Yun Eul-sik, Vice-Chancellor and Medical Center Director of Korea University, will lay the foundation for a new future
Jan 02, 2025
Yoon Eul-sik, Vice-President of Korea University and Medical Center, said in his New Year's address that "2025 will be a year to lay the foundation for a new future" and asked to protect the value of life and the essence of medicine.
"We will not give in to any difficulties and will not stop making drastic progress," said Yoon, head of the medical center, stressing that it will be a leading medical institution in the conquest of incurable diseases.
It also announced that ▲ cultivating human resources that will be the basis of super-gap hospitals ▲ upgrading the smart medical environment and expanding investment ▲ open innovation with overseas institutions ▲ establishing future hospitals will be accelerated.
First of all, I would like to express my deepest condolences for last week's unexpected airliner disaster. I pray for the repose of the victims who changed their reputation and offer my sincere condolences to the bereaved families.
Dear family members of Korea University Medical Center,
I sincerely wish you all a peaceful and hopeful year in the new 乙巳 of 2025.
Last year, the unexpected chaos that hit the medical community was a huge ordeal for us. However, we are going through difficulties as one member with DNA unique to ancient medical centers that have overcome many crises in the past.
Korea University Medical School has established an optimal educational environment through renovation of the First Medical Center. In addition, we launched a full-fledged global capacity building project by opening a joint degree program and clinical practice program with Yale and Johns Hopkins University to cultivate scientists at the clinical foundation. Anam Hospital introduced the latest robot equipment, Da Vinci 5, for the first time in Asia, surpassing 10,000 robot surgeries, and raised the level of medical services in Korea to the next level. Based on its solid infrastructure, Guro Hospital showed off its prowess as a high-level general hospital specializing in severe diseases by recording the first grade of adequacy evaluation for intensive care units and neonatal intensive care units every year. Ansan Hospital also secured future growth engines through bio research facilities by establishing a top-notch life research center in Korea through the expansion of the Future Medical Center.
Most importantly, thanks to the efforts and dedication of all faculty and staff, including medical staff, we are overcoming the crisis of medical gaps and firmly protecting the patients' trust in ancient hospitals. I sincerely thank the family of the medical center for their hard work.
Dear faculty and staff, at the moment our society faces a number of chaos, but the ancient medical center will not give in to any difficulties and will not stop making drastic progress in the new year.
As a medical institution centered on severe intractable diseases, we will definitely re-establish the concept of a high-level general hospital as a pathfinder that takes the first step in conquering intractable diseases. Through the application of smart ultra-precise medicine, we will lead the establishment of a sustainable medical delivery system in Korea by playing our original role in focusing on patients suffering from serious diseases.
We will also boldly invest in nurturing human resources that will be the basis of super-gap hospitals. Through changes that encompass people, facilities, and systems, we will create our own permanent system that is not easily shaken by changes in socio-economic external conditions. This will certainly lead to improvements in key medical indicators such as treatment outcomes, readmission rates, and patient satisfaction, which will appear as a differentiated internal and external evaluation of our medical centers.
Korea University Medical Center is the only unrivaled cloud-based medical information system among high-level hospitals in Korea, and has built an optimal smart medical environment. In 2025, we will further advance data security utilization centers, personal information lifecycle management, and mobile EMR systems, and raise the level of research and treatment to the highest level through bold digital transformation that applies the latest ICT technology, artificial intelligence, and big data.
Open innovation with overseas institutions will be a new growth engine. We will further solidify the area of next-generation convergence research, technology transfer, and talent training by solidifying strategic and practical cooperation and alliances with leading organizations in the world. Medical Science Park, equipped with advanced research infrastructure including Jeong Mong-gu, will stand at the center of cooperation and become a global R&D hub, and will take a step closer to realizing the 'Korea's vaccine sovereignty' through the Vaccine Innovation Center.
The blueprint for the fourth hospital is also taking shape. We will create a new medical laboratory by creating a hospital that was not in the world where the latest medical technology and smart systems are installed in the Dongtan area, and future medicine centered on the ideal patient experience is achieved through the best infection control and workflow.
The 100th anniversary of KU Medicine, which will come in 2028, will also begin in earnest. We will closely prepare for each field, including academic, research, fund, external cooperation, and social contribution, so that the noble spirit of Mrs. Rosetta Hall, Wooseok Kim Jong-ik, and Inchon Kim Sung-soo can be inherited and developed.
Dear families of medical centers, the big and small innovations that each and every one of you tries every day in their respective positions are the most valuable driving force of Korea University Medical Center. We will always communicate with all members so that all medical center families can always work happily and happily. The path to becoming the best medical institution we are pursuing and the path to becoming the happiest hospital for our employees will never be different.
