Os melhores médicos de Transplante hepático em República da Coreia — TOP 3

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.

Especializado em transplantes de fígado com formação avançada na Coreia do Sul e nos EUA, reconhecido pela excelência em pesquisa e prática clínica.

• Formação de subespecialidade em cirurgia HBP e transplante de fígado no Asan Medical Center
• Especialização adicional em transplante abdominal na Universidade de Cincinnati
• Premiado com o Fellows Excellence in Research Award no Transplant Summit 2007
• Membro de várias sociedades de prestígio, incluindo ASTS, IHPBA e ILTS