Professor Park Hyung-yeol of Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital Wins Young Researcher Award of the Korean Orthopedic Society
Oct 27, 2025
Professor Park Hyung-yeol of Orthopedic Surgery at Eunpyeong St. Mary's Hospital (Hospital Director Bae Si-hyun) won the 'APOA Young Researcher Award' at the 69th Korean Orthopedic Society Conference" held at COEX Magok in Seoul on the 17th.
The 'APOA Young Researcher Award' is an award given by the Korean Orthopedic Society to one member under the age of 40 who has achieved outstanding research achievements, and is selected by comprehensively evaluating the number of SCI-class papers and citation index.
Professor Park Hyung-yeol stands out in the field of spinal disease research by publishing a total of 80 papers in academic journals, including 30 papers by the author. In particular, in 2021, he published a paper on Morel-Lavallee lesions in The New England Journal of Medicine 'The New England Journal of Medicine, the first globally prestigious academic journal in Korea, and also reported to NEJM the treatment guidelines for diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostasis that causes dysphagia in 2022, drawing attention from academia.
In addition, Professor Park carried out the SGER project of the Korea Research Foundation in 2017 and the Creative Challenge Research Project of the Korea Research Foundation in 2021. In 2025, he was selected as the lead researcher of the Korea Health Industry Promotion Agency's clinical evaluation support project for domestic medical device users and the Korea Research Foundation's mid-sized research (creative research type) to lead various research projects related to spinal diseases.
Professor Park Hyung-yeol said, `I am very honored to receive this award"In the future, we will present a new treatment paradigm to patients through research on diagnosis and treatment of spinal diseases based on artificial intelligence, as well as research on minimally invasive surgical techniques, vertebral fractures and osteoporosis."
The 'APOA Young Researcher Award' is an award given by the Korean Orthopedic Society to one member under the age of 40 who has achieved outstanding research achievements, and is selected by comprehensively evaluating the number of SCI-class papers and citation index.
Professor Park Hyung-yeol stands out in the field of spinal disease research by publishing a total of 80 papers in academic journals, including 30 papers by the author. In particular, in 2021, he published a paper on Morel-Lavallee lesions in The New England Journal of Medicine 'The New England Journal of Medicine, the first globally prestigious academic journal in Korea, and also reported to NEJM the treatment guidelines for diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostasis that causes dysphagia in 2022, drawing attention from academia.
In addition, Professor Park carried out the SGER project of the Korea Research Foundation in 2017 and the Creative Challenge Research Project of the Korea Research Foundation in 2021. In 2025, he was selected as the lead researcher of the Korea Health Industry Promotion Agency's clinical evaluation support project for domestic medical device users and the Korea Research Foundation's mid-sized research (creative research type) to lead various research projects related to spinal diseases.
Professor Park Hyung-yeol said, `I am very honored to receive this award"In the future, we will present a new treatment paradigm to patients through research on diagnosis and treatment of spinal diseases based on artificial intelligence, as well as research on minimally invasive surgical techniques, vertebral fractures and osteoporosis."
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