Professor Young-Suk Lim currently serves as the Dean of the University of Ulsan College of Medicine and is a Professor in the Department of Gastroenterology, Asan Medical Center, South Korea. Prof. Lim is the President Elect of the Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL) for the term spanning December 2025 to November 2027.
He served as the Director of the Clinical Trial Center at Asan Medical Center from April 2015 to June 2019.
Prof. Lim completed his medical degree at Seoul National University College of Medicine in 1992 and obtained his PhD from the same institution in 2002. He completed the Clinical Research Training Program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, in 2008.
He received the First Leading Research Achievement Award from the Korean Association for the Study of the Liver (KASL) in 2023. Prof. Lim has been commended by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Korean Government on three occasions (2017, 2020, and 2022). In 2018, he was named Professor of the Year at the University of Ulsan and was also the recipient of the Academic Achievement Award from the Alumni Association of Internal Medicine at Seoul National University Hospital.
Prof. Lim’s primary research interests lie in hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma. His work has been published in the world’s esteemed medical journals, including Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, JAMA Oncology, Gastroenterology, Journal of Hepatology, Gut, and Hepatology.
