Kwang-woong Lee MD, PhD

Professor Kwang-Woong Lee graduated from Seoul National University. He has been with Samsung Medical Center and National Cancer Center, Korea as a hepatic and transplant surgeon. He has also been in Johns Hopkins University Hospital as a LDLT consultant. He is now the associate professor of the Department of Surgery, Seoul National University, Korea. Professor Lee performed the first successful hepatocyte transplantation in Korea when he was in Samsung Medical Center.

His research topics are hepatocyte transplantation, gene delivery, cancer stem cell, best immunosuppressant for HCC, bile duct ischemia induced by warm ischemia, polymorphism and so on. He developed several innovative techniques to reduce biliary complications after liver transplantation such as high hilar dissection (HHD) and Tailored Telescopic Reconstruction (TTR) of bile duct.

He also played an important role to change deceased donor allocation system in Korea (split liver transplantation regulation and Deceased donor allocation system based on MELD) by publishing several important papers analyzing Korean database. He performed first living donor liver transplantation for pure foreign patients in Korea when he was in the National Cancer Center, Korea. He has performed 16 cases of LDLT in Kazakhstan from 2013. Now, he is an executive director of International Health Care of Seoul National University.