Professor Hsiao-Yean Chiu is the Director of the School of Nursing, College of Nursing, Taipei Medical University. Her research focuses on evidence-based symptom management and translation research, with particular emphasis on sleep disturbance and delirium. She leads systematic reviews and network meta-analyses to synthesize global evidence and translate findings into practical nursing strategies, care bundles, and decision-support tools, and she has extensive experience leading evidence-based, technology-driven randomized trials and implementation studies to improve patient outcomes. She has been listed among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists for five consecutive years and has received multiple multi-year research grants from the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) of Taiwan. 

STEP Lab (Symptom Translation and Evidence-Based Practice Lab) focuses on innovative, evidence-driven symptom management, with an emphasis on sleep disturbance and delirium across diverse clinical settings. Led by Professor Hsiao-Yean Chiu at Taipei Medical University, the lab specializes in conducting systematic reviews and network meta-analyses and translating findings into practical nursing strategies, including care bundles, clinical algorithms, and decision-support tools. STEP Lab is committed to methodological rigor, clinical relevance, and innovation to improve patient outcomes and advance evidence-based practice globally.

Through this three-month international internship, students will join a supportive, interdisciplinary research team and gain hands-on experience in evidence synthesis (from protocol to analysis and reporting), meta-analysis translation, and the development of clinically meaningful symptom management solutions, producing tangible outputs such as a poster, report, or manuscript draft.