Prof. Shim

Tribute to Professor Young-Soo Shim, MD, PhD

Professor Emeritus Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Professor Young-Soo Shim graduated from the College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea in 1969. After three years of military service in the Republic of Korea Navy, he moved to the United States for medical training. After medical internship and residency, he finished a fellowship in pulmonary medicine in the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York in 1978. Then he worked as a director of the respiratory therapy department in Jersey City Medical Center until 1980.

In 1980, he returned to Republic of Korea, and worked as a professor in Seoul National University Hospital for 30 years until 2010 when he retired at the university. For more than 10 years, he chaired the university's Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, enhancing basic science research using molecular research techniques and improving the care of critically ill patients. As the first U.S. board-certified pulmonary specialist in Korea, he introduced his colleagues to the American postgraduate training system.

During his career in Seoul National University Hospital, he introduced modern sleep medicine into Korea by establishing a sleep laboratory after a fellowship in Sleep Medicine in University of California at Irvine, USA in 1988. Because he was interested in education in pulmonary medicine, he organized the education programme in Seoul National University Hospital for young pulmonologists in Korea.

As a researcher, Professor Shim published more than 300 original and review articles. As a distinguished clinician scientist, he wrote review articles on paragonimiasis (Semin Resp Med 1991;12:35-45), endobronchial tuberculosis (Respirology 1996;1:95-106), and COPD and alpha1 antitrypsin deficiency (Respirology 2001;6:S9-S11). His main research area was COPD (J Korean Med Sci 2007;22:839-845, Respirology 2009;14:90-97) and genetics of pulmonary diseases. He published several articles on the genetics of COPD (Lung 2002;180:119-125, Respirology 2005;10:223-228)), tuberculosis (Human Immunology 2005;66:1074-1081), bronchiectasis (J Korean Med Sci 2007;22:667-671, Respirology 2007;12:49-53) and diffuse panbronchiolitis (Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1999;159:526-529).

Professor Shim has contributed substantially to the medical societies in Korea and the Asia-Pacific region. He served as Secretary General and President of the KATRD (The Korea Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease). When he was the President of KATRD, he revolutionized the structure and function of the society to its present shape. In 1992, he held the 12th APCDC (Asia-Pacific Congress on Diseases of the Chest) in Seoul, Republic of Korea, successfully as the Secretary General. Professor Shim was also a core member of the APSR Executive Committee for several decades and served as its president in 2008-2010. Mr Yasutomi Yamanaka, APSR Executive Manager, remembers that Professor Shim's management skill was very sophisticated and impressive to him. In 2009, as the President of APSR, he held the 14th Congress of the APSR successfully in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Professor Shim's colleagues remember him as the smart and enthusiastic clinician scientist, and a very kind and warm-hearted doctor to his patients.

Prof. Kim

Prepared by
Young Whan Kim, MD, PhD
Professor
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Seoul National University Hospital
Seoul, Republic of Korea

Prof. Kim was a mentee and then a colleague of Prof. Shim at Seoul National University Hospital for 30 years. Prof. Kim is currently a member of APSR Strategic Planning Committee and chair of APSR Research Committee.

July 2019

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The Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) warns that short-term exposure to air pollution in early life may influence future lung growth and development

An article published in Respirology found a modest association between infant exposure to elevated particulate matter (PM_2.5) during a six-week coal mine fire and reduced respiratory system reactance, measured three years after the fire. [1].

Short-term health impacts associated with exposure to fine PM have been well characterised. There is consistent evidence associating short-term smoke exposure with increased physician visits, emergency department presentations and hospitalisations for respiratory diseases. However, the long-term health risks from relatively short, that is days to weeks in duration, air pollution episodes have not been characterised, especially in children.

The authors studied children who were living near a coal mine in Victoria, Australia, during a mine fire episode lasting 45 days in Feb 2014.

"This research was driven by concern from members of the affected communities that the fire and severe smoke episodes could have increased the risk of health problems in the longer term. There is currently scant evidence about this, one way or the other – we wanted to address this gap," says article author Professor Fay Johnston, Head of Environmental Health Research Group, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania. [2].

They selected 105 children under 2 years old, estimating their personal exposure to PM2.5 generated by the mine fire, and they measured their lung function 3 years after the fire to identify any long-term adverse effect on their lung development.

"This study is potentially important for public health because it aims to clarify if even short-term exposure to fine PM may cause any long-term impact on the lung growth of children, who might be more vulnerable because of their fast developing lungs," said Sara De Matteis, MD, MPH, PhD, Adjunct Professor at Humanitas University, Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London, and member of FIRS Environmental Committee. [3].

Infants and young children are more susceptible to the respiratory impacts of air pollution exposure due to their less developed airways and immune system, and faster breathing rates compared with adults. The first two years of life is a critical window for lung growth.

