Sang-mo Kang MD

Dr. Sang-Mo Kang is an organ transplant surgeon, performing transplants of the kidney, liver and pancreas, and surgical director of the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplantation Program. His expertise includes gastrointestinal surgery, laparoscopic kidney donor surgery, laparoscopic liver surgery and surgery related to the liver, bile ducts and gallbladder.
Kang maintains a research laboratory focused on understanding the immune response to transplanted organs and new methods to induce transplant-specific tolerance with the goal of replacing immunosuppressive medications. He has been awarded grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons-Novartis Fellowship for transplant research.
An associate professor of surgery, Kang teaches fellows, residents and medical students. He earned a medical degree at Harvard Medical School and completed a surgical residency and transplant fellowship at UCSF Medical Center. He received two Howard Hughes Medical Institute research fellowships, which he used to study transplant immunology at the NIH and the Transplantation Research Laboratory at UCSF.