Ben Gerber, MD, MPH - Visiting Professor in South Korea

Ben Gerber, MD, MPH, is spending the fall semester at Hallym University in South Korea as a visiting professor, where he’ll teach graduate students electronic health record data analysis with R and help strengthen the Hallym-UMass Chan Medical School partnership.

He’ll also explore collaboration in remote patient monitoring, chronic disease management, health data infrastructure, and medical AI, while advising on Hallym’s Medical Artificial Intelligence Talent Development Program. His wife, Rebecca, is accompanying him and hopes to learn from Korean academic libraries and volunteer teaching English locally.

The visit builds on a partnership that began in 2023 and has since grown to include student exchanges, joint research, faculty collaboration, nursing exchanges, and an AI-focused memorandum of understanding.

Click here to read the UMass News article, September 23, 2026.

Rebecca Gerber, electronic resources librarian at Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Chan, and Ben Gerber, MD, MPH, professor of population & quantitative health sciences, are spending the fall in South Korea as part of an ongoing collaborative exchange program with Hallym University
Photo: Bryan Goodchild