Curriculum Vitae

Author: Sheng-Ta Tsai

Sheng-Ta Tsai, MD

Doctor Tsai has devoted his life to Parkinson’s disease, movement disorder, stroke care, and neurocritical disease. He is a member of the movement disorder group led by Professor Chon-Haw Tsai. He has joined the deep brain stimulation intra-operative multichannel microelectrode recording (MER) and has performed basic studies for Parkinson’s disease. He is also a stroke neurologist performing intra-arterial thrombectomy for hyperacute large artery occlusion patients. And in the intensive care unit, he takes care of patients with severe stroke, status epilepticus, or severe central nervous system infection. Doctor Tsai has won high reward in the improvement of patients, including the regaining consciousness. In the intensive care unit, he often says to patients, “Our goal is your being able to walk back home without others’ assistance.”

Education: 

School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (Sep 2005-Jun 2012)
China Medical University, Graduate Institute of Acupuncture Science, Master and Ph.D. Program (Aug 2018- Sep 2021)


Employment:
Taichung Veterans General Hospital, PGY, Aug 2013-Jul 2014
China Medical University Hospital, R1-R5, Aug 2014-Jul 2019
China Medical University Hospital, Attending doctor, Aug 2019-

Assistant professor of China Medical University, Feb 2023-

Visiting scholar at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Jan 2024-


Certificate:
Doctor in Taiwan, No. 049345, Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare
Neurologist in Taiwan, No. 1232, Taiwan Neurological Society

Certificated intra-arterial thrombectomy doctor in Taiwan, No. 051
Acupuncture doctor, No. 2555, Chinese Medical Association of Acupuncture (CMAA)

Specialist in Critical Care Medicine in Taiwan, No. 03334

Diabetes Combined Care Accreditation of Taichung City, Taiwan

Academic Teaching Rank Accreditation Certificate Assistant Professor, No. 154759


SCI papers: (IF= Impact factor; R/C= Ranking/ Category; *corresponding author)

Systemic review and meta-analysis: (3)

1.       Sheng-Ta Tsai, Ming-Kuei Lu, Shao San, *Chon-Haw Tsai. The Neurologic Manifestations of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: A Systemic Review. Front Neurol. 2020 May 19;11:498. IF= 4.086. (R/C= 88/212, Clinical Neurology), cited by 103

2.     Sheng-Ta Tsai, Srinivasan Nithiyanantham, Senthil Kumaran Satyanarayanan, *Kuan-Pin Su. Anti-Inflammatory Effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine on the Concept of Mind-Body Interface. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2023;1411:435-458. IF= 3.650. (R/C= 33/94, Biology)

3.     Chia-Chun Yang, Sheng-Ta Tsai, Berne Ting, Ying-Chih Cheng, Chin-Kun Wang, Jane Pei-Chen Chang, *Kuan-Pin Su. Psychological Outcomes and Quality of Life of Fibromyalgia Patients with Vitamin D Supplementation—A Meta-Analysis. J. Clin. Med. 2023, 12(7), 2750. IF= 4.964. (R/C= 55/172, Medicine, General & Internal)

 

Original articles: (6)

4.       Sheng-Ta Tsai, Wei-Chun Wang, Yu-Ting Lin, Wei-Shih Huang, Hung-Yu Huang, Chun-Ju Wang, En-Zu Lin, Wei-Ling Kung, Yuh-Cherng Guo, Kang-Hsu Lin, Ming-Kuei Lu, Pao-Sheng Yen, Wei-Liang Chen, Ying-Lin Tseng, Chin-Chi Kuo, Der-Yang Cho, Chun-Chung Chen, *Chon-Haw Tsai. Use of a smartphone application to speed up interhospital transfer of acute ischemic stroke patients for thrombectomy. Front Neurol. 2021; 12: 606673. IF= 4.086. (R/C= 88/212, Clinical Neurology)

5.       Sheng-Ta Tsai, *Fu-Yu Lin, Pei-Shan Chen, Hsiu-Yin Chiang, Chin-Chi Kuo. Three-year mortality in cryptococcal meningitis: Hyperglycemia predict unfavorable outcome. PLoS One. 2021 May 28;16(5):e0251749. IF= 3.752. (R/C= 29/73, Multidisciplinary Sciences)

