Liaw Yun-fan

Liaw Yun-fan (Chinese: 廖運範; born 1942) is a Taiwanese hepatologist.

He attended Hsinchu Senior High School and earned his medical degree from the College of Medicine at National Taiwan University in 1967.[1] Liaw completed his residency in internal medicine at National Taiwan University, where he became chief resident.[1][2] After Liaw's residency, he began teaching as a clinical assistant professor at the National Defense Medical Center. He joined the Chang Gung University Medical College faculty in 1987, having served as director of the affiliated Department of Hepato-Gastroenterology and the Liver Research Unit at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital since 1976.[1] Liaw was named a member of the Academia Sinica in 2000.[3] That same year, he helped compile a hepatitis B prevention guide for use across Asia after attending the International Liver Congress in Fukuoka, Japan.[4] In 2012, Liaw was appointed distinguished chair professor, and was honored by the European Association for the Study of the Liver as the 2013 recipient of its International Recognition Award.[1][5]

Liaw has been critical of Pan-Blue Coalition supporters and policies.[6] In 2013, he signed a petition opposing the implementation of the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement.[7] In 2017, he lent support to a petition advocating the protection of corals found near Guantang Industrial Park in Taoyuan.[8] Liaw signed a petition in April 2019 calling for William Lai and Tsai Ing-wen, contestants in the 2019 Democratic Progressive Party presidential primary, to join forces and form the party's ticket for the 2020 presidential election.[9] In the 2022 local elections, Liaw and Lee Ming-liang jointly organized a petition supporting Chen Shih-chung's bid for the Taipei mayoralty.[10]