Residence Korea Name Song Ho-young Doctoral advisor Hyung-Rho Kim | Institutions Asan Medical Center Nationality Korea | |
Fields Department of Radiology Alma mater Chonbuk National University (March 1973 – February 1975) | ||
Song Ho-young (born April 20, 1954) is a South Korean radiologist. He studied at the Chonbuk National University (March 1973 – February 1975) and now works at the Asan Medical Center. He is the founder of the Society of Gastrointestinal Intervention (SGI).
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Education
He received an undergraduate degree from the College of Liberal Art sand Science Chonbuk National University in 1973, followed by a 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, 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 M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the University of Pennsylvania, Oregon Health Sciences University, Louisiana State University Medical School, University of Lund, Sweden, Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, Caceres, Spain, and Osaka City University.
From 1996 to 2000 he was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Korean Interventional Radiological Society.