Hyunchul Rhim MD, MS, PhD

Hyunchul Rhim studied Medicine at Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea in 1979 and graduated in 1985. From 1993, he served as an instructor up to an associate professor at Hanyang University Hospital.

For two years from 1997, he studied abroad as a research fellow and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Radiology, the University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. He introduced RF ablation in Korea when he came back in 1999. In 2005, he moved to Samsung Medical Center and is currently a Professor in the abdominal imaging section of radiology. He has published 185 International scientific papers in SCI journals. Among them, more than 130 papers are articles regarding RF ablation of hepatic tumors. Until 2013, he served as the president of the Korean Society of image-guided Tumor Ablation (KSITA) for 4 years. His research interest is "Image-guided Tumor Ablation for Hepatic Tumors". He was one of the founding members of the Asian Conference on Tumor Ablation (ACTA) and the Hosting Chair of the 3rd ACTA which was held in 2016 Oct. 28-29, Seoul, Korea. Since 2012, he has been in charge of the Samsung Medical Center Image-guided Tumor Ablation Training (SITAT) program to share their experience with foreign young doctors.