Education

• 2001.08

  Doctor of Medicine : Inha University

• 1998.08

  Master of Medicine : Inha University

• 1990.02

  Bachelor of Medicine : Yonsei University

Career

• 2021.03 ~ present

  Head of Spine Center, Inha University Hospital

• 2011.03 ~ present

  Professor in Neurosurgery, Inha University Hospital

• 2009.05 ~ 2009.06

  Visiting Professor, Stanford University

• 2008.08 ~ 2008.11

  Visiting Professor, UCSD

• 2007.12 ~ 2008.08

  Visiting Professor, UCLA

• 2006.03 ~ 2011.02

  Associate Professor in Neurosurgery, Inha University Hospital

• 2002.03 ~ 2006.02

  Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery, Inha University Hospital

• 1998.09 ~ 2002.02

  Assistant Professor, Konkuk University Medical Center

• 1997.01 ~ 1998.08

  Fellow, Inha University Hospital

• 1996.03 ~ 1996.12

  Fellow, Gangnam Severance Hospital

• 1992.03 ~ 1996.02

  Resident, Wonju Sevrance Christian Hospital

• 1990.03 ~ 1991.02

  Intern, Wonju Sevrance Christian Hospital

Professional Activities

• -

  Special Director of the Korean Church of Chuk-chu Neurological Science

• -

  Former General Secretary of the Neurosurgery Department, former Academic Director, former Financial Director, and former Foreign Cooperation Director

• -

  Chairman of the Korea Association for Chuk Chok Chui-Shik Studies

• -

  Vice-Chairman of the Research Society for Korean Chiliac Osteoporosis

• -

  Editorial Writer of the Journal of the Korea Neurological Association

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  Korea Neuroscience Association Medical Review Board

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  an advisory committee of the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service

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  Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration

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  Health Insurance Review and Evaluation Institute, Incheon Support Evaluation Board

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  Emergency member of the Korea Medical Dispute Coordination Agency

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  Neurospine Editor

Honors

Research & Publications

• 2017

  Transplantation of Human Bone Marrow-derived Clonal Mesenchymal Stem Cells Reduces fFibrotic sScar fFormation in a Rat Spinal Cord Injury Model

• 2017

  Role of Ethnicity in Alignment Compensation: Propensity Matched Analysis of Differential Compensatory Mechanism Recruitment Patterns for Sagittal Malalignment in 288 ASD Patients From Japan, Korea, and United States

• 2016

  Collaborative Efforts May Improve Chronic Non-Cancer Pain Management in Asia: Findings from a Ten-Country Regional Survey

• 2014

  Cervical Arthroplasty for Moderate to Severe Disc Degeneration: Clinical and Radiological Assessments after a Minimum Follow-Up of 18 Months -Pfirrmann Grade and Cervical Arthroplasty

• 2014

  Comparison of Outcomes after Atlantoaxial Fusion with Transarticular Screws and Screw-Rod Constructs

• 2014

  A comparison of the somatometric measurements of adolescent males with and without idiopathic scoliosis

• 2013

  The psychopathological influence of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in Korean male: an analysis of multiphasic personal inventory test results

• 2013

  Psychopathological influence of lumbar disc herniation in male adolescent

• 2013

  Mini-open and conventional-open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion augmented by pedicle screw fixation: comparisonal study of clinical, perioperative parametric, functional and radiological assessments

• 2013

  Past, present, and future of cervical arthroplasty