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Jeong-Wook Seo (Pathologist) (December 17, 1955) was a professor at the department of pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul Korea, specializing in the pathology and the information science in 1987-2021. He became a professor emeritus from March 2021. His researches and services as a pathologist were focused on the pathology of adult and pediatric heart diseases. He also contributed to the library services, open access, editorial works on journals, the global health and digital transformation of hospital services.

His careers at the university and hospitals are as follows: Director, Seoul National University Medical Library in 2005-2013; Assistant Dean for academic and research affairs, Seoul National University College of Medicine in 2007-2010; Chairman, Department of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Hospital in 2008-2012; Director, Department of Pediatric Pathology, Seoul National University Children's Hospital in 1995-1999; Director, Electronic Medical Record Team, Seoul National University Hospital in 2003-2004; Director, Medical Information Center, Seoul National University Hospital in 2004-2006; Chief, Office of Information and Archives, JW Lee Center for Global Medicine in 2012-2014.

His careers at the academic societies are as follows: Editor-in-chief of the Korean Journal of Pathology (issn1738-1843) in 2007-2008; Editor-in-chief of the Basic and Applied Pathology (issn1755-9294) in 2008-2012; Chairman of the board of directors of the Korean Society of Pathology in 2009-2010; President, Cardiopulmonary Pathology Working Group, Korean Society of Pathologists in 2004-2006; President, Cardiac Pathology Study Group, Korean Society of Cardiology, 2003-2021; President, Korean Medical Library Association (KMLA) in 2006-2008; Secretary General(2008-2010), Chair, Editorial policy and Ethics Committee(2010-2012), Chair, Information Technology and Library committee (2012-2014), Executive Vice-President(2014-2018), Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors (APAME) in 2008-2018; Director, Committee for International Affairs, Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE) in 2008-2017.

His careers at the international, social and commercial organizations are as follows: Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Health Information and Library Services (WHO CC HILS) in 2014-2016; Chair, Regional Journal Selection Committee, Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM) in 2012-2016; Chairman of Board of Directors, C.O.D.E. (Creative Commons Korea) in 2013-2017; President and CEO, Ezmedicom, Inc in 2000-2003; Chair, Catholic Doctors Association, The Seoul Archdiocese in 2013-2016.

Cardiac pathology
Dr Seo was an expert on cardiac conduction system, congenital heart diseases and adult heart diseases. The thesis for Dr Seo's master degree in 1983 was on the conduction system. He also interested in the embryology of heart and congenital heart diseases. His thesis for the PhD degree was on the embryology of the heart and the development of the bulboventricular malformation. Hearts in conjoined twins was Dr Seo's special expertise and published papers on the dufferent forms of fusions of hearts in conjoined body. Dr Seo visited Dr Rowena Spencer at New Orleans, Louisiana in 1991 and studied together on the conjoined twins.

He extended the experience from the conjoined twins to study latareality of hearts in complex congenital heart diseases at Royal Brompton National Heart and Lung Institute (professors Rpbert H Anderson and S. Yen Ho) and St. Geonrges Hospital Medical School (professor Nigel A Brown and Michael H. Davies). The mice model of iv/iv mutation had various forms of abnormal latarality including right isoemrism and left isomerism as well as situs inversus.

Dr Seo collected autopsied hearts died of congenital heart diseases before or after operation from 1983. Professors Je G Chi (Pathology, Seoul National University), Kyung Phil Suh (Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Seoul National University) and Young Kwan Park (Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Sejong Hospital) were mentors of the heart collection p[rogram. Seoul National University and Sejong Hospital were active for pediatric autopsy. The heart collection grew up to 500 hearts in 2000. After the year of 2000, adult autopsied hearts and transplantation removed hearts were added. The heart collection was supported by the Korean Society of Cardiology and Woochon Cardio-Neuro-Vascular Research Foundation. The Three Day Seminar on Congenital Heart Disease (3-Day Seminar) was a training program for young doctors using the autopsied heart collection. The Seminar was an annual program founded in 1995 and the 27th seminar was in November 2022. The Asia Pacific Cardiovascular Intervention and Surgery (APCIS) was founded in 2017 as a conjoined adult and pediatric program of the 3-Day Seminar.

The Cardiac Pathology Study Group was a body of Korean Society of Cardiology to support the 3 Day Seminar and Dr Seo was the president in 2005-2021. The Woochon Research Foundation, the sponsoring organizations of the Asia Pacific Cardiovascular Intervention and Surgery (APCIS).

