Yoo Jae-sung 유재성

Clinical focus

• Shoulder: rotator cuff tears, dislocation, arthritis, calcific tendinitis, frozen shoulder
• Elbow: golfer's and tennis elbow, tendon injuries
• Knee: cruciate ligament reconstruction, meniscus injuries
• Upper and lower limb trauma and fractures
• Sports injuries
• Robotic joint replacement: knee, hip, shoulder

Career

• Graduated from the Graduate School of Medicine, Catholic University of Korea (Seoul)
• PhD in Orthopedic Surgery, Catholic University of Korea
• Former Professor of Shoulder & Elbow Surgery, Dankook University College of Medicine
• Former Head, Joint Center, Asan Chungmu Hospital
• Team doctor, Korean national handball team
• Former partner physician, Hanwha Eagles (KBO)
• Field doctor, KT wiz (KBO)
• Team physician, Chungnam Asan FC
• Tour physician, KLPGA (Korea Ladies Professional Golf Association)
• Medical adviser, MBC 'Doctor In'
• Team physician, Asan Basketball Association
• Listed in Marquis Who's Who
• Winner, outstanding researcher award in U.S. orthopedic sports medicine
• Winner, Asian international outstanding researcher award
• Best Paper Award, Korean Fracture Society
• Advisory member, Korea Workers' Compensation & Welfare Service
• Insurance Director, Chungcheongnam-do Medical Association
• TV and media: MBC 'Doctor In', SBS 'Second Act of Life', TJB 'Medical Plus', Kukmin Ilbo 'Daily Health' and 'Kuki TV', Chosun Ilbo 'Health Chosun TV'

Memberships

International training & courses

• AO Trauma Course: Principles in Operative Fracture Management
• AO Trauma Course: Advanced Principles in Operative Fracture Management
• AO Spine Principles Symposium
• AO Spine Advanced Video Symposium
• Korea Japan Knee Osteotomy Society Symposium
• Severance Arthroscopy Symposium
• Korean Orthopedic Ultrasound Society musculoskeletal ultrasound workshop
• KSBMR Advanced Program for Metabolic Bone Diseases
• Microsurgery cadaveric workshop
• APAC Shoulder Arthroscopy Repair Master Instructional Course
• Korean Society of Spine Surgery cadaver workshop
• Harvard University HMX Pro course
• Visiting fellowship, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

Selected SCI(E) publications

• More than 100 papers in SCI, SCIE and international journals, including new arthroscopic techniques for acromioclavicular joint injury and bony defects in shoulder dislocation (KSSTA, Arthroscopy), anatomical studies of the rotator cuff (KSSTA, OTSR), plate designs for distal clavicle and proximal humerus fractures (OTSR, BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders), re-tear prevention in massive rotator cuff repair (Journal of Orthopaedics), anterolateral knee ligament injury (Knee), arthroscopic ankle ligament repair (Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology), and exercise therapy for tennis elbow (CIOS).
• Author of 'The Thumb'; contributor to the ESSKA ICL textbook and a handball medicine textbook.
• Reviewer or editorial board member for more than 50 international journals, including Scientific Reports (Nature), Injury, Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, OTSR, BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, Diagnostics, Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics and World Journal of Orthopaedics.
• Invited speaker: International Congress of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, Asian Shoulder and Elbow Association, Conmed Linvatec Asia Arthroscopy Symposium.