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Associate Professor,
Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine
#Epigenetics in epidemiology #Aging biomarkers #Social determinants of health #Healthy aging
Education
2007. 02. B.A., Seoul National University, School of Human Ecology
2010. 02. M.P.H., Seoul National University, Graduate School of Public Health (Epidemiology)
2020. 08. Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health (Epidemiology)
Positions & Appointments
2020. 02 - 2020. 08.
Senior Research Specialist, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health
2020. 09 - 2023. 09.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
2023. 09 - 2024. 08
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
2023. 09 - 2025. 08
Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine
2025. 09 -
Associate Professor, Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine
Major Publications
1) Mediation of Social Determinants and Hypertension by Epigenetic Age in CARDIA (2025), Hypertension 82(3), https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.124.2408
2) Cell-Free DNA Methylation-Based Inflammation Score as a Marker for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Among People Living with HIV (2024), Hepatology International, DOI: 10.1007/s12072-024-10768-1
3) Associations of Urban Blue and Green Spaces with Coronary Artery Calcification in Black Individuals and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods (2024), Circulation, DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.067992
4) Inequalities in Urban Greenness and Epigenetic Aging: Different Associations by Race and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status (2023), Science Advances, 9 (26) eadf 8140
5) Associations of Adverse Childhood Experiences with Accelerated Epigenetic Aging in Midlife (2023), JAMA Network Open 6 (6) e2317987
6) Genome-Wide DNA Methylation Association Study of Recent and Cumulative Marijuana Use in Middle Aged Adults (2023), Molecular Psychiatry 1-11
7) Relative Contributions of Six Lifestyle- and Health-related Exposures to Epigenetic Aging: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study (2022), Clinical Epigenetics 14 (1) 1-12
8) Associations of Exposure to Metal and Metal Mixtur4es with Thyroid Hormones: Results from the NHANES 2007-2012 (2022), Environmental Research e113413
9) Accelerated Epigenetic Age among Women with Invasive Cervical Cancer and HIV-Infection in Nigeria (2022), Frontiers in Public Health 1193
10) DNA Methylation GrimAge and Incident Diabetes: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study (2021), Diabetes 70 (6) 1404-1413
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