Seong-Gi Kim, Ph.D.



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Professional
Activities		 Invited Talks Research Supports Personal Life

 
 

EDUCATION
 

Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, August 1988 Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130 B.S. in Applied Chemistry (major), Mechanical Engineering (minor), 1980 Kyungpook National University, Korea
    PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
  2001-present  Professor of Radiology at the University of Minnesota
1998-2001 Associate Professor of Radiology, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 1994-1998 Assistant Professor of Radiology, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 1991-1994 Assistant Professor (non-tenure tract)/Research Associate, Center for Magnetic Resonance Research at University of Minnesota, MN 1989-1991 Post-doctoral Research Associate under Professor B.R. Reid at University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1988-1989 Post-doctoral Research Associate under Professor J.J.H. Ackerman at  Washington University, St. Louis, MO 1984-1988 Research Assistant under Professor J.J.H. Ackerman at Washington University, St. Louis, MO
 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
 

International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Society for Neuroscience
 

AWARDS
 

University Fellowship at Washington University, 1987-1988 1999 NAMI Olmsted County Investigator 1999-2000
Picchione Visiting Scholar of the Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation, 2001
McKnight Neuroscience Technological Innovation Award, 2001-2002

INVITED TALKS IN MEETINGS

16th International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, (Veldohoven, Netherlands), Plenary Lecture, August 18, 1994

The Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, John Hopkins University, Plasticity and Recovery of the Nervous System, Feb. 17, 1995.

Korean Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences Symposium (Seoul, Korea), Nov. 4, 1995, Plenary Lecture,

Kyung-Pook National University (Taegu, Korea), Commemorative symposium for 50th Anniversary, July 29, 1996, "Visualization of human mind on the brain"

9th Asian Oceanian Congress of Neurology (Seoul, Korea), Sep. 3, 1996, "Cortical Activation using Functional MRI"

Biomedical Engineering Research Center in Korea, Commemorative symposium for 3rd Anniversary, Sep 6, 1996, "Visualization of Human Brain Function"

Minnesota Workshop on Principles and Applications of High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy, Univ. of Minn., Faculty, March 7, 1997.

Minnesota Workshop on Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Brain Function, Univ. of Minn. Faculty, March 8, 1997.

Hands on Training in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Univ. of Minn., Faculty, March 10, 1997.

McDonnell-Pew Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Oxford, U.K., June 28, 1997 "Different Roles of Motor Cortical Areas during Motor Preparation and Execution"

Perfusion Imaging Workshop, National Institutes of Health, Oct. 20, 1997, "FAIR Perfusion Imaging"

Shonan Workshop 98, Japan, Organized by Drs. Kanno, Tanaka and Iijima, March 7, 1998, "Vascular and Metabolic Basis of fMRI"

Minnesota Workshop on Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Brain Function, Univ. of Minn. Faculty, Oct. 17-18, 1999.

Hands on Training in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Univ. of Minn., Organizer & Faculty, Oct. 14-15, 1999.

Human Brain Mapping Courses, San Antonio, June 12, 2000.

Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, Univ. of Minnesota, Mini symposium: Brain Imaging, Oct 13, 2000.

BOLD workshop: Understanding the BOLD Phenomena and its Applications,  Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Organizer & Faculty, Oct 26-28, 2000.

The 3rd Annual Meeting of the Korean Society for Brain and Neural Science, "Neural Correlate of fMRI",  Dec. 1, 2000, Seoul, Korea.
 

  DEPARTMENT SEMINARS

Univ. of Minnesota, Dept. of Physiology, Oct. 1993.

Henry Ford Hospital, Dept. of Neurology, Detroit, March, 1994.

New York University, Dept. of Radiology, New York, June, 1994.

University of Rochester, Radiology Department Seminar, Oct. 21, 1996

Georgetown University, Department Seminar, Mar. 21, 1997

University of London, Institute of Neurology, London, U.K., June 30, 1997

University of Minnesota, Biomedical Engineering, Nov. 22, 1997

Electotechnical Laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan, March 2, 1998

Akita Research Institute of Brain and Blood Vessels, Akita, Japan, March 4, 1998

RIKEN Institute, Japan, March 9, 1998

Northwestern University, Physiology, July 1, 1998

Institute for Biodiagnostics, National Research Council, Canada, March 26, 1999

Carnegie Mellon University, Biological Sciences, April 22, 1999

California Institute of Technology, Biology Division, June 8, 1999

Northwestern University, Radiology, August 26, 1999

University of Minnesota, Neuroscience, September 8, 1999

University of Minnesota, Biophysics, September 9, 1999

Yale University, NISTP, Dec. 10, 1999

Medical College of Wisconsin, Biophysics, April 14, 2000.

