Professor Shin Myung-geun of Chosun Jeonnam National University Hospital Elected as President of the Korean Society of Laboratory Medicine

Professor Shin Myung-geun of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital has been elected as the 14th President of the Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine. His term will be three years starting from 2025.

According to Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital on the 30th, four candidates ran in the election for the President of the Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine, held from the 18th to the 20th at the Suwon Convention Center during the international laboratory medicine conference ‘LMCE 2023 & KSLM 64th Annual Meeting’.

Professor Shin Myung-geun’s key election pledges included ▲strengthening the value of laboratory medicine as a biofactor in the medical field ▲establishing a status as an expert in medical systems and platforms ▲realizing the Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine as a collective intelligence.

Along with this, he announced 11 specific policies and directions for society management and pledged to enhance the value of laboratory medicine as a core of K-Medicine.

Shin Myung-geun, the 14th President of the Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine, previously served as the Director of Education and Research and the Director of Medical Affairs at Hwasun Chonnam National University Hospital, and was the 9th Hospital Director. He is currently the head professor of the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Chonnam National University Medical School.

He has also made significant contributions to public health improvement and the development of the precision medical industry, including attracting the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s 15 billion KRW ‘Advanced Precision Medicine Industrialization Platform Construction Project.’

Within the Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine, he has served as Director of Examination, Director of Legislation, and Chair of the Diagnostic Hematology Subcommittee, and currently serves as an auditor. He actively participates in external activities promoting the advancement of laboratory medicine, receiving awards such as the Korean Society of Hematology Excellent Researcher Award, the Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine Academic Award, selection as an outstanding achievement and researcher in the Cancer Control Promotion Research and Development Project, and the Korea Federation of Science and Technology Societies Excellent Science and Technology Paper Award.

Meanwhile, the Korean Society for Laboratory Medicine, a member society of the Korean Academy of Medical Sciences (periodical society), holds the international conference LMCE (Laboratory Medicine Congress & Exhibition) in addition to the annual spring and fall academic conferences held since 2016.

The ‘LMCE 2023 & KSLM 64th Annual Meeting,’ held for three days from October 18 at the Suwon Convention Center this year, attracted 2,432 participants from 29 countries worldwide, with over 400 abstracts submitted from 25 countries.

In particular, with 182 booths exhibited by 88 companies, the conference was organized as a global business event to discuss new value creation and role visions in the field of laboratory medicine through Big Data and AI technologies in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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