Jer Hao Chang
Associate Professor
National Cheng Kung University
Taiwan
Biography
Dr. Chang has been engaged in study and clinical service to reduce occupational injury for decades. He operates the first work-hardening center in Taiwan and serves as the department chair in occupational therapy, college of medicine, National Cheng Kung University. Under long-time experience he noticed the big discrepancy between genders in care workers and their demand for job training and assistive devices. Therefore, he joined an interdisciplinary team to develop a multi-mode lifting device with the perspective of gendered innovation and conducted the integrated research to provide evidence-based recommendations for preventing occupational injury in the long-term care worker. His studies are also expected to enhance job motivation and improve manpower shortage of long-term care worker in Taiwan. Dr. Chang received his BS degree in rehabilitation medicine from National Taiwan University in 1986, then MA in Occupational Therapy from University of Southern California in 1993, and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University in 2008. He has been both a university teacher and occupational therapist in National Chen Kung University and the affiliated hospital. Because of his excellent performance in both academic work and clinical service, he was award the National Outstanding Occupational Therapist in 2015 by the Occupational Therapists Union in Republic of China.
Research Interest
Application training of gendered innovation assistance device: To reduce occupational injury risks of care workers through a multi-mode lifting device