Enhancing Drug Delivery and Immunity with Ultrasound: From Bench to Bedside
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NameJae Young Lee, MD, PhD
AffiliationChief Innovation & Quality Officer (CIO), Seoul National University Hospital Professor, Department of Radiology Seoul National University College of Medicine
Challenges and Opportunities: Medical Ultrasound Engineering and Technology for Next-generation Imaging and Stimulation Applications
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NameQifa Zhou, PhD
AffiliationZohrab A. Kaprielian Fellow in Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Ophthalmology, University of Southern California
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Jae Young Lee, MD, PhD
Jae Young Lee MD, PhD, is currently a Professor at the Department of Radiology, Seoul National University (SNU) College of Medicine and Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH). He served as the vice-dean of Research Affairs in SNU College of Medicine for the past four years. He also served as the president of Medical Research Center in SNU. He currently holds the position of Chief Innovation and Quality Officer in SNUH.
Prof. Lee received his medical degree from SNU in 1992. Following this, he completed a one-year internship and a four-year radiology residency program at SNUH from 1992 to 1997. After fulfilling a three-year obligatory military service as a medical officer, he pursued a clinical fellowship in the abdominal section of the Department of Radiology at SNUH in 2001. He has been serving as a professor since 2003 at SNUH and became a tenured professor in SNU in 2017. He obtained his PhD in medical science in 2009 from SNU.
Prof. Lee has published more than 200 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He has also delivered more than 100 invited lectures in his area of expertise to international audiences.
Prof. Lee now serves as a member of the Korean Society of Ultrasound in Medicine (KSUM), as the next chair of the Board of Directors. He is also a President of the Korean Society of Therapeutic Ultrasound (KSTU) and treasurer of the Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (AFSUMB).
Prof. Lee's research focuses on research of diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound. Recent publication is "Combination of chemotherapy and focused ultrasound for the treatment of unresectable pancreatic cancer: a proof-of-concept study" (European Radiology, 2023 Apr. 33(4), 2620-2628).
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Qifa Zhou, PhD
Qifa Zhou received his Ph. D. degree from the Department of Electronic Materials and Engineering of Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 1993. He is currently Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology in the USC Keck School of Medicine as well as the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California.
He is also one of the leading principle investigators at the NIH Resource Center on Medical Transducer Technology. Dr. Zhou has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles in journals including Nature Medicine, Scientific Reports and Progress in Materials Science, and is a fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
He is a member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, and is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. He was the co-author of a paper that received the best student paper competition award at the 2010 IEEE IUS conference and the best poster paper in photoacoustics plus ultrasound at the 2015 SPIE Photonics West conference.
