Director,
National Institute of Infectious Disease
Jang, Hee-chang.

Director,
National Institute of Infectious Disease
Jang, Hee-chang

Profile

• Education
  • Seoul National University College of Medicine(Department of Medicine)
  • Postdoc. fellowship, Department of Medicine Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital(division of infection diseases), USA
• Career
  • Resident, Fellow, Seoul National University Hospital
  • International Cooperation Doctor, Korea International Cooperation Agency(KOICA) (Bangladesh)
  • Committee member, the National Examination for Medical Practitioners
  • Vaccination committee, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(KCDC)
  • Professor, Chonnam National University School of Medicine (Infectious Diseases)
  • Chairman, the Institutional Review Board(IRB), KDCA

Major Research Field

• Antibiotic resistance
• Antibiotic therapy
• Emerging infectious diseases
• Vaccines

Performance

• Salvage treatment for persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: efficacy of linezolid with or without carbapenem. Clin Infect Dis. 2009 Aug 1;49(3):395-401.
• A randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of CJ-50300, a newly developed cell culture-derived smallpox vaccine, in healthy volunteers. Vaccine. 2010 Aug 16;28(36):5845-9.
• Active surveillance for carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a medical intensive care unit: Can it predict and reduce subsequent infections and the use of colistin? Am J Infect Control. 2017 Jun 1;45(6):667-672. 3 other cases

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