RIKEN, BSI, Japan, June 26, 2000

Kyungpook National University Medical School, July 3, 2000

Yonsei University, Radiology, July 6, 2000

Asan Medical Center, Radiology and Neurology, July 7, 2000

University of Pittsburgh, Neurobiology, Oct. 3, 2000

Medical College of Wisconsin, Biophysics, Dec. 13, 2000

Phamacia Corporation, Jan. 12, 2001

Dalhousie University, Jan 15-19, 2001


GRANT SUPPORT

Past
 NIH (A. Georgopuolos)     Co-Investigator,  ``Functional MRI of Cognitive Processes",   5/1/94 - 4/30/97
 NIH (J. Ashe)                    Co-P.I., ``Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Human Motor Cortex'',  4/1/95 -3/31/98
 Whitaker Foundation          P.I.,     ``Development of Perfusion-based Functional MRI Techniques'',  4/1/96 - 3/31/99
 Whitaker Foundation          P.I.  “Development of CBF-based fMRI”,  4/1/99-3/31/00
 Minnesota Medical Foundation     P.I.    “Mapping orientation column in the visual cortex using MRI”,  2/1/99-12/31/99
 NIH (RO3)     P.I., “Mapping Columnar Organization of Visual Cortex using MRI”,  12/1/99-11/30/00
 NSF (Dassonville)      Co-P.I.,   "Functional MRI Investigations of Visual Perception", 10/1/98-9/30/01
 NARSAD    P.I., “Coupling between CBF and Oxygen Consumption during Neural Activity”,  9/15/99-9/14/01
 

Current
 NIH (RO1)        P.I.,     “Physiological Basis of Functional MRI Signals”, 5/15/99 - 3/31/04
 NIH (RO1)        P.I.,     “Functional MRI at Columnar Resolution”,         12/1/00 - 11/30/05
 NIH (PPG; D.A. Rottenberg)        "Spatial and Temporal Pattern in Functional Neuroimaging''
           P.I. of Project 1,   "Temporal Resolution of fMRI''      9/30/96 - 6/30/06
 NIH (PPG; K. Ugurbil)    "NMR Imaging and Localized Spectroscopy at High Magnetic Fields”
           P.I. of Core 2,  "Quantitative Perfusion Imaging’’       6/1/98  -  5/31/03
 McKnight Neuroscience Foundation,  PI, "Development of In Vivo Perfusion-based Columnar-Resolution Functional MRI", 8/1/01-7/31/03
 NIH (RO1; A. Georgopoulos)      Co-Inv.,  ``Functional MRI of Cognitive Processes'', 7/1/98 - 6/30/03
 NIH (R01; Gruetter)     Co-Inv ,  “Dynamic MRI and MRS Studies of Focal Neural Activation”, 3/1/00 – 2/28/03
 NIH (RO1; Ashe)        Co-PI,   “Learning in the Human Motor Cortex”, 4/1/00 – 3/31/05
 NIH (RO1; D-S Kim)       Co-PI,   “Functional MRI of layer-specific cortical maps”, 8/1/00 – 7/31/05
 Whitaker Foundation (D-S Kim)   Co-PI,    “Electrophysiological correlate of ultra-high resolution functional MRI”, 9/1/00 – 8/31/03
 


PERSONAL LIFE/FAMILY

I married with former college-mate Hyunja Kim in 1983. We have two smart, handsome, and good boys.  Both boys were born in St. Louis when I was at Washington University as a graduate student   Hyunja came to the United States in 1981 as a graduate student in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Illinois in Chicago when I served in the Korean Army.  I came to the United States in late 1983.
 
 
Here is a picture of my two boys and me taken during the summer of 2000.   The first person from the left is me, the boy with a finger in front of his face is Jongjin (born in 1987), and the next boy seated is John (born in 1985).


 
 

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