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Yongsoon Park
Professor
Hanyang University
Korea
Biography
Yongsoon Park received her B.S. degree in Food and Nutrition from Hanyang University in 1988, her M.S. from the Department of Nutrition, State University of New York at Buffalo in 1992, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Washington State University in 1998. Dr. Park was granted a fellowship for post-doctoral study at Saint Luke’s Hospital’s Lipid and Diabetes Research Centre which is part of the University of Missouri in Kansas City, and at the Endocrine Research Unit of the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Currently, Dr. Park is a Professor in the Department of Food and Nutrition at Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea since 2005. Professor Park has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, reviews, and book chapters. She served as a consultant to the Korean Food and Drug Administration, and an editor of Journal of Medicinal Food, Journal of nutrition and Practice, and Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science. Professor Park is also a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Society of Clinical Nutrition, International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids, Korean Nutrition Society, Korean Obesity Association, Korean Lipid and Atherosclerosis Association, and Korean Society of Medicinal Crop Science.
Research Interest
Lipid and fatty acid metabolism, omega-3 fatty acids, and clinical trials of functional foods.