A specialist in high blood pressure and heart disease, Benjamin N. Chiang, M.D., is a member of the Pharmanex Scientific Advisory Board, Taiwan. He is also President of the International Lipids Information Bureau, Taiwan, and of the Research Foundation of Cardiovascular Medicine of Taiwan. For 10 years, Prof. Chiang was Dean of the School of Medicine of National Yang Ming University, Taiwan, and is now Professor Emeritus. Prof. Chiang's long and distinguished career has also included positions in the U.S. and U.K. He received his medical education at the National Defense Medical College, Taiwan, and at the University of London Institute of Cardiology and the University of Michigan School of Medicine and Public Health. In Taiwan, he has served as President of the Societies of Cardiology, Lipids and Atherosclerosis and Internal Medicine. He is Editor of the journals Echocardiography (U.S.) and Journal of the American Medical Association (SE Asia Edition). Prof. Chiang is the author of some 300 scientific publications.