Young Hee Yoon is Professor of Ophthalmology at the ASAN Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. After she had completed her medical school and ophthalmic residency at Seoul National University in Korea, she continued her postdoctoral research fellowship for 3 years at the basic research laboratory at Stanford University. And then she completed her vitreoretinal clinical fellowship for 2 years at Doheny Eye Institute/USC and Loma Linda University in Los Angeles.
Since she returned to Korea in 1993, she has been very active in clinical practice, basic research as well as retina education. Professor Yoon is an active vitreoretinal surgeon, conducting over 14,000 vitreoretinal surgeries including artificial retinal implantation, a dedicated teacher training over 50 vitreoretinal fellows, and has been involved in 40 phase II and III clinical trials. She is a member of several prominent international societies, including the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO), the Association for the Vision and ophthalmology (ARVO), the American Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS), the Retina Society, the Club Jules Gonin, and Macula Society.
Her main research interests are retinal cell death and ocular angiogenesis. She has authored or co-authored over 150 articles in various international peer-reviewed journals and has been awarded several honors, including an Academic Achievement Award from the Korean Retina Society and the Arthur Lim Award from the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology. In 2015, she was inducted into the Doheny Society of Scholars at the Doheny Eye Institute.