6.       Sheng-Ta Tsai, Tzu-Hsuan Wei, Yu-Wan Yang, Ming-Kuei Lu, Shao San, Chon-Haw Tsai, *Yi-Wen Lin. Transient receptor potential V1 modulates neuroinflammation in Parkinson’s disease dementia: Molecular implications for electroacupuncture and rivastigmine. Iran J Basic Med Sci 2021; 24: 1336-1345. IF= 2.532. (R/C= 112/139, Medicine, Research & Experimental)

7.       Sheng-Ta Tsai, Chun-Hung Tseng, Mei-Chen Lin, Hsien-Yin Liao, Boon-Khai Teoh, Shao San, Chon-Haw Tsai, Hung-Yu Huang, *Yi-Wen Lin. Acupuncture reduced the medical expenditure in migraine patients: Real-world data of a 10-year national cohort study. Medicine (Baltimore). 2020 Aug 7;99(32):e21345. IF= 1.817. (R/C= 122/172, Medicine, General and Internal)

8.     Yu-Chen Chiu, Jia-Li Yang, Wei-Chun Wang, Hung-Yu Huang, Wei-Liang Chen, Pao-Sheng Yen, Ying-Lin Tseng, Hsiu-Hsueh Chen, *Sheng-Ta Tsai. Predictors of unfavorable outcome at 90 days in basilar artery occlusion patients. World J Clin Cases 2022; 10(12): 3677-3685. IF= 1.534. (R/C= 135/172, Medicine, General and Internal)

9.    Sheng-Ta Tsai, Chia-Chun Yang, Hsien-Yin Liao, and Yi-Wen Lin. Electroacupuncture Reduces Fibromyalgia Pain via Neuronal/Microglial Inactivation and Toll-like Receptor 4 in the Mouse Brain: Precise Interpretation of Chemogenetics. Biomedicines 2024; 12(2): 387. IF= 4.7. (R/C= 94/315, Biochemistry and molecular biology)

 

Case report: (6)

10.       Sheng-Ta Tsai, Jheng-Zong Tien, Yin-Lan Lin, Yen-Cheng Lai, *An-Ti Chang. Gastrointestinal: Refractory paralytic ileus cured by immunotherapy, a case of natural killer cell neoplasm-induced polyneuropathy. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2020 Dec 10. IF= 4.369. (R/C= 43/93, gastroenterology and hepatology)

11.       Shao Hor, Chih-Yu Chen, *Sheng-Ta Tsai. Propofol pump controls nonconvulsive status epilepticus in a hepatic encephalopathy patient: A case report. World J Clin Cases. 2019 Sep 26;7(18):2831-2837. IF= 1.534. (R/C= 135/172, Medicine, General and Internal)

12.       Camerdy Yue Yang, *Sheng-Ta Tsai. Glutamic acid decarboxylase 65-positive autoimmune encephalitis presenting with gelastic seizure, responsive to steroid: A case report. World J Clin Cases 2021; 9(19): 5325-5331. IF= 1.534. (R/C= 135/172, Medicine, General and Internal)

13.     Shao San, Chia-der Lin, Sheng-Ta Tsai, Chao-Chun Lin, *Po-Chang Wu. Immunoglobulin G4-Related Disease Presented as Recurrent Otitis Media and Mixed Hearing Loss Treated With Cyclophosphamide and Rituximab: A Case Report. Arch Rheumatol. 2018 Nov 30;34(2):233-237. IF= 1.007 (R/C= 33/34, Rheumatology)

14.    *Sheng-Ta Tsai, Wei-Shih Huang, Shin-Kuang Jiang, Hsien-Yin Liao. Cervical spinal epidural abscess following needle-knife acupotomy, with an initial presentation that mimicked an acute stroke: A case report. Hong Kong Journal of Emergency Medicine. 2020;27(2):99-102. IF= 0.529 (R/C= 32/32, Emergency Medicine)

15.   Shin-Kuang Jiang, Wei-Liang Chen, Chun Chien, Chi-Syuan Pan, *Sheng-Ta Tsai. Rapid progressive vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia with cerebral venous thrombosis after ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AZD1222) vaccination: A case report. World J Clin Cases 2022 Sep 16; 10(26): 9462-9469. IF= 1.534. (R/C= 135/172, Medicine, General and Internal)