Park In-sook, professor emeritus of Ulsan University Medical School at the 16th Korean-German Women's Medical Center...Awards ceremony on the 22nd

Mar 20, 2025

◇Park In-sook, professor emeritus at Ulsan University School of Medicine. Photo courtesy of = Handok

The 16th 'Korean German Women's Medical Academy Awards' presented to female doctors who have made groundbreaking contributions to the development of the Korean medical community and raised the honor and status of medical professionals will be held at the President Hotel in Seoul on the 22nd.

The Korean-German Women's Medical Academy Award is an award established by the Korean-German Women's Association, and this year's winner Park In-sook, an honorary professor at Ulsan University's Medical School, will be awarded 20 million won in prize money and a research tower.

Professor Park In-sook pioneered the Department of Pediatric Cardiology from the opening of Ulsan Medical University's Seoul Asan Hospital, contributing not only to patient treatment but also to the development of medicine with active academic activities and outstanding research results. In addition, he was recognized for his contribution to research in the field and development of patient support policies by serving as the head of the Center for Genetic Research on congenital malformations and genetic diseases of the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the head of the Center for Rare and Intractable Diseases of the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

Professor Park, who graduated from Seoul National University School of Medicine in 1973, served as a pediatrician, full-time pediatric cardiologist, and clinical assistant professor of pediatric cardiology at Baylor Medical School training hospitals in the United States. Since 1989, he has served as a professor of pediatric cardiology at Ulsan Medical University's Asan Medical Center, contributing to the development of congenital heart disease and pediatric heart in Korea. It also contributed greatly to education in the field of congenital heart disease by publishing textbooks for experts and textbooks that made it easy for anyone to understand congenital heart disease. In 2019, the English version of the textbook was also published, raising Korea's status in the field of congenital heart disease. In addition, while serving as a member of the Songpa-gu District National Assembly for eight years from 2012, he established various medical policies and proposed related legislation.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.