The anatomy and pathology of the conduction system of the heart in regards to the abnormal heart rhythm are current research field. Two important papers are published. These researches focused on the ventricular conduction system and the atrial conduction system.]

Library information
He is one of founding members (2006) of the Western Pacific Region Index Medicus (WPRIM: http://wprim.org) project which is a regional activity of the Global Health Library of World Health Organization and he served as the chairperson of the Regional Journal Selection Committee of WPRIM in 2012-2016. In the founding newsletter of the WPRIM, Dr Seo addressed key steps for knowledge sharing; "Our first goal is to aggregate our regional research information to build a significant amount of data from national and regional resources. Our second goal is to upgrade the quality of this information by circulating it for review by peers and to have it cited by our fellow researchers. Our third and most important goal is to be aware of our own knowledge resources and exchange these resources to further improve work towards disease prevention, health protection and health for all."

He also addressed the dissemination of knowledge on health needs multiple resources and multiple steps.

He was the Director (Feb. 2014- Oct. 2016) of WHO Collaborating Center for Health Information and Library Services (WHO CC HILS). As the director of WHO CCC HILS, he supported library services on health by WHO. Supporting the institutional repository of WHO (http://iris.wpro.who.int/) is one of three ToR’s. Library services for country offices of less served countries and delivering health information for professional activities of these countries are others. He joined “Making the e-Health Connection: Global Partnerships, Local Solutions” at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in July 2008. He was an active participant and learned a lot. He was the Director of the Seoul National University Medical Library until August 2013 since 2005. He was the president of Korean Medical Library Association (KMLA) in 2006-2007. He contributed to the Korean Librarians's association to become a member of international societies of librarians.

As a head of Seoul National University Medical Library, Dr Seo emphasized the librarians to publish research papers. His librarians and himseld together published papers of current usage trand of open access articles.

Medical journal editors’association
He was the editor-in-chief of Basic and Applied Pathology and Korean Journal of Pathology. He is a member of the Korean Association of Medical Journal Editors (KAMJE). He also founded the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors (APAME: 2008) as a companion body of WPRIM and he is now the Executive Vice-president of APAME. He was a main organizer of the Congress of the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors (APAME) in May 2008 and August 2011. Because he is an author and an editor, he could cultivate his own enthusiasm and ambition on better services by scholarly journals. He is an activist on Open Access initiatives in Korea, and he is the chairman of Creative Commons Korea. His research areas on library information include bibliometric study on research outcome, plagiarism assessment, open access policy and digital library.

Electronic medical records
He was the principal director of the electronic medical records project of his university hospital in 2003-2006. He was the director of Medical Information Center of Seoul National University Hospital in 2004-2006. He won the Medal awarded by the President of Korea (Geunjungpojang) at the 11th Korean e-Business Awards on 11 October, 2007.

E-commerce and business developer
He was the founder and CEO of a company Ezhospital (now Ezmedicom) in 2000-2003, a B2B e-business company for hospital suppliers. Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) and 25 big hospitals in Korea successfully outsourced the purchasing department, storage and logistics facilities. At the initial stage of digital innovation by SNUH, the McKinsey & Company was the partner consulting firm hired by the hospital. Now Ezmedicom is the biggest company in Korea on e-commerce on hospital supplies.

Heart museum
He founded heart museum in 2019. The museum collects heart specimens as well as historical devices and equipment for diagnosis and treatment of cardiac diseases. Heart specimens in the museum covers real human heart and digital copies of these hearts. Three dimensional printed hearts are produced from CT scan of patients and diverse categories of diseased hearts are produced collected and displayed. The museum offers online virtual services as well as site visits. The budget for the operation of the museum is from the Woochon Cardio-Neuro-Vascular Research Foundation and Sejong hospital. Dr Young-Kwan Park is the initial sponsor of the museum. Dr Seo is the chairperson of the foundation.

Education and training background
He was born in December 17, 1955 at Chungnam province, Korea. He lived in Daejeon until middle school. From high school he moved to Seoul. He graduated Daejeon Joongang Elementary School(1968), Daejeon Middle School(1971) and Kyunggi High School(1974). He completed MD (1980) and PhD degrees (1987) at Seoul National University and held postdoctoral fellowships at the National Heart and Lung Institute of the University of London (1989-1991), St Georges Hospital Medical School (1989-1991) and the University of Pittsburgh (1990, 1994).