Conference Speakers
Cultural Speakers
Cultural practices, beliefs, and norms play a very important role not only in delivering health care to clients and patients, but also in how that health care is received and what outcomes are possible. Diversity within those beliefs and practices, and as a result of available resources or social economic/demographic circumstances, must be fully understood in order for health care professionals to provide the best care possible no matter where they are in the world, or what culture they are practicing within.
At GOLD Perinatal Care, we understand the importance of Culture and Diversity in health care, and we are working hard to bring you speakers and presentations from around the world that will help you understand the patients and clients you are working with. Discovering how health care is provided and received in other countries and cultures around the world can have a positive impact on our own professional practice. Given that culture is defined by much more than political borders, GOLD Perinatal Care invites speakers to share their knowledge and expertise about perinatal health care from a geographically-based focus or a people-group focus from within a particular set of beliefs, lifestyle or minority. This year, our Culture and Diversity speakers will be presenting on:


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1989-1993 Resident, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
1998-2000 Clinical Fellow, General Thoracic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
1998- Professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
2012-2020 Chairman, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea
2019- Chairman, Korean Association for Lung Cancer (KALC)
His Department of Pulmonary and Respiratory Critical Care Medicine focuses on the diagnosis and therapy of respiratory tract diseases such as COPD, lung emphysema, cystic fibrosis, fibrosing alveolitis, and pulmonary hypertension; on non-invasive ventilatory support for patients with respiratory deficiency or failure; on sleep related respiratory disorders. An outstanding expertise is provided in all fields of bronchoscopy, taking a lead position in the development of devices for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
His research interest is COPD, Lung cancer, interstitial lung diseases and Interventional Bronchoscopy. Felix Herth is one of the European Health Leaders working closely with the European Heath commission.