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Jae Il Shin, MD, PhD

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Jae Il Shin, M.D. Ph.D., is a Professor of Pediatrics at Yonsei University College of Medicine and Division Chief of Pediatric Nephrology, Severance Children’s Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. He is also a Professor of Medical Education at Yonsei University College of Medicine and Deputy Center Director of the Center for Medical Education Training and Professional Development in Yonsei-Donggok Medical Education Institute, where he has lead Evidence-Based Medicine. He was a visiting scholar at Emory University and conducted a meta-research on scientific rigor in stem cell field from 2018 to 2020. He joined as an affiliate in Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University in 2022 and also launched Severance Underwood Meta-research Center, Institute of Convergence Science, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea in 2023. His is interested in various kinds of meta-research topics including bias, reproducibility, spin, scientific retractions and misinterpretation of evidence in the medico-scientific field. He is a SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) Faculty Fellow, Institute for Global Engagement & Empowerment (IGEE), Yonsei University and he has actively been publishing Global Burden of Disease (GBD) papers as a senior collaborator in the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, Seattle. He joined as a Professor, Adjunct, Digestive Diseases, Yale University, School of Medicine since July, 2025 and he plans to collaboratively conduct research on various diseases including gastric cancer and several digestive diseases with the excellent professors of Yale University by applying various methodologies including meta-research. He was selected as distinguished faculty fellow (Lee Youn Jae fellow), Yonsei University College of Medicine and also 2024 Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) by Clarivate.

Last Updated on July 28, 2025.

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PhD
Yonsei University College of Medicine
MD
Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine

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2025

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