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Overview

Seongseop Sam Kim is affiliated with Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China and specializes in the field of medicine, with a significant focus on pulmonary and respiratory medicine, surgery, biomedical engineering, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, as well as cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their research spans multiple topics, including lung cancer diagnosis and treatment, mechanical circulatory support devices, lung cancer treatments and mutations, transplantation methods and outcomes, gastric cancer management and outcomes, surgical simulation and training, and advances in oncology and radiotherapy.

Kim's recent papers include the following publications:

  • "Lung transplantation for patients with severe COVID-19" (2020), published in Science Translational Medicine
  • "Bacterial Superinfection Pneumonia in Patients Mechanically Ventilated for COVID-19 Pneumonia" (2021), published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "Comparing Nasopharyngeal and BAL SARS-CoV-2 Assays in Respiratory Failure" (2020), published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • "Outcomes after extracorporeal membrane oxygenation support in COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients" (2021), published in Artificial Organs
  • "Indwelling Central Venous Catheters Drive Bloodstream Infection During Veno-venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Support" (2021), published in ASAIO Journal

Frequent co-authors in Kim's research include:

  • Ankit Bharat
  • Chitaru Kurihara
  • Kalvin Lung
  • David D. Odell
  • Rafael Garza-Castillon

The main venues where Kim has published work are:

  • The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
  • Journal of Thoracic Disease
  • American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
  • Science Translational Medicine
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Kim's extensive publication record includes 67 works primarily in medicine. Out of these, 24 are related to pulmonary and respiratory medicine, 14 to surgery, and 11 to biomedical engineering, among others. The combination of clinical and engineering disciplines highlights a multidisciplinary approach in their research.

Best Publications

  • The influence of push and pull factors at Korean national parks

    Samuel Seongseop Kim;Choong-Ki Lee;David B Klenosky

  • Residents' perceptions on impacts of the FIFA 2002 World Cup: the case of Seoul as a host city.

    Samuel Seongseop Kim;James F. Petrick

  • Change of images of South Korea among foreign tourists after the 2002 FIFA World Cup

    Samuel Seongseop Kim;Alastair M. Morrsion

  • An Integrative Model of Place Image: Exploring Relationships between Destination, Product, and Country Images

    Statia Elliot;Nicolas Papadopoulos;Samuel Seongseop Kim

  • Marketing implications arising from a comparative study of international pleasure tourist motivations and other travel-related characteristics of visitors to Korea

    Samuel Seongseop Kim;Bruce Prideaux

  • Assessing the economic value of a world heritage site and willingness-to-pay determinants: A case of Changdeok Palace

    Samuel Seongseop Kim;Kevin K.F. Wong;Min Cho

  • Preference and Positioning Analyses of Overseas Destinations by Mainland Chinese Outbound Pleasure Tourists

    Samuel Seongseop Kim;Yingzhi Guo;Jerome Agrusa

  • Conceptualizing Destination Brand Equity Dimensions from a Consumer-Based Brand Equity Perspective

    Holly Hyunjung Im;Samuel Seongseop Kim;Statia Elliot;Heejoo Han

  • China, the United Nations, and world order

    Samuel S. Kim

  • Convention industry in South Korea: an economic impact analysis.

    Samuel Seongseop Kim;Kaye Chon;Kyu Yoop Chung

  • China's quest for national identity

    Lowell Dittmer;Samuel S. Kim

  • The effects of SARS on the Korean hotel industry and measures to overcome the crisis: A case study of six Korean five-star hotels

    Samuel Seongseop Kim;Hejin Chun;Heesung Lee

  • Effect of celebrity endorsement on tourists' perception of corporate image, corporate credibility and corporate loyalty

    Samuel Seongseop Kim;Jinsoo Lee;Bruce Prideaux

  • Development Characteristics and Implications of Mainland Chinese Outbound Tourism

    Yingzhi Guo;Samuel Seongseop Kim;Dallen J. Timothy

  • The positioning of overseas honeymoon destinations

    Samuel Seongseop Kim;Jerome Agrusa

  • The Impact of Occupational Stress on Employee's Turnover Intention in the Luxury Hotel Segment

    Jinsoo Hwang;Junghoon Jay Lee;Seulgi Park;Hosung Chang

  • A comparison of results of three statistical methods to understand the determinants of festival participants' expenditures.

    Samuel Seongseop Kim;Bruce Prideaux;Kaye Chon

  • Korea's Globalization

    Samuel S. Kim

  • Understanding Japanese tourists’ shopping preferences using the Decision Tree Analysis method

    Samuel Seongseop Kim;Dallen J. Timothy;Jinsoo Hwang

  • The Two Koreas and the Great Powers

    Samuel S. Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Dallen J. Timothy
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