Ji-Young Joo received her Doctor of Phylosophy in Periodontics from the Pusan National University in 2016. She worked as Associate Professor at Pusan National Univeristy Dental Hospital (2014–present) . She received her board of periodontitis license from the Korean government in 2009. She is a director of department of periodontology at Pusan National University Dental Hospital (2019-present). She is a faculty member of the Korena Academy of Periodontology. She received the young researcher award from the Korean Academy of Periodontology (2017). She received the best paper award from the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (2019). Her research topics mainly include: periodontitis, the periodontal-systemic relationship, and peri-implantitis