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Keon Young Park, M.D., Ph.D.

Keon Young Park, M.D., Ph.D.

  • Graduate
  • General Surgery Residency Program, 2023

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Biography

Keon Young Park, M.D., Ph.D. is currently a general surgery resident with the UCSF Department of Surgery. She undertook undergraduate studies at Emory University majoring in Physics. She received a medical degree from the Emory University School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering jointly from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University where she received the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship.

Dr. Park began her general surgery residency training as a categorical resident at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she completed the first two years of general surgery training. Between 2018-2020, she completed a T32 Research Training Program.

Dr. Park's clinical interest is in pediatric surgery and inflammatory bowel disease. Her research interest is to combine computational and experimental biology to develop patient-specific intestinal models to predict disease progression and treatment responses in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Education & Training

  Institution  
  Degree    
  Dept or School    
  End Date    
  • Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
  • MD
  • Medicine
  • 05/2016
  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
  • PhD
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • 12/2012
  • Emory University, Atlanta
  • BA
  • Physics
  • 05/2008

    • Awards & Honors

      Award  
      Confired By    
      Date    
  • The annual Muriel Steele Society Honor Roll
  • UCSF Department of Surgery
  • 2021
  • Travel Award
  • UW Center for Human Genomics and Precision
  • 2019
  • Poster award
  • University of Wisconsin Madison
  • 2019
  • Teaching Fellowship
  • HHMI
  • 2013
  • Travel Award
  • International Protease Society
  • 2013
  • Poster award
  • Gordon Research Conference
  • 2012

    • Interests

    • Inflammatory Bowel Disease
    • Intestinal immunology
    • Organotypic models
    • Personalized medicine
    • Pediatric Surgery

    Publications

    MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 16
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    1. Humayun M, Ayuso JM, Park KY, Martorelli Di Genova B, Skala MC, Kerr SC, Knoll LJ, Beebe DJ. Innate immune cell response to host-parasite interaction in a human intestinal tissue microphysiological system. Sci Adv. 2022 05 06; 8(18):eabm8012. View in PubMed
    2. Li C, Humayun M, Walker GM, Park KY, Connors B, Feng J, Pellitteri Hahn MC, Scarlett CO, Li J, Feng Y, Clark RL, Hefti H, Schrope J, Venturelli OS, Beebe DJ. Under-Oil Autonomously Regulated Oxygen Microenvironments: A Goldilocks Principle-Based Approach for Microscale Cell Culture. Adv Sci (Weinh). 2022 04; 9(10):e2104510. View in PubMed
    3. Park KY, Hefti HO, Liu P, Lugo-Cintrón KM, Kerr SC, Beebe DJ. Immune cell mediated cabozantinib resistance for patients with renal cell carcinoma. Integr Biol (Camb). 2021 12 30; 13(11):259-268. View in PubMed
    4. Schwartz PB, Krecko LK, Park KY, O'Rourke AP, Greenberg J, Jung S. Our thoughts: Improving general surgery resident preparedness for dedicated research time. Am J Surg. 2022 06; 223(6):1217-1219. View in PubMed
    5. Park KY., Eithun, B.L., Havlena J., Draper, J., Cartmill, R.S., Kim, M.K. and Kohler, J.E.. Driving Time to Trauma Centers for Children Living in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Medical Journal. 2021. View in PubMed
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