Press Release

On July 8, Doosan Yonkang Foundation (Chairman Yong Hyun Park) held a ceremony at the Lotte Hotel Seoul to present the 2016 Doosan Yonkang Academic Award for best medical article. The winner of this year’s award was Sang-Hoon Oh, professor of the Emergency Medicine Division at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, who received 30 million won (about $25,800) and a plaque. The paper that won Oh the award was, “The prognostic value of continuous amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram applied immediately after return of spontaneous circulation in therapeutic hypothermia-treated cardiac arrest patients,” which was published in the Circulation Journal of the American Heart Association in September 2015. The study concluded for the first time in the world that analysis of the brainwaves of adult comatose survivors of cardiac arrest could help determine whether the patients’ recovery time could be accurately predicted through the continuous application of amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring. The Doosan Yonkang Academic Award for medical articles was established in 2006 to contribute to medical research in Korea and motivate young medical researchers. ▲Yonkang Foundation Chairman Yong Hyun Park (fourth from right) together with Sang-Hoon Oh, the award winner (fifth from right), and medical professionals, after presenting the 2016 Doosan Yonkang Academic Award in the best medical article category.