BK21 FOUR R&E Center for Learning Health Systems, Korea University
NEWSLETTER
NEWSLETTER VOL.1, AUGUST 2022
Welcome
Welcome to the first newsletter of BK21 FOUR R&E Center for Learning Health System in 2022. The purpose of our newsletter is to share and to introduce the news of our center to researchers worldwide who are working around our center’s research and educational theme. We would like to meet researchers and improve our competencies in the area of learning health system in community and clinical knowledge. Through this newsletter, we introduced our achievements in reaching up-to-date knowledge. Looking forward to sharing experience and expertise.
About
We are BK21 FOUR R&E Center for Learning Health System in Graduate School of Korea University. A learning health system (AHRQ): a health system in which internal data and experience are systematically integrated with external evidence, and that knowledge is put into practice. As a result, patients get higher quality, safer, more efficient care, and health care delivery organizations become better places to work.
News
Four Participating Researchers Were Named as 2022 Seok-Top Research Awardees
To commemorate the 117th anniversary of Korea University, 2022 Seok-Top Research Awardees(*) were announced and four of our researchers from departments of medicine and nursing are among them. * The Seok-Top Research Award has been held since 2016 to publicize and reward professors who achieved outstanding research achievements to improve and encourage research motivation *
Research Highlight
Kyunghae Kim Assistant Professor, Dep’t of Nursing
Associations among marijuana use, health-related quality of life, exercise, depression and sleep in cancer survivors J Adv Nurs. 2021 77(5):2386-2397
“This is the first study that evaluates the associations between cannabis use, the purpose of cannabis use, HRQoL, exercise, depression, and sleep in a nationally representative sample of US adult cancer survivors.”
Jaeyong Park Professor, Dep’t of Integrated Biomedicine and Life Science
ANO1 regulates the maintenance of stemness in glioblastoma stem cells by stabilizing EGFRvIII Oncogene 2021 40(8):1490-1502
“This study is an important research achievement scientifically suggesting a therapeutic strategy for controlling the stem cell ability of brain tumor stem cells, the main cause of intractable brain.”
Sarah Yu PhD Student, Dep’t of Public Health Science
Evaluating the impact of the nationwide public–private mix (PPM) program for tuberculosis under National Health Insurance in South Korea: a difference in difference analysis Plos Med 18(7): e1003717
“This study showed the effects of patients-centered management for tuberculosis patients occurring in the undeserved population by applying the tuberculosis nurse system in the private hospitals in contrast with operating mainly in the public health center.”
Best Student Researcher 2022
Hyunyoung, Shin Dep’t in Intergreated Biomedical and Life Science
“ Rhamnogalacturonan I-rich polysaccharide isolated from fermented persimmon fruit increases macrophagestimulatory
activity by activating MAPK and NF-κB signaling”
Notes from International Conferences
Minji, Hwang Program in Public Health Science
“ Decreasing suicide inequalities but with notable exception in young women in Korea Population between 1995-2015”