Local Organising Committee

Prof. Hye-Sung Won is currently the chairperson of Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of Ulsan College of Medicine and Asan Medical Center. She is a director of Fetal Treatment Center in Asan Medical Center.  Her special interests are Prenatal Diagnosis of fetal structural anomalies, Fetal Cardiology, Twins, Fetal Surgery and Fetal Interventional Procedures. She established the first Fetal Treatment Center in South Korea, which has been leading the diagnosis and treatment of fetal structural anomaly.

Professor Won is the President of the Korean Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (KSUOG) and the Chair of Fetal Assessment and Management Committee at Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Professor Won, as the leader in maternal fetal medicine on Korean society, promotes research and education in ultrasound and is actively involved in supporting and connecting many other institutions together.

Hye-Sung Won is also a leading clinician of the largest Fetal Treatment Center in Korea and there making clinical and academic progresses of fetal diagnosis and therapy possible to develop further both nationally and internationally. She is exceptional in making diagnoses for cardiac abnormality including rare diseases, which is a very important part of perinatal counselling and management. She is the first clinician to do balloon aortic valvuloplasty for a fetus with severe aortic valve stenosis at 29 weeks of gestation in Korea. Moreover, she is specialized in prenatal diagnosis for various fetal disease and fetal therapy including shunt operation, fetal transfusion, radiofrequency ablation and fetoscopic laser surgery. She made over 500 cases of shunt operation for fetal pleural effusion, ascites, and lower urinary tract obstruction since 1999. She had done more than 200 cases of fetoscopic laser surgery for twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, and the results showed high survival rate.

Country: Republic of Korea (South Korea)

Field: Obstetrics, Maternal-Fetal-Medicine

Specialties: Prenatal diagnosis; Fetal anomalies; Fetal cardiology; Fetal therapy; Fetal interventional procedures

Languages:  Korean, English

Professor Ja-Young Kwon, MD is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Maternal-Fetal Medicine) at Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. She is a member of Website & Social Media Committee of American Society for Reproductive Immunology, serves as academic committee member of Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Korean Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and committee chair of International Relations for Korean Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr Kwon holds a B.A and Ph.D. in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. She conducted her research in reproductive immunology as a visiting Assistant Professor under the supervision of Professor Gil Mor at the Division of Reproductive Sciences, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science, Reproductive Immunology Unit, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. As of 2018, she holds 5 local patents, has published over 90 peerreviewed publications and 3 text books, awarded over 10 times including ASRI travel grant award (2015). Her main areas of interest are placental immunology, preeclampsia, fetal reprogramming, and placental stem cells.

Fields: Obstetrics, Maternal-Fetal-Medicine
Specialties: Prenatal diagnosis; Fetal anomalies; Fetal cardiology; Fetal therapy; Fetal interventional procedures
Languages: Korean, English

Prof. Park is currently working as a professor at the Catholic University of Korea. He has been working in the field of obstetrics and gynecology for 23 years, and his main field is maternal-fetal medicine. The obstetrics and gynecology patients he usually sees are high-risk pregnant women, mothers with fetal malformations, and patients with uterine myomas or ovarian tumors during pregnancy. So far, he has participated in about 100 SCI papers.

Prof Seol is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the department of maternal-fetal medicine of Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Seoul, Korea. She is interested in cervical elastography and maternal-fetal doppler. As the director of the Obstetric Ultrasound Research Group of the Korean Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, she is conducting various multicenter studies related to obstetric ultrasound in Korea.