Professor Young-Hoon Kim is Professor of Psychiatry at School of Medicine and former Director of Paik Institute for Clinical Research, Inje University, Busan, Republic of Korea. He has been a major opinion leader in the field of neurobiology and psychopharmacology in Korea and the President of Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology (2005~2008). He graduated from Seoul National University in 1978 and received Ph.D. in Neurochemistry in 1992 from Inje University in Bu1san. He had research experiences in neuroscience at Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan (1990) and Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea (1996). His current major research interests are in the mechanisms of neuroprotective action of atypical antipsychotic drugs against toxic models such as serum deprivation and MPP+ toxicity and  the  role of AKT-GSK3 signaling pathway in the action of atypical antipsychotic drugs. Another research interest in clinical field is to investigate the effects of cholinergic and glutamatergic drugs for the improvement in cognition of patients with schizophrenia.

Chang Yoon Kim is a Professor of  Psychiatry , University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center in Seoul.  His major areas of research interest include clinical psychopharmacology, psychopathology and genetic aspects of  schizophrenia and mood disorder. He had also been responsible for  the  development of computerized patient record system of  Asan Medical Center
As a psychiatrist, he also emphasizes  psychological treatment as well as pharmacotherapy.   He is running a ‘schizophrenia and mood disorder’ and  ‘obsessive compulsive disorder’ outpatient clinic and ‘social cognition enhancement program  for schizophrenia’.
He received his M.D (1984) and Ph.D (1991) at the Seoul National University, College of Medicine and medical training at the Seoul National University Hospital where he received psychiatric specialty in 1988.  He also had bench work training of molecular neurobiology at the ‘Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology’ , Cornell University  in  White Plains, New York in 1994.   He has been working as a staff psychiatrist in Asan Medical Center since 1989 and has served as a Chief  in Psychiatry from 2000 to Aug. 2006.   He is one of the leading members of ‘Korean Society of Psychopharmacology’.

Professor Min graduated from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea with an M.D. degree in 1968, and he received a Ph.D from the same University in 1975. He has received training in psychiatry at Yonsei Medical Center and gone on study visits to Copenhagen University, Tuebingen University, and Illinois State University. In 1976, he became a professor of psychiatry at Yonsei University, and he served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry in 1994-2000, retiring as professor emeritus in 2009. Throughout the years he had held other positions of responsibility, such as president and chairman of the KCNP (1997-1999), president of the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association (1999-2001) and a lifetime member of the National Academy of Medicine of Korea. Since 2009, he has served as superintendent of Seoul Metropolitan Eunpyeong Hospital. He has had numerous articles and books published in the field of clinical psychopharmacology and in regard to hwa-byung, the culture-related anger syndrome of Korea, and he has edited a Korean textbook of psychiatry.

Dr Min-Soo LEE is Professor and Director of the Department of Psychiatry at the Korea University, South Korea. He was educated and gained clinical and research experience in psychiatry at the College of Medicine of the Korea University, Psychiatric Department of Pohang Armed Forces General Hospital of Korean Navy, Neuropsychiatric Department of Capital Armed Forces General Hospital of Korean Navy, and Millhauser Laboratories at the Neuropsychiatric Department of New York University School of Medicine, USA. At present, Dr LEE serves as Concurrent Professor of Institute of Bio-Technology at Korea University, Director of Depression Center at Korea University Medical Center, Director of Pharmacogenomic Research Center for Psychotropic Drugs at Korea University, International Advisory Board of “Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences”, Director of Institute of Human Behavior and Genes at Korea University, and Associate Secretary-Treasurer of World Federation of Society of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP). He is the elected president of Korean NeuroPsychiatricAssocationand Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists. Dr LEE is interested in the genetic backgrounds of psychiatric disorders especially depression, and the genetic variations affecting on the responsiveness to psychotropic drugs. He has striven to develop biomarkers for predicting individual responses to antidepressant treatment. To do these, he has conducted pharmacogenetic and clinical studies on major psychiatric disorders in Korea and has published about250 research reports and reviews.

My research is focused on development and application of computer software for statistical genetics applications including software for joint linkage and linkage disequilibrium analysis on arbitrarily large pedigrees (Pseudomarker) and software for assisting in the study design process for linkage and linkage disequilibrium analysis (Detectance) - in collaboration with researchers at the University of Helsinki; and software for simulating the evolution of phenogenetic relationships on a genome-wide scale under various models of mutation, selection, and population demographics (ForSim) in collaboration with researchers at Penn State University.
Additionally I am involved in study design and data analysis from numerous field studies in Kazakhstan, Finland, Korea, Venezuela, Mongolia, Russia, China, and Sweden among others. In furtherance of the latter applied aims, I organize and teach workshops on "Logical Reasoning in Human Genetics" in various places throughout the developing world, where the potential human genetic resources far surpass what we could ever hope to accomplish in cosmopolitan western societies like our own."

Dr. Kim is an associate professor of the Department of Psychiatry, Seoul National University College of Medicine and the Department of Neuropsychiatry and Geriatric Medicine Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. His major field of practice and research is cognitive disorders and late life depression. He is currently leading the Korean Longitudinal Study on Health and Aging (KLoSHA), a multidisciplinary longitudinal community-based cohort study, and the Korean Longitudinal Study on Cognitive Aging and Dementia (KLOSCAD), a nationwide multicenter community-based cohort study.
He published more than 120 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals including Biological Psychiatry, Neurology, and Stroke. He also wrote 9 books on dementia and geriatric psychiatry.
He is serving as vice president of the Korean Geriatric Psychoneuropharmacology (KCGP) and board member of the National Council for Dementia Management, the Korean Neuropsychiatric Association (KNPA), Korean Association of Geriatric Psychiatry and Korean Association of Dementia (KAD).