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The "Clinical Research Center for Chronic Obstructive
Airway Diseases (COAD Research Center)", located
at the Asan Medical Center (AMC) in Seoul, Korea,
is supported by the Korean Ministry of Health
&Welfare (MOHW) for nine years from 2004 to 2011.
Our mission is to create an infrastructure for
'Clinical Research on COPD and Asthma', and to
develop and implement 'Clinical Practice Guidelines'
on the specific diseases.
Prof. Sang Do Lee from Asan Medical Center is
appointed as the principal investigator (PI) to
work with around 80 researchers from 22 affiliated
hospitals and medical colleges throughout Korea,
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all of whom are dedicated to the highest quality
research in the following multidisciplinary fields:
Pulmonology, Allergy & Clinical Immunology, Critical
Care Medicine, Radiology, Evidence-based Medicine,
Epidemiology, and Sports Medicine.
COAD Research Center has
five specialized teams as follows;
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| Team I |
Clinical
Research on COAD |
Prof.
Sang-Do Lee, Pulmonology, AMC |
| Team II |
Clinical
Research on Asthma |
Prof.
Hee-Bum Moon, Allergy & heumatology,AMC |
| Team III
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Develop
& Implement Clinical Practice Guidelines on
Asthma & COPD |
Prof.
Sang-Heon Cho, Internal Medicine, Seoul National
University Hospital |
| Team IV
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Standardize
Clinical Research Methods & Develop Evaluation
Methods |
Prof.
Se-Gyu Kim, Internal Medicine, Severance Hospital
(Yonsei University Hospital) |
| Team V |
Support
Evidence-Based-Medicine and Assess Economic Efficiency |
Prof.
Hyung-Sik Ahn, Preventive Medicine, Korea University
Hospital |
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The staff members who are from AMC and University
of Ulsan College of Medicine and are joining COAD
center include Profs. Dong Soon Kim, Chae Man
Im, Jun Bum Seo, Yeon Mok Oh, Yoo Suk Cho, Sang
Bum Hong, Young Soo Jin, and Moo Song Lee. Our
mission comes alive with extensive collaborative
researches, symposium, seminars and workshops
as well as by the continuous and valuable interactions
among the researchers. We also attempt to present
and share our research results with other academic
and research institutions in Korea.
We're currently in the process of standardizing
various clinical evaluation methods including
personal and family histories of respiratory disease,
results of lung function test and allergy test,
quality of life assessment and other prognostic
factors.
Our efforts to develop and
implement the standardized clinical practice guidelines
for COPD and asthma will enable us to improve
wellness of life of all people and promote high
quality of medical care. We also plan to establish
an infrastructure to become the hub of clinical
research in the East Asia regions that will actively
conduct multinational clinical trials.
Director of the Clinical Research Center for Chronic
Obstructive Airway Diseases
Sang-Do Lee, MD, PhD
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