Professor Kim got Doctor of Dental Surgery, specialty of Public Health Dentistry and PhD for epidemiology from Seoul National University School of Dentistry. He worked as a visiting scientist in the Department of Oral health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1998-1999 and 2006-2007, and in the Depart of Periodontology, UNC in 2000. Now, he is a tenure-track professor in the Department of Preventive and Social dentistry, SNU SOD. He serviced as vice-dean during 2010-2011 and the Chairman of the Department of Preventive and Social Dentistry during 2012-2013. He has served for the Korean Academy of Preventive Dentistry as the president during 2014-2016. He is an associate editor of the Korean Journal of Clinical Preventive Dentistry (KSCI) and was a board member of the Journal of Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology (SCI). He has published and presented more than 250 topics, papers and books. He is also a principal investigator on the research with $3 million by Korean Government, development of Rapid-Test-Kit for periodontitis using proteomics during 2017-2021.
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Salivary Point-of-care Test (POCT) for periodontitis: from proteomics to dental practice
Oral and systemic chronic diseases, which are prevalent, have common risk factors; while they have not early diagnostic tool. The symptom related diagnosis for oral and systemic chronic diseases has been a great burden in prognosis, economy and well-being. When we can screen oral and systemic chronic diseases in advance of symptom, it will be helpful to human life. Point-of- care test (POCT) will guide the best way for early diagnosis. Blood has been considered as the choice of sample for early screening of diseases. But getting blood sample is not easy because of invasiveness. Getting saliva is not invasive and easy. Saliva is a bodily fluid transuded from gingival crevice fluid and blood, and so contains many proteins. Proteins in saliva, which is the end product of the interaction between inflammation and immune response, have been studied as markers for oral and systemic chronic diseases especially periodontal diseases. Mass spectrometric analysis is one of best state-of-art tool to investigate significant biomarker proteins. Salivary POCT using significant proteins will be the rapid-test–kit for screening periodontitis in advance of traditional symptom including alveolar bone loss and pain at home and in clinics. Salivary POC could be useful for early screening of oral and systemic diseases, which improve human well-being. For your understanding, our results and process of salivary POCT is addressed as an example of this approach “from salivary proteomics science to practice”.