Hee Jeong Yoo is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and a Professor of Psychiatry at Seoul National University College of Medicine and Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. She leads a translational research team funded by the National Research Foundation, focusing on elucidating the genetic mechanisms of autism. She is the president of the Korean Association for Persons with Autism, a distinguished, multidisciplinary academic association on autism. She devotes herself as one of the four Editors-in-Chief of the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) e-Textbook and is a member of the Education and Publication Committee of the WPA