Editorial Board Team
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Keun-Young Yoo, MD, Ph.D. President, APOCP President, Armed Forces Capital Hospital Professor, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Specialty: Prof. of Cancer Epidemiology Email: bkkyyoo@gmail.com |
| Keun-Young Yoo studied medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine (1978). He received his MPH at SNU School of Public Health in 1981, and was awarded a PhD at SNU in 1985. Since 1986, he has been committed to cancer epidemiology research and has served as a faculty member in the Department of Preventive Medicine at SNU. He was a visiting researcher at the DEPH at Yale University in 1989-1990, and a visiting scientist at Aichi Cancer Center, Nagoya in 1990-1991 by the WHO. His major interest is in female cancer epidemiology, risk factor analysis, genetic susceptibility and preventive measures. In 1992, he conducted a multi-center collaborative study to establish a community-based the prospective cohort (KMCC), that is the first genomic cohort in Korea and one of the distinguished cohorts with biologic specimen bank in the world. He has continued to contribute to the newly constructed Korean genome cohort studies as the PI. He has served as the president of the Korean Genome Epidemiology Society since 2005. He led the Asian Cohort Consortium to establish a cohort of at least one million healthy people through partnership with other cohorts since 2005. As the Secretary General of the Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention since 2006, he is devoted to enhance cancer control strategies in developing countries through transfer knowledge, capacity building, and exchanging cancer control activities in the region. He was the President of the National Cancer Center of Korea from 2006-2008, and led the National Cancer Control Program in Korea. |
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