Professor Kim Sang-il of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital Elected President of the Korean Society for Healthcare-Associated Infection Control

Professor Kim Sang-il of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Catholic University Seoul St. Mary's Hospital has been elected as the 15th president of the Korean Society for Healthcare-associated Infection Control and Prevention (KOSHIC). His term is two years, until May 2025.

Professor Kim Sang-il, Department of Infectious Diseases, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital.

The Korean Society for Healthcare-associated Infection Control and Prevention (KOSHIC) was founded in 1995 as the Korean Society for Hospital Infection Control and was renamed to its current name in 2015. The society leads efforts to create an efficient and safe medical environment based on scientific evidence through academic and research activities in infection control across all areas of healthcare-associated infections, not just hospital infection control. It also collaborates with national agencies to establish infection control policies for medical institutions and organizes training programs to cultivate infection control experts. Currently, it has over 2,700 members.

Professor Kim said, "I would like to thank everyone who has worked hard on infection control through our collective efforts during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare-associated infection control is a patient safety issue that applies to all medical practices performed in healthcare institutions, so participation and activities from not only clinical departments but all experts in medical institutions are necessary. We will continue academic activities to support this."

Professor Kim is a specialist in infectious diseases who graduated from the Catholic University College of Medicine in 1991 and earned his master's and doctoral degrees from the same graduate school. From 2007 to 2017, he served as the head of the Infection Control Office at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital. He has held various leadership roles including Chair of the Transplant Infection Control Committee of the Korean Society for Transplantation, President of the Korean Society for Medical Mycology, President of the Korean Society for AIDS, Chair of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Committee of the Korean Society of Infectious Diseases, member of the Infectious Disease Control Committee of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, member of the Infectious Disease Control Committee of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, and Chair of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Expert Committee.

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