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Inje University Busan-Paik
Hospital first opened in 1979 with a capacity of
820 beds and operates 31 clinical department and
more than 30 specialized centers & special clinics.
Located in the south-west of Korea, as one of the
largest privately run hospitals, Busan-Paik Hospital
is playing a leading role in the Busan-Gyeongnam
area. In the fields of brain and cardiac diseases,
the advanced medical technology of the hospital
is first among other Korean university hospitals.
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From 1984 to the present
day the medical team of the thoracic & cardiovascular
department has performed about 3,000 open heart
surgeries. Headed by Dr. Kwang-Hyun Cho, the department
has successfully performed 4 heart transplant surgeries.
These surgeries represent the first of their kind
outside of the Seoul area in 1997.
Busan-Paik Hospital boasts the best members in Neurosurgery
led by Dr. Jae-Hong Shim. In 1975, his team performed
a cerebral aneurysm surgery using an operating microscope
and on January 8, 2000, he set the Korean record
of operating on 2000 cerebral aneurysms in the shortest
time.
The medical team of neurosurgery introduced the
up-to-date Gamma Knife in 1994 and has treated brain
tumors and cerebrovascular patients. Dr. Soon-Yong
Lee of the pediatry department is the godfather
of young leukemia patients. Busan-Paik Hospital
is designated as the hemophilia center in the Youngnam
province.
Equipped with the newest facilities and patient-friendly
medical professionals, Busan-Paik Hospital stands
in the center of high quality education, research
and health care service.
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