Sim, Jin-ah
Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Public Health and Healthcare Management,
The Catholic Universtiy of Korea
1. Academic/research career
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public Health and Healthcare Management, The Catholic Universtiy of Korea, 03/2026-present
Adjunct Assistant Professor, UMass Chan Medical School, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences. Massachusetts, USA 03/2025-present
Assistant Professor, Division of AI Convergence, Medical AI, Hallym University, Republic of Korea, 06/2021-present
Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Hallym University, Republic of Korea
2. Educational background
Post-doctoral Fellow, 05/2019-05/2021 (Supervisor: Dr. Huang I-C)
Department of Epidemiology/ Cancer Control, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, U.S.A
PhD, 03/2015-02/2018 (Supervisor: Dr. Yun YH)
Biomedical science (System Medical Informatics), Seoul National University, College of Medicine,Republic of Korea
MS, 03/2013-02/2015
Medical Informatics, Seoul National University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
BS, 03/2005-08/2009
English Education, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
3. Other career
Post-doctoral Research Associate, 06/2019-05/2021
Department of Epidemiology/ Cancer Control, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, U.S.A
Research Assistant Professor, 03/2018-06/2019
Cancer Research Institute, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Research Associate, 08/2017-01/2018
National Cancer Center, Republic of Korea
Research Associate, 11/2012-08/2014
National Cancer Center, Republic of Korea
4. Area of Interests
Medical/Health Informatics (Digital health, self-management program); Medical/Health Data Science (Healthcare big data analysis); Medical/Health Artificial Intelligence (Prediction modeling, clustering, network analysis); Cancer Survivorship; Cancer Epidemiology; Health Outcome Research (Patient-reported outcomes)
Full-time graduate students
Kim, Hak Jun
Hallym University
Graduate student (Ph.D course)
2021.3~
Park, Da Seul
Hallym University
Graduate student (PhD course)
2022.3~
Kim, Dan Yu
Hallym University
Graduate student (MS course)
2024.9~
Jang, Eunseon
Hallym University
Graduate student (MS course)
2025.3~
Kim, Minsu
Hallym University
Graduate student (MS course)
2025.9~
Lee, Wantaek
The Catholic University
Graduate student (MS course)
2026.9~
Hallym University
Undergradate intern in 2024-2026
Kim, Sieun
The Catholic University
Graduate student (MS course)
2026.9~
Hallym University
Undergraduate student (Research Intern)
2024.9~
Kim, Sol
Hallym University
Graduate student (Research Intern)
2025.3~
The Catholic University
Graduate student (MS course)
2026.9~
Alumni
Yu, Jiwon
Ph.D candidate in
Seoul National University, College of Medicine.
Master in 2023-2025
Hallym University
Master student
2022.03~2024.02.