Jeong Wook Seo MD, PhD

Jeong-Wook Seo is a Professor of Pathology at the Seoul National University College of Medicine and Hospital, Seoul Korea. He is the president of the Cardiac Pathology Study Group of the Korean Society of Cardiology. He was the director-general of the Korean Society of Pathology from 2009-2010. His research interests in pathology are congenital and adult heart diseases, arrhythmia, congenital anomaly, and forensic pathology.

His additional interests are in the information sciences and digital innovation of hospital services. He is the executive vice-president of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors. He was the editor-in-chief of Basic and Applied Pathology from 2008-2012 and the Korean Journal of Pathology from 2007-2008. He served as the chief of the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) project of the hospital and launched a successful new EMR system in 2004.