I migliori chirurghi dei trapianti in Corea del Sud — TOP 7

Professor Kim Ki-bong specializes in CABG, valve surgery, atrial fibrillation, and heart transplantation. He is Director of the Cardiac Surgery and Cardiovascular Centers at Myongji Hospital. He pioneered advanced coronary bypass in Korea. He has extensive OPCAB experience and works on the TECAB team using the da Vinci Xi.

In 2025, his team performed Korea’s first totally endoscopic CABG without cardiopulmonary bypass. In August 2026, they achieved the nation’s first multivessel TECAB.

He is former Chair of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Seoul National University College of Medicine. He is also former Chief of the same department at Seoul National University Hospital. He serves on the Editorial Board of The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. He is a member of AATS, STS, and EACTS. He is a past President of the Korean Societies of Coronary Artery Surgery, Surgical Treatment of Arrhythmias, and Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. His research includes 130+ international and 140+ Korean papers. He has given 80+ international and 80+ Korean lectures. He earned his MD, Master’s, and PhD at Seoul National University.

Professor Lee Seok-gu is a leading liver transplant surgeon at Myongji Hospital. He has performed about 2,000 liver transplants. He achieved Korea’s first transfusion-free liver transplant. He performed hepatocyte transplantation in a one-month-old infant. He led the first clinical use of a bioartificial liver for acute liver failure. He also performed living-donor transplants in Egypt and trained teams in Vietnam.

He is Professor of Surgery at Myongji Hospital and former Director of the Organ Transplantation Center at Samsung Medical Center. He earned his MD and MSc from Seoul National University and his PhD from the Catholic University of Korea. He completed a fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard and transplant training at Johns Hopkins. He served as president of three national societies in transplantation and pediatric surgery. His honors include the Chong Kun Dang Award, the Pfizer Clinical Medicine Award, and the Astellas Investigator Award. He has 447 publications and 13 book chapters.

Il Dr. Kim Dong-sik è specializzato in trapianti di fegato e addominali, con fellowship presso l'Asan Medical Center e l'Università di Cincinnati.

• Vincitore del premio Fellows Excellence in Research Award
• Membro di società prestigiose tra cui ASTS e ILTS
• Riconosciuto con il The Korea Health & Medical Award 2015
• Esperto in chirurgia epatobiliopancreatica e trapianto di fegato

Il Dr. Jung Cheol-woong porta un'esperienza internazionale nei trapianti maturata presso istituzioni di primo piano come il Queen Mary Hospital e l'Università di Cincinnati.

• Formazione in chirurgia dei trapianti presso l'Università di Hong Kong
• Fellowship presso il Centro Medico dell'Università di Cincinnati
• Membro dell'International Pancreas and Islet Transplant Association
• Membro ordinario della The Transplantation Society