PAIR Distinguished Lecture Series: Healthcare Innovation After the Pandemic: Engineering-based Medical Education and Efforts for Commercialization

Biography

Prof. Chulhong KIM studied for his Ph.D. degree at Washington University in St. Louis. He currently holds Namgo Chair Professorship, Young Distinguished Professorship, and Mueunjae Chair Professorship of Convergence IT Engineering (Department Chair) and Medical Science and Engineering (Program Chair) at POSTECH. He is the CEO of Opticho, a spinoff company to commercialise clinical photoacoustic imaging systems. He has published 221 peer-reviewed journal articles (Nature sisters, PNAS, etc). His Google Scholar h-index and citations have reached 68 and over 16,500, respectively. He is elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea and Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He is a Fellow of the SPIE and OPTICA.

Abstract

Overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic, public interests for healthcare innovations significantly increase. In order to prepare the next pandemic, POSTECH is initiating a new engineering-based medical school. This new program aims to solve practical medical problems via innovative technology and put significant efforts for commercialisation. As a Program Chair for the new Medical Science and Engineering Program, I will share my experience and future plans. Further, we spin-off a start-up company, “Opticho”, from the research outcomes in my lab. I will share my experience how translate the lab toys to commercial products: not only excitement but also difficulty.