Professor Cheng-Hsun Chiu is currently a Professor and head of the Department of Pediatrics, Chang Gung Children’s Hospital and Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan. Professor Chiu received his Doctor of Medicine from Chung Shan Medical and Dental College and Doctor of Philosophy from Chang Gung University College of Medicine. He obtained his postdoctoral fellowship from University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is on the Editorial Board for several journals including Chang Gung Medical Journal, Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, Annals of Tropical Paediatrics and is Executive Editor of Pediatrics and Neonatology (formerly Acta Paediatrica Taiwanica ). He is also a reviewer for many journals, including Clinical Infectious Diseases, Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, and Vaccine.. He is a member of a number of professional organizations including the American Society for Microbiology, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, USA, Infectious Disease Society of Taiwan, and Taiwan Pediatric Association. Prof. Chiu’s research interests include pediatric infectious diseases and vaccines, bacterial genetics and genomics, bacterial pathogenesis, and antimicrobial resistance. He has authored more than 270 research papers in national and international peer-reviewed journals.