The Catholic University of Korea seoul

Biography

Dr. Yoon earned his MD at the Catholic University of Korea in 1985. He trained in Hepatology & Gastroenterology at Seoul St.Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea from 1992 to 1994. He then subsequently trained as research fellow in Molecular Hepatology Laboratory, MGH, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA from 1996 to 1998. He has been principal investigator in several international multicenter researches on antiviral therapy against hepatitis virus B & C, and target therapy for HCC. He holds scientific membership in numerous professional associations in Korea and is a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), EASL and APASL. He served as a secretary general of Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL) from 2013 to 2015. Also, He served as a secretary general of APASL STC 2016 in Busan. Now He is a vice president of Korean Association of Internal Medicine. He works as a director of Liver Cancer Center in Seoul St,Mary’s Hospital and Catholic University Liver Research Center.

Research Interests

He has published more than 300 authored and co-authored original articles on the viral hepatitis B and C, NASH, and HCC. He had also written chapter on molecular diagnostics of HCC in the textbook “Principles of Molecular diagnostics and personalized cancer medicine”.