Liaw Yun-fan (; born 1942) is a Taiwanese

hepatologist Hepatology is the branch of medicine that incorporates the study of liver, gallbladder, biliary tree, and pancreas as well as management of their disorders. Although traditionally considered a sub-specialty of gastroenterology, rapid expansion ...

. He attended Hsinchu Senior High School and earned his medical degree from the College of Medicine at

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...

in 1967. Liaw completed his residency in internal medicine at

, where he became chief resident. After Liaw's residency, he began teaching as a clinical assistant professor at the

National Defense Medical Center National Defense Medical Center (NDMC; ) is a Military of the Republic of China, ROC military affiliated medical school in Taipei, Taiwan. The NDMC is responsible for the training of military doctors, nurses and other medical personnel. Histor ...

. 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. Liaw was named a member of the Academia Sinica in 2000. That same year, he helped compile a

hepatitis B Hepatitis B is an infectious disease caused by the '' Hepatitis B virus'' (HBV) that affects the liver; it is a type of viral hepatitis. It can cause both acute and chronic infection. Many people have no symptoms during an initial infection. ...

prevention guide for use across Asia after attending the International Liver Congress in Fukuoka, Japan. 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. Liaw has been critical of

Pan-Blue Coalition The pan-Blue coalition, pan-Blue force or pan-Blue groups is a political coalition in the Republic of China (Taiwan) consisting of the Kuomintang (KMT), People First Party (PFP), New Party (CNP), Non-Partisan Solidarity Union (NPSU), and You ...

supporters and policies. In 2013, he signed a petition opposing the implementation of the

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. In 2017, he lent support to a petition advocating the protection of corals found near Guantang Industrial Park in Taoyuan. Liaw signed a petition in April 2019 calling for

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and

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, contestants in the

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, to join forces and form the party's ticket for the 2020 presidential election. In the 2022 local elections, Liaw and Lee Ming-liang jointly organized a petition supporting

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's bid for the Taipei mayoralty.

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