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Lin Hwei Chen, M.D.

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Harvard University, CambridgeAB1982Biology
Jefferson Medical College, PhiladelphiaMD1986Medicine
New England Deaconess Hospital, Boston1989Internal Medicine
Yale New Haven Hospital, New HavenInfectious Diseases
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2007
Top US Travel Health Specialists
2009 - 2024
America's Top Doctors: Infectious Diseases
2013
Certificate of Excellence in Reviewing
2016 - 2018
Top Reviewer
2017 - 2024
Exceptional Women in Medicine
2016 - 2024
America's Most Honored Professionals Top 1%
2018 - 2024
Boston Magazine's Top Doctors
2019 - 2019
Distinguished Physician Award
2021 - 2021
ISTM Journal of Travel Medicine Award
2024
Leo A. Blacklow Teaching Award

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Lin H. Chen, MD, FACP, FASTMH, FISTM, served as President of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) from 2019 to 2021 and as a member of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). She directs the Mount Auburn Hospital Travel Medicine Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She received an AB (Cum Laude) in Biology from Harvard University and an MD from Jefferson Medical College (Sidney Kimmel Medical College) of Thomas Jefferson University. She trained in Internal Medicine in Boston at the New England Deaconess Hospital followed by an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

Dr. Chen is a physician with clinical research emphasis on diseases associated with travel, emerging infections, vector-borne diseases, vaccines, and immigrant health. Her recent research has focused on cross-border healthcare and the globalization of healthcare, and the associated transfer of infectious disease agents. These efforts aim to improve immunization in relevant populations and decrease morbidity and mortality in international travelers, migrants, and occupational travelers and expatriates. She serves as the site director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network and Global Travel Epidemiology Network and the Global Travel Epidemiology Network; both are research and surveillance partners of the CDC (https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/partnership-page).

She has directed the ISTM Course on Travel Medicine, served on the Research Committee and the Board of Directors as a Counsellor. She served on the ASTMH Certificate Examination Committee and ASTMH Education Task Force. Her editorial roles include the Journal of Travel Medicine, Current Infectious Disease Reports, Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Infectious Diseases: A Geographical Guide, and CDC Health Information for International Travel 2026. She served on past scientific program committees of International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases and ISTM Conferences.
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  1. U50CK000189 (Michael Libman) Sep 1, 2020
    CDC Collaborative Agreement
    GeoSentinel Surveillance and Research Network
    Role Description: Surveillance of travel-associated illnesses; analyzing data generated through the network of 70+ collaborating travel and tropical medicine clinics located on 6 continents.
    Role: Site Director
  2. Protocol #STA00011 (Sanofi Pasteur) Jul 1, 2017 - Jun 30, 2021
    Sanofi Pasteur
    Sanofi Pasteur Investigational New Drug Expanded Access Program
    Role Description: Stamaril Yellow Fever Vaccination during YF-VAX Stock-out
    Role: Site PI
  3. MSEC Seed Grant (Lin Chen) Oct 1, 2015 - Dec 31, 2016
    Mount Auburn Hospital Medical Staff Executive Committee
    Analysis of a travel screening question for patients presenting to MAH
    Role Description: Systematic hospital-based travel screening to assess exposure to Zika virus.
    Role: PI
  4. U19CI000514 and U01CK000175 (Ed Ryan and Regina LaRocque) Apr 1, 2015
    US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Global Travel Epidemiology Network
    Role Description: Consortium of US travel clinics that collaborate on research projects on travelers’ health.
    Role: Site PI
  5. Xcellerex, Inc. (Thomas Monath) Jul 1, 2009 - Jun 30, 2010
    Xcellerex, Inc.
    Serological Analysis of Healthy Adults 18-49 Years of Age Treated with Yellow Fever Vaccine (YF-VAX®)
    Role Description: We enrolled the Intention to Treat population of a phase 1 vaccine trial, assessing serologic response in adults receiving the currently licensed yellow fever vaccine.
    Role: Site PI

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