Specialty	Internal Medicine
Subspecialty	Transplantation
Clinical Interests	Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
	Liver Transplant
	Liver Cancer
	Nutrition
	Liver Disease
Languages	English
	Korean
Gender	Male
Education and Training	MD, S.U.N.Y., Buffalo
	Internship, Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
	Fellowship, Transplant Hepatology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
	Fellowship, Gastroenterology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Dr. Park is currently an assistant professor of medicine in the division of Liver diseases of Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

He earned a B.A. from the University of Rochester, graduating with magna cum laude. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Golden Keys National Honor Society. He also received the De Kiewiet research award and the Take Five scholarship award from the University of Rochester. He earned a doctor in medicine from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

During medical school, he was a recipient of American Diabetes Association Research Fellowship. Dr. Park did his internship and residency training in internal medicine at New York University School of Medicine. He was awarded the New York State Empire Clinical Research Scholarship, and pursued one year of training in clinical hepatology and research under the mentorship of Dr. Douglas T. Dieterich at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

He completed fellowship training in gastroenterology and clinical nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. During his transplant hepatology fellowship training at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, Dr. Park served as a chief hepatology fellow.

 

Dr. Park is a UNOS-certified Liver Transplant physician and is board certified in internal medicine, gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition. He is board eligible in transplant hepatology.

 

Dr. Park is an investigator for many ongoing clinical trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of new treatments for liver cancer and viral hepatitis.

Dr. Park is a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, the American Gastroenterology Association, and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

 

Born in Korea, Dr. Park speaks Korean fluently.

 

Education and Training	MD, S.U.N.Y., Buffalo
	Internship, Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine
	Fellowship, Transplant Hepatology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
	Fellowship, Gastroenterology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Board Certification	Internal Medicine

Specialty	Internal Medicine
Subspecialty	Transplantation
Clinical Interests	Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
	Liver Transplant
	Liver Cancer
	Nutrition
	Liver Disease
Languages	English
	Korean
Board Certification	Internal Medicine

Saraf N, Cengiz C, Park JS, Dieterich DT. HIV and Liver Diseases. In: HIV and Liver <br>Schiff's Diseases of the Liver<br>HIV and Liver Diseases.

Carrriero D, Fabrizi F, Uriel AJ, Park J, Martin P, Dieterich DT. Treatment of dialysis patients with chronic hepatitis C using pegylated intereron and low-dose ribavirin. Int J Artif Organs 2008 Apr; 31(4): 295-302.

Bhat YM, Papchristou GI, Park JS, Lamb J, Slivka A, Whitcomb DC. Functional Polymorphisms of the GSST-1 Gene Do Not Predict the Severity of Acute Pancreatitis in the United States. Pancreatology 2007; 7: 180-186.

Park JS, Schoen RE. Iadequate Flexible Screening Sigmoidoscopy is Associated with Increased Resk of Distal Colorectal Cancer. But, Is Colonoscopy the Solution. Evidence-based Gastroenterology 2006 March; 7(1): 17-18.

Park JS, Saraf N, Dieterich DT. HBV plus HCV plus HIV, HBV plus HIV [review]. Curr Gastroenterol Rep 2006 Feb; 8(1): 67-74.

Santos SA, Uriel AJ, Park JS, Lucas J, Carriero D, Jaffe D, Dieterich DT. Effect of switching to tenfovir with emtricitabine in patients with chronic hepatitis B failing to respond to an adefovir-containg regimen. Eur J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2006 Dec; 18(12): 1247-53.

Bini EJ, Park JS, Francois F. Use of flexible sigmoidoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer in HIV-infected patients 50 years of age and older. Arch Intern Med. 2006 August; 166(15): 1626-31.

Francois F, Park JS, Bini EJ. Colon pathology detected after a positive screening flexible sigmoidoscopy: a prospective study in ethnically diverse cohort. Am J Gastroenterol 2006 April; 101(4): 823-30.

Park JS, Akhtar R, Dieterich DT. Hepatitis C: Laest Diagnosis ad Treatment Guidelines. Consultant 2006 Apr; 4: 463-468.

Cenzig C, Park JS, Saraf N, Dieterich DT. HIV and liver diseases: recent clinical advances [review]. Clin Liver Dis 2005 Nov; 9(4): 647-66.