Park Seung-jung

Park Seung-jung
Born	Seoul, South Korea
Nationality	South Korean
Alma mater	Yonsei University
Awards	2005 The Ethica Award Presented by EuroPCR, 2008 TCT Award (Career Achievement Award), 2011 Top Scientist and Technologist Award of Korea, 2011 Asan Award in Medicine, 2020 Ho-Am Prize in Medicine
Scientific career
Fields	Cardiology
Institutions	University of Ulsan Asan Medical Center

Park Seung-jung
Hangul	박승정
Revised Romanization	Bak Seungjeong
McCune–Reischauer	Pak Sŭngjŏng

Park Seung-jung is a South Korean cardiologist. Currently he is chairman of the Heart Institute at Asan Medical Center in Seoul and professor of medicine at University of Ulsan.

Career

Park is currently serving as a Chairman of Board of Trustees at CardioVascular Research Foundation, and as a course director, he has been organizing the annual conference, CardioVascular Summit-TCT Asia Pacific, since 1996.

• 1996 - Advisory Board Asian-Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology
• 1996 - Associate Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Center, Asan Medical Center University of Ulsan, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
• 1998 - Editorial Board Interventional Cardiology Bulletin
• 2000 - Professor of Medicine Chief, Division of Interventional Cardiology Cardiovascular Center, Asan Medical Center University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
• 2002 - Chairman Cardio Vascular Research Foundation
• 2004 - Editorial Board Current Cardiology Reviews
• 2004 - Editorial Advisory Future Cardiology
• 2004.3 - 2008.2 Chairman The Korean Society of Interventional Cardiology
• 2004.12 - Director Clinical Research Center for Ischemic Heart Disease
• 2006 - 2008 President Asian Pacific Society of Interventional Cardiology
• 2006.09 - Director Asan Heart Institute
• 2006 - 2010 Editorial Board Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions
• 2008.02 - Associate Editor for the Pacific Rim Euro Intervention
• 2008.02 - Editorial Board Journal of American College of Cardiology: Cardiovasular Interventions
• 2008.07 - 2010 International Advisory Board Circulation Journal-The Japanese Circulation Society
• 2008 - 2010 Editorial Board The American Journal of Cardiology
• 2009 - 2011 International Associate Editor European Heart Journal
• 2009 - 2011 Associate Editor Interventional Cardiology
• 2009 - 2010 Director, International Affairs Committee The Korean Society of Cardiology
• 2009.7 - International Associate Editor Circulation Journal - The Japanese Circulation Society
• 2009.11.23 - Chairman Heart Institute, Asan Medical Center

Grants and awards

• 1991 - 1993 NSF grant DMS-9106444
• 1997 - 2001 NSF grant DMS-9701489 :‘Effective Diophantine Geometry over FunctionFields’.
• 1998 - 2002 NSF Group Infrastructure Grant : ‘Southwestern Center for Arithmetic Geometry’, Co-PI with six other researchers from the University of Arizona, UTexas Austin, USC, and the University of New Mexico.
• 2003 - 2006 NSF Infrastructure grant : ‘Southwestern Center for Arithmetic Geometry’, Co-PI with nine other researchers from the University of Arizona, UTexas Austin, USC, UC Berkeley, and the University of New Mexico.
• 2005 - 2008 NSF grant DMS-0500504 : ‘Motivic fundamental groups, multiple polylogarithms, and Diophantine geometry’.
• 2006 - 2008 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Core-to-Core program ‘New Developments of Arithmetic Geometry, Motive, Galois Theory, and Their Practical Applications,’ Foreign member
• 2008 EPSRC grant, 46437, for workshop ‘Non-commutative constructions in arithmetic and geometry’
• 2009 EPSRC grant, EP/G024979/1, 3-year project on ‘Non-commutative fundamental groups in Diophantine geometry’, March

Awards

• 2020: Ho-Am Prize in Medicine
• 2011: Asan Award in Medicine
• 2011: Top Scientist and Technologist Award of Korea, Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (ko)^[1]
• 2008: TCT Award (Career Achievement Award)
• 2005: The Ethica Award, EuroPCR

References

External links

• Youtube.com
• European Heart Journal - My Cardio Interview: Seung Jung-Park & Thomas Luscher (04-27-2011)
• ACC 2011: Seung-Jung Park, MD for PRECOMBAT (04-06-2011) AHA Science News Video Interview from ACC 2011 with Mariell Jessup, MD, FAHA and Seung-Jung Park, MD on behalf of the PRECOMBAT investigators
• Cardio Tube Interview with Seung-Jung Park, MD from TCTAP 2011 conference in Seoul, Korea (08-11-2011)
• AMC Int'l News - The 4th Asan Medical Award (06-02-2011)
• AMC News (04-28-2011): Dr. Seung-Jung Park publishes fourth paper in NEJM
• CardioVascular Research Foundation Website
• Summitmd.com
• CardioVascular Summit-TCTAP
• Imaging and Physiology Summit
• TAVI Summit