Song Ho-young (born April 20, 1954) is a South Korean

radiologist Radiology ( ) is the medical specialty that uses medical imaging to diagnose diseases and guide treatment within the bodies of humans and other animals. It began with radiography (which is why its name has a root referring to radiation), but tod ...

. He studied at the Chonbuk National University (March 1973 – February 1975) and now works at the

Asan Medical Center Asan Medical Center (AMC) () is a reference hospital and the teaching hospital of the University of Ulsan College of Medicine, located in Seoul, South Korea. With 2,432 beds for patients and a total floor area of approximately 280,000 square meter ...

. He is the founder of the Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention (SGI).

Education

He received an undergraduate degree from the College of Liberal Art sand Science Chonbuk National University in 1973, followed by an MD from the College of Medicine - Chonbuk National University in 1975. He then did an internship and a radiology residency at the Chonbuk National University Hospital. In 1982 he received an M.S.from the Graduate School of Chonbuk National University; in 1987, he received a Ph.D. from that university.

Academic and professional career

From 1986 to 1993 Song was on the faculty ofc Chonbuk National University Medical School, rising in rank from Instructor to Associate Professor. From 1993 to the present he has been a member of the faculty of Asan Medical Center

University of Ulsan College of Medicine The University of Ulsan College of Medicine (UUCM) () is the medical school of University of Ulsan, and is located in Songpa-gu, Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1988, the school moved its campus to Seoul in 2004. Ministry of Education of South K ...

, rising in rank from Associate Professor to Professor; he has served as the Chairman, Department of Radiology. He has been a visiting professor at the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the University of Pennsylvania,

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, Louisiana State University Medical School,

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, Sweden, Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, Caceres, Spain, and

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. From 1996 to 2000 he was Editor-in-Chief of the ''Journal of the Korean Interventional Radiological Society''.

Society memberships and offices

*Korean Radiological Society (1983–present) *Korean Society of Medical Ultrasound (1983–present) Korean Society of Cardiovascular Interventional Radiology (1994–present) *Korean Bronchoesophagological Society (2002–present) *Korean Society of Medical Biochemistry and Melecular Biology (1998–present) *Radiological Society of NorthAmerica (1989–present) *Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE) (1999–present) *Korean Institute of Medicine (May 2004 – present) *

Society of Interventional Radiology A society () is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. Soc ...

, US (2006–present) *Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention, (2007–present); President, 2010-2011

Notable awards

*Outstanding Korean in 1996, President

Kim Young-sam Kim Young-sam (, ; 20 December 1927 – 22 November 2015), often referred to by his initials YS, was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the seventh president of South Korea from 1993 to 1998. From 1961, Kim spent almost 30 ye ...

appointments (December 13, 1996) *

Top Scientist and Technologist Award of Korea Top Scientist and Technologist Award of Korea () is one of two annual awards given in South Korea by the with the other being a government award for contribution to science and technology promotion. The Top Scientist and Technologist Award of Ko ...

, President

Lee Myung-bak Lee Myung-bak (; born 19 December 1941), often referred to by his initials MB, is a South Korean businessman and politician who served as the tenth president of South Korea from 2008 to 2013. Before his presidency, he was the CEO of Hyundai Engi ...

and Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies () (April 21, 2008) *Honorary Membership of the European Society of Radiology (ESR) (March 6, 2009) *Honorary Membership of the

Radiological Society of North America The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) is a non-profit organization and an international society of radiologists, medical physicists and other medical imaging professionals representing 31 radiologic subspecialties from 145 countries a ...

(RSNA), (November 30, 2009)Radiological Society of North America. Honorary Members
Accessed Dec 30, 2015.

References

#^ Radiology 268(1):281-7 (2013) #^ Ann Thorac Surg 94(6):1862-8 (2012) #^ Qual Life Res 21(8):1451-7 (2012) #^ Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 69(3):655-63 (2012) #^ Radiology. 261(3):969-75 (2011)

External links

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