2025 will be a year to overcome the most difficult moments and lay the foundation for a new future. To protect the value of life and the essence of medicine, I really want to achieve that goal with you.
"We will not give in to any difficulties and will not stop making drastic progress," said Yoon, head of the medical center, stressing that it will be a leading medical institution in the conquest of incurable diseases.
It also announced that ▲ cultivating human resources that will be the basis of super-gap hospitals ▲ upgrading the smart medical environment and expanding investment ▲ open innovation with overseas institutions ▲ establishing future hospitals will be accelerated.
First of all, I would like to express my deepest condolences for last week's unexpected airliner disaster. I pray for the repose of the victims who changed their reputation and offer my sincere condolences to the bereaved families.
Dear family members of Korea University Medical Center,
I sincerely wish you all a peaceful and hopeful year in the new 乙巳 of 2025.
Last year, the unexpected chaos that hit the medical community was a huge ordeal for us. However, we are going through difficulties as one member with DNA unique to ancient medical centers that have overcome many crises in the past.
Korea University Medical School has established an optimal educational environment through renovation of the First Medical Center. In addition, we launched a full-fledged global capacity building project by opening a joint degree program and clinical practice program with Yale and Johns Hopkins University to cultivate scientists at the clinical foundation. Anam Hospital introduced the latest robot equipment, Da Vinci 5, for the first time in Asia, surpassing 10,000 robot surgeries, and raised the level of medical services in Korea to the next level. Based on its solid infrastructure, Guro Hospital showed off its prowess as a high-level general hospital specializing in severe diseases by recording the first grade of adequacy evaluation for intensive care units and neonatal intensive care units every year. Ansan Hospital also secured future growth engines through bio research facilities by establishing a top-notch life research center in Korea through the expansion of the Future Medical Center.
Most importantly, thanks to the efforts and dedication of all faculty and staff, including medical staff, we are overcoming the crisis of medical gaps and firmly protecting the patients' trust in ancient hospitals. I sincerely thank the family of the medical center for their hard work.
Dear faculty and staff, at the moment our society faces a number of chaos, but the ancient medical center will not give in to any difficulties and will not stop making drastic progress in the new year.
As a medical institution centered on severe intractable diseases, we will definitely re-establish the concept of a high-level general hospital as a pathfinder that takes the first step in conquering intractable diseases. Through the application of smart ultra-precise medicine, we will lead the establishment of a sustainable medical delivery system in Korea by playing our original role in focusing on patients suffering from serious diseases.
We will also boldly invest in nurturing human resources that will be the basis of super-gap hospitals. Through changes that encompass people, facilities, and systems, we will create our own permanent system that is not easily shaken by changes in socio-economic external conditions. This will certainly lead to improvements in key medical indicators such as treatment outcomes, readmission rates, and patient satisfaction, which will appear as a differentiated internal and external evaluation of our medical centers.
Korea University Medical Center is the only unrivaled cloud-based medical information system among high-level hospitals in Korea, and has built an optimal smart medical environment. In 2025, we will further advance data security utilization centers, personal information lifecycle management, and mobile EMR systems, and raise the level of research and treatment to the highest level through bold digital transformation that applies the latest ICT technology, artificial intelligence, and big data.
Open innovation with overseas institutions will be a new growth engine. We will further solidify the area of next-generation convergence research, technology transfer, and talent training by solidifying strategic and practical cooperation and alliances with leading organizations in the world. Medical Science Park, equipped with advanced research infrastructure including Jeong Mong-gu, will stand at the center of cooperation and become a global R&D hub, and will take a step closer to realizing the 'Korea's vaccine sovereignty' through the Vaccine Innovation Center.
The blueprint for the fourth hospital is also taking shape. We will create a new medical laboratory by creating a hospital that was not in the world where the latest medical technology and smart systems are installed in the Dongtan area, and future medicine centered on the ideal patient experience is achieved through the best infection control and workflow.
The 100th anniversary of KU Medicine, which will come in 2028, will also begin in earnest. We will closely prepare for each field, including academic, research, fund, external cooperation, and social contribution, so that the noble spirit of Mrs. Rosetta Hall, Wooseok Kim Jong-ik, and Inchon Kim Sung-soo can be inherited and developed.
Dear families of medical centers, the big and small innovations that each and every one of you tries every day in their respective positions are the most valuable driving force of Korea University Medical Center. We will always communicate with all members so that all medical center families can always work happily and happily. The path to becoming the best medical institution we are pursuing and the path to becoming the happiest hospital for our employees will never be different.
2025 will be a year to overcome the most difficult moments and lay the foundation for a new future. To protect the value of life and the essence of medicine, I really want to achieve that goal with you.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
