Yoon Sup Choi
A unique digital healthcare professional with interdisciplinary expertise and research experiences encompassing biotechnology, computer science, and medicine. Passionate about creating social values and benefits to patients based on the convergence of healthcare and digital technology, especially accelerating early-stage digital healthcare startups.
Extensive prior experiences in digital healthcare, bioinformatics, computational biology, cancer biology. Published 10+ peer-reviewed scientific research articles, including first-author paper in Science; and cited over hundreds times by peers. Editorial Board Member of Nature (npj) Digital Medicine.
Founded Digital Healthcare Institute, which is the first research organization to study digital healthcare area in South Korea (in 2014). Co-founded Digital Healthcare Partners, the first and the only startup accelerator specialized to healthcare and medical area, having invested and accelerated a number of promising digital health startups.
Influencer, opinion leader and evangelist in digital healthcare. A prolific and high profile blogger on digital healthcare. "최윤섭의 Healthcare Innovation ( http://www.yoonsupchoi.com)" is the first and still one of the few blogs that introduced digital healthcare to South Korea. Author of best-selling books, "Healthcare Innovation" (Ranked #1 Trend/Future section in Korea)(2014) and "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine" (Ranked #14 Business section in Korea)(2018).
Ph.D. in Computational Biology from the POSTECH; B.S in Computer Science and Life Science (dual degree) from the POSTECH; research experiences in Stanford University; worked as a Research Professor at Cancer Research Institute of Seoul National University College of Medicine (acquired professorship at the age of 28); and worked as a Project Manager at Healthcare Group at KT Advanced Institute of Technology (the youngest Project Manager in the corporate).
