Esther Ching-Lan Lin
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) and Hospital, Taiwan
Biography
Esther Ching-Lan Linis an Associate Professor in the Department of Nursing, College of Medicine, National ChengKung University, and adjunct Head Nurse of the Department of Psychiatry, National ChengKung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan. She has been a nurse, a manager, a teacher, and an advisor for 18 years. After completing her PhD at National Taiwan University. She continued her academic career in nursing education and has focused on improving the quality of care for patients with severe mental illness. She has published 30 papers in English-language and Chinese-language journals—most recently on developing and evaluating psychosocial treatments for patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder—and has been an editorial board member for the past 3 years of a national nursing journal in Taiwan.