Department of Psychiatry, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Asan Medical Center, Korea

Dr. Seockhoon Chung, is a psychiatrist who is interested in sleep medicine and psycho-oncology. Among various research fields in sleep medicine, he is specially interested in pediatric sleep and sleep & cancer. He also observed the association between sleeping pills administration time and patients’ satisfaction, and proposed a new instruction for sleeping pills administration, “taking sleeping pills 7 hours before your usual waking-up time”. He found that patients’ satisfaction with their sleeping pills can be increased after following the new instruction. Now he is running the specialized sleep clinic for cancer patients in Asan Medical Center. He is trying developing the Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for insomnia for cancer patients.