PROFESSOR
Associate Professor
Hyekyung Woo
E-mail: hkwoo@kongju.ac.kr
Office: +82-41-850-0328
Hyekyung Woo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Administration at Kongju National University (KNU). She has received her Ph.D. in Public Health Sciences and completed her one-year postdoctoral training from the Graduate School of Public Health at Seoul National University (SNU). Before joining KNU in 2019, she was an Assistant Research Professor at SNU BrainKorea2lPLUS center. Her research focuses on health demography and healthcare informatics. Dr. Woo has published in the areas of informatics and been expanding her work to mHealth, web-based disease surveillance, artificial intelligence (AI) and related policies.
EDUCATION
- 2015.08.
- PhD, Public Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- 2007.02.
- MPH, Healthcare Management and policy, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
- 2003.02.
- BS, Department of Healthcare management, Dongduk Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
CURRENT POSITION
- 2023.03.~ cont.
- Associate Professor, Department of Health Administration @ KNU
- 2022.03.~ cont.
- Director, Institute of Health and Environment @ KNU
- 2022.03.~cont.
- Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Health @ SNU(SNU Population Policy Research Center)
- 2022.04.~ cont.
- Adjunct Professor, Gyeonggi-do Human Resources Development Institute
- 2019.03.~ 2023.02.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Health Administration @ KNU
PREVIOUS
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
- 2017.03.~ 2019.02.
- Research Assistant Professor, BK21PLUS center, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University
- 2016.06.~ 2017.02.
- Postdoctoral Fellow, BK21PLUS Center, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University
- 2015.09.~ 2019.02.
- Lecturer, Seoul National Univ., Dongduk Women’s Univ., etc
- 2014.03.~ 2016.05.
- Researcher, Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University
- 2011.09.~ 2016.05
. - Healthcare Information manager&Researcher, National Cancer Center Hospital & National Cancer Control Institute
AREAS OF INTEREST
- Reserch
- Healthcare Informatics; Population Studies; mHealth; Artificial Intelligence; Healthcare Technology Policy
- Teaching
- Public Health; Health Demography; Healthcare Information Technology;Healthcare Information Management; Health Communication
PUBLICATIONS
(RECENT PAPER; 2022~)
- 2023
- Effective Data Quality Management for Electronic Medical Record Data using SMART DATA. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 180(2023), 105262. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2023.105262 (corresponding author)
- 2023
- Brain-based medical education model for expert’s clinical decision making. Korean J Med Educ. Sep; 35(3): 275-283. (corresponding author)
- 2023
- 보건의료 연구를 위한 패널데이터: 리뷰 및 제언. [Panel Data for Healthcare Research: Reviews and Suggestions]. Journal of Health Informatics and Statistics, 48(2), 89-101. (corresponding author) [Korean]
- 2023
- Drug_SNSMiner: standard pharmacovigilance pipeline for detection of adverse drug reaction using SNS data. Sci Rep, 13(1), 3779. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-28912-6 (co-first author)
- 2023
- Menstrual Tracking Mobile App Review by Consumers and Health Care Providers: Quality Evaluations Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth, 11, e40921. doi:10.2196/40921 (corresponding author)
- 2022
- Time to surgery and survival in breast cancer. BMC Surg, 22(1), 388. doi:10.1186/s12893-022-01835-1(corresponding author)
- 2022
- Marriage Intention among Korean Young Adults: Trends and Influencing Factors. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 19(14). doi:10.3390/ijerph19148557 (corresponding author)
- 2022
- Insights from Review and Content Analysis of Current COVID-19 Mobile Apps and Recommendations for Future Pandemics. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 19(22). doi:10.3390/ijerph192214652 (corresponding author)
- 2022
- Associations between Awareness of the Risk of Exposure to Pollutants Occurring at Fire Scenes and Health Beliefs among Metropolitan Firefighters in the Republic of Korea. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 19(14). doi:10.3390/ijerph19148860 (corresponding author)
- 2022
- Examination of Factors Influencing SCBA Washing Behavior among Firefighters in Metropolitan. Int J Environ Res Public Health, 19(4). doi:10.3390/ijerph19042240 (corresponding author)
- 2022
- ICD-11의 국내외 주요 이슈 및 향후 과제. [An Overview and Future Challenges of the WHO International Classification of Disease ICD-11]. Journal of Health Informatics and Statistics, 47(4), 241-249. (corresponding author) [Korean]
- 2022
- 청소년의 비만 및 과체중에 영향을 주는 요인: COVID-19 이전과 이후 비교. [Factors influencing obesity and overweight in adolescents: Comparison before and after COVID-19]. 대한보건연구, 48(1), 73-86. (corresponding author) [Korean]
- 2022
- 유방암 생존 예측: 모델 비교 및 유전적 특성의 효과. [Breast Cancer Survival Prediction: Model Comparison and Effect of Genetic Features]. 데이타베이스 연구, 38(1), 3-15. [Korean]