroscience Institute. It was during this period of time that she discovered a sense of satisfaction in looking for clues in a brain scan and correlating it with the patient’s clinical symptoms, put­ting everything together to solve a puzzle, which is to arrive at a correct diagnosis for the patient. This budding interest was encouraged by a few neuroradiology men­tors, who advised her to pursue a career in this specialty. Hence, for the next 2years of subspecialty training, she chose to train in Neuroradiology and Head and Neck Imaging at the National University Hospital, the Singapore General Hospital, and the National Cancer Center. These were vital experiences as she got to “learn the trade” from various faculty members in the neuroradiology, head and neck imaging section across the island. Notable faculty members include Professor Vincent Chong, Associate Professor Goh Poh Sun, Dr Eric Ting, Dr Winston Lim, Professor Chan Ling Ling, Dr Tan Tiong Yong, Dr Lim Teh Aun, Associate Professor Francis Hui, Professor Tchoyoson Lim, Dr Sitoh Yih Yian, Dr Lishya Liauw, Dr Patrick Teo, Dr Kei Pin Lin, Dr Julian Goh, and many others, who have all generously shared their time and expertise with her during those years. Memories of walking under the hot sun to nearby coffee shops and cafes for lunch with various faculty members were unforgettable. Her entire subspeciality training concluded with an opportunity to do a visiting neuroradiology fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), sponsored by the Ministry of Health, under the Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP). At MGH she attended the training program for the MGH neuroradiology fellows and sat in during their daily reporting sessions, radiology- clinical rounds, and various tutorials. Notable faculty members like Professors Ramon Gonzalez, Otto Rapalino, Bradley Buchbinder, William Copen, Michael Lev, and Pamela Schaefer among others, have taught her generously and shared their expertise on general neuroradiology, brain tumor imaging, stroke imag­ing, and functional MRI.The MGH fellows were also friendly and welcoming and shared much with her as well.

2years of internal medicine practice at Chiayi Veterans Hospital, she completed her radiology residency at Taipei Veterans General Hospital. She then spent a year in advanced study at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the United States. Currently, Dr Wu is an attending physician in the Department of Radiology at Taipei Veterans General Hospital and an assistant professor at National Yang-Ming Chiao Tung University.

Currently, Dr Chen is an associate professor in the Department of Radiology at National Taiwan University College of Medicine and the chief of the Division of Neuroradiology in the Department of Medical Imaging at National Taiwan University Hospital. She has exceptional expertise in neuroradiology, regularly assisting clinical physicians with challenging cases and excelling in teaching both residents within the department and clinicians from other specialties. Dr Chen is a frequent speaker at various clinical department meetings and is actively involved in the educational programs of the Neuroradiology Society. She has published over 100 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. Her research focuses on demen­tia, cerebral small vessel diseases, and pediatric cerebrovascular diseases such as moyamoya disease. She has also conducted research and published work on brain tumors and head and neck cancer.

carried out by the neurosurgeons, in cooperation with the radiologists. Associate Professor Kalaya Chienpradit, a female doctor, returned from her training in the United States and practiced inclusively neuroradiology at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital and Chulalongkorn University Medical School, being the rst neuroradiologist in Thailand.