The study found that infant exposure to coal mine fire emissions could be associated with long-term impairment of lung reactance.

Dr De Matteis said "The findings of this study are of potential clinical importance in children most severely exposed to PM, or those with underlying lung conditions, such as asthma. We need further larger studies aimed to elucidate the long-term effects of air pollution on children's lung function to implement focused preventive strategies and so avoid the associated future public burden of respiratory diseases."

Professor Fay Johnston concludes "All efforts to improve air quality and protect sensitive groups, including the very young, from episodic air pollution will have important public health benefits. However, our results also demonstrated the larger and more serious adverse impacts from exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke and once again confirmed the importance of supporting parents, prospective parents, and other adults who have regular contact with children not to smoke."

Notes:

[1] The paper can be viewed at: apsresp.org/publications/respirology/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/resp.13617

[2] Associate Professor Fay Johnston heads the Environmental Health group, in the Public Health and Primary Care and Cardiorespiratory research themes of the Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania. She is a medical graduate with specialist qualifications in public health and general practice and a PhD in environmental epidemiology.

[3] Dr Sara De Matteis is Occupational and Environmental Health Physician and epidemiologist whose research centers on the effect of the environment and genetics on health, especially with regard to occupational lung diseases ranging from asthma to lung cancer.

About the Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS)

The Forum of International Respiratory Societies (FIRS) is an organisation composed of the world's leading international respiratory societies working together to improve lung health globally: American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST), American Thoracic Society (ATS), Asian Pacific Society of Respirology (APSR), Associatión Latino Americana De Thórax (ALAT), European Respiratory Society (ERS), International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Pan African Thoracic Society (PATS), Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), and the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD). The goal of FIRS is to unify and enhance efforts to improve lung health through the combined work of its more than 70,000 members globally.

The goal of FIRS is to unify and enhance efforts to improve lung health through the combined work of its more than 70,000 members globally.

For more information about FIRS please contact Lisa Roscoe lisa.roscoe@firsnet.org

Respirology is a journal of international standing, publishing peer-reviewed articles of scientific excellence in clinical and clinically-relevant experimental respiratory biology and disease. Fields of research include immunology, intensive and critical care, epidemiology, cell and molecular biology, pathology, pharmacology, physiology, paediatric respiratory medicine, clinical trials, interventional pulmonology and thoracic surgery.

Hui Juan Dorothy Cheong

(National University of Singapore)

Presented: Anti-Remodelling and Anti-Airway Hyperresponsiveness Properties of Anti-Malarial Drug, Artesunate, in a House Dust Mites-Induced Chronic Mouse Model of Asthma (See post-session report)

Crestita Gorme

(Philippine Heart Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Section of Pediatric Pulmonology)

Presented: "Utility of Fractional Exhaled Nitric Oxide (FeNO) Levels in DifferentiatingUpper Respiratory Tract Infection and Bronchial Asthma from Healthy Normal School Children" (See post-session report)

Edward Harris

(Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia)

Presented: "Malignant and non-malignant findings from 5 years of Low dose CT scans screening for lung cancer in the Western Australian Asbestos Review Programme" (See post-session report)

Yet-Khor Hong

(Austin Health / Alfred Health / University of Melbourne, Australia)

Presented: "A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial of Ambulatory Oxygen versus Air via Portable Concentrator in Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Disease" (See post-session report)

Youlim Kim

(Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital, Republic of Korea)

Presented: "Impact of bronchiectasis on clinical outcome and medical utilization in COPD patients" (See post-session report)

Yasushi Murakami

(Department of Respiratory Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan)

Presented: "The prognostic role of blood lymphocytopenia in patients with postoperative pneumonia" (See post-session report)

Sheng-Wei Pan

(Taipei Veterans General Hospital)

Presented: "The risk of tuberculosis and other infections in diabetic patients using statins versus nonstatin lipid-lowering agents" (See post-session report)

Clarice Tang

(Western Sydney University, Australia)

Presented: "Does an immediate commencement of pulmonary rehabilitation following hospitalisation for an exacerbation of COPD positively impact attendance and completion rates: A pilot randomised controlled trial" (See post-session report)

Hiroki Tashiro

(Division of Hematology, Respiratory Medicine and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University)

Presented: "Sex differences in the effect of dietary fibre on ozone-induced airway hyperresponsiveness: role of the microbiome" (See post-session report)

Miranda Ween

(Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia)

Presented: "What's Your Flavour? Effects of E-cigarette Coil Temperature on Flavour Dependent Reductions of Phagocytosis of Bacteria and Apoptotic Airway Cells" (See post-session report)

Jung-Ki Yoon

(Seoul National University Hospital, Republic of Korea)

Presented: "Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of nontuberculosis mycobacterium (NTM) from co-habiting patients with NTM pulmonary disease (NTM-PD) to track the source of infection (See post-session report)