Moon J. Pak, M.D., Ph.D. 
Dr. Moon J. Pak, Chairman of Steering Committee of the Korean -American League (KAL), is a physician specialized in internal medicine, with a clinical appointment as Clinical Professor of Health Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. His previous academic experience includes professor at Oakland University from 1968 to 1982, during which time he was an Associate Provost in charge of the Center for Health Sciences. He was also Research Associate and Postdoctoral Fellow in Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois from 1965 to 1968. Dr. Pak was chairman of Board of Directors of the Christian Association for Medical Mission (CAMM http://www.camm.net/index3.html) from 1993 to 1995 and served as president from 1995 to 1997. While he was serving the CAMM, he led a number of medical mission trips to Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea and helped establish the Third People’s Hospital of Pyongyang, a 500-bed hospital equipped with many modern western medical technology. Some of Dr. Pak’s experiences as medical educator includes director of Medical Review Program of Oakland University (1975-82); director of Comprehensive Medical Review Program for Foreign Medical Graduates (1974-1976); consultant to Postgraduate Medical Education Community Health Center (1975-78); president of Hypertension Coordinating and Planning Council of Southeast Michigan (1976-1978). He served as president of Korean-American Medical Association of Michigan (1994-95) and president of Severance Alumni Association of America (1996-97). All his medical trainings had been supported by scholarships, such as Yonsei University Medical Student Merit Scholarship (1956-1960) and the United States Public Health Service Scholarship (1960-1965). He has published widely in medical publications, and conducted several researche projects supported by grants, and was invited speaker of International Symposium of Fast Muscle (Birmingham, England, 1971) and Gordon Research Conference on Myocardial Contractility (1968, 1970, 1972, 1974). He served as president of the Michigan Chamber of Symphony Orchestra (1998-99) and invited member of U.S. Republican Senate Inner-Circle since 1999. U.S. Republican Senate awarded him Medal of Freedom in 1999. He is listed in the Who’s Who In North America. Dr. Pak was born July 30, 1933 in Seoul, Korea. He attended Doksu Elementary School and Seoul Middle/High School in Seoul. He received his B.M.S. (Premedicine) and M.D. (1960) degrees from College of Medicine, Yonsei University and his Ph.D. in Cardiovascular Physiology from School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1965. Dr. Pak is married and has a daughter who is a doctor of Public Health as well as a physician, and two sons, a practicing attorney in San Francisco and an artist living in Chicago, Illinois. Click here for his Curriculum Vitae?
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