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Kim Kyung Soo

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Clinical expertise

  • Cardiovascular diseases: Coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, heart failure, and dyslipidemia
  • Cardiovascular treatment: Interventional cardiology and stem cell therapy

Education

  • M.D., Hanyang University College of Medicine
  • Ph.D. in Medicine, Hanyang University

Current appointments and professional activities

  • Council Member, Korean Society of Cardiology
  • Council Member, Korean Society of Interventional Cardiology
  • Vice Chair, Medical Committee, Korea Professional Football League

Previous appointments

  • Professor, Division of Cardiology, Hanyang University College of Medicine
  • Professor of Cardiovascular Intervention and Molecular Biology, Yanbian University College of Medicine, China
  • Chief, Division of Cardiology, Hanyang University Seoul Hospital
  • Director, Cardiology Center, Hanyang University Seoul Hospital
  • Council Member, Korean Association of Internal Medicine

Training and research

  • Visiting Professor, Cardiology, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
  • Visiting Associate, Cardiology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH, USA

Selected research and publications

  • Comparisons of Clinical and Procedural Outcomes Between Transradial and Transfemoral Approaches in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (from the Korean Transradial Intervention Prospective Registry)
  • The timing of intra-coronary infusion of G-CSF mobilized peripheral blood stem cells influences cardiac function and in-stent restenosis in patients with myocardial infarction
  • Transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells within a poly(lactide-co-1-caprolactone) scaffold improves cardiac function in a rat myocardial infarction model
  • In Vivo Differentiation of Human Amniotic Epithelial Cells Into Cardiomyocyte-Like Cells and Cell Transplantation Effect on Myocardial Infarction in Rats: Comparison With Cord Blood and Adipose Tissue-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells
  • A Requirement for the rac1 GTPase in the Signal Transduction Pathway Leading to Cardiac Myocyte Hypertrophy
  • and numerous other publications
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