The Foundation of Medical Professionals Alliance in Taiwan (FMPAT; ) is a

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based in Taiwan.

History

Chen-Yuan Lee Chen-Yuan Lee (; December 4, 1915 – November 1, 2001), was a Taiwanese people, Taiwanese pharmacologist and political activist. He is famous for his research on snake venom. He was a recipient of the prestigious Redi Award from the Internation ...

, a

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

ese pharmacologist, professor emeritus of the College of Medicine of the National Taiwan University, former fellow of

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, and an important political figure during the period of democratization of Taiwan founded the Medical Professionals Alliance in Taiwan on 1 March 1992. On 19 July 1992, the foundation gained its formal status as Foundation of Medical Professionals Alliance in Taiwan (FMPAT). The first activity of the foundation was to push the

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and the president Lee Teng-hui(李登輝) to abolish the Sedition Punishment Act (懲治叛亂條例) and Article 100 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of China(中華民國刑法第100條). Since 1992, FMPAT has developed in Taiwan's medical profession a sense of social responsibility, medical training, biotech development and providing health-policy advice to the

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. Today, it is one of the many groups trying to form relationships with

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to lobby for Taiwan's participation in the World Health Organization.

Organization

Currently, the President of the FMPAT is Dr. Wu Shuh-min (吳樹民). The former legislator Lin Shih-chia is the Chief Executive Officer of the foundation. The board of directors and the board of supervisors elect standing directors and supervisors. The president, elected by standing directors, represents the foundation externally and manages its operations internally.

Goals

By upholding humanitarianism, the foundation aims to unite medical professionals who are in passion of refining medical ethics and cultures in Taiwan, devote to issues and fields of human rights, policies of education, and environmental protection, enhance medicine professionalism, and upgrade clinical level.

Membership of International Organizations

The foundation has been invited as a part of Global Health Diplomacy Network since 2010, devoted to the concept of Global Health Diplomacy, and has promoted dialogues between the fields of diplomacy and health profession. During the campaign for Taiwan to rejionrejoin World Health Organization (WHO) from 1997 to 2008, it has lobbied for support of more than 20 countries. And since 2000, the foundation has also strived for opportunities for hosting meetings on APEC in Taiwan, such as Conferences of APEC Network on Pharmaceutical Regulatory Science held in 2000, 2001, and 2011

References

{{reflist 1992 establishments in Taiwan Health care-related professional associations Medical and health organizations based in Taiwan Organizations established in 1992

History

Organization

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Membership of International Organizations

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