Seoul, Korea
• Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital – Korea
Sang Chul Lee, MD, PhD, FIPP is Professor of the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. He received his PhD in 1988 at Postgraduate School, Seoul National University. His training as an anesthesiologist was given at Seoul National University Hospital. He got his board of anesthesiology in 1983, and started to work as faculty at the Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine of Seoul National University Hospital and Seoul National University College of Medicine in 1986. He had worked as a chairman of the department from 2007 to 2012.
Prof. Lee is the President of Korean Spinal Pain Society, the President of Korean IASP Chapter, the President of Korean Society of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Chapter, the Director of Institute of Complementary and Integrative Medicine at Medical Research Center of Seoul National University, and a Member of National Academy of Medicine of Korea. He is a Consultant of Korean Society of Diagnostic Thermology. And he was the 16th President (2008. 11-2010. 11) of Korean Society of Anesthesiologists, and was the 14th President (2004. 11-2006. 11) of Korean Pain Society.
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Internationally, Prof. Lee is the President of Asian Australasian Federation of Pain Societies, and also a NE Asia Section Leader, Council Member and Board member of FIPP examination of World Institute of Pain. He is an Honarary member of Taiwan Pain Society, and he is also working as an Editorial Board of Acta Anaesthesiologica Taiwanica (Ma Tsui Hsueh Tsa Chi), the official journal of Taiwan Society of Anesthesiologists, an Editorial Board of Journal of Clinical Rehabilitative Tissue Engineering Research (China), and an Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Anesthesiology, the official journal of Chinese Society of Anesthesiologists. He was the 13th President of World Society of Pain Clinicians (2006-2008) and advisory board member of WSPC.
His main interests are focused on chronic pain management, especially for minimally invasive procedures. He published more than 250 articles with his colleagues, gave more than 110 invited lectures at international meetings and more than 15 invited lectures at foreign hospitals.
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