Biography:
He was born in Seoul in 1968. After graduating from Chung-Ang University Medical School, he completed the resident course, master's, and doctoral degrees in the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Seoul ASAN medical center. He worked as a clinical fellow, assistant professor, and associate professor and have been a professor since 2013 at Seoul ASAN Medical center. During his period as an assistant professor, he conducted animal experiments on neuropathic pain at Children's Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women's Hospital which is a related hospital to Harvard Medical School for one year in the USA. He currently serve as a director of executive management at the Korean Pain Society, the Korean Spinal Pain Society, and the Korean neuromodulation Society. He have been working as a professor at Asan Hospital Pain Clinic in Seoul for 18 years, mainly treating patients with spinal pain and neuropathic pain, and have published many research papers. As his representative achievement, he developed the world's first interventional procedure called ‘Spinal epidural balloon decompression and adhesiolysis’ and published books about it in Korean and English. He also systematized the procedure so-called ‘genicular nerve radiofrequency ablation therapy' for patients with chronic knee pain and published it for the first time in a high-profile journal called Pain, and this procedure is currently being performed by many doctors around the world.
Title : Novel procedure: Spinal epidural balloon decompression and adhesiolysis