Lee Seok Gu

Professor Lee Seok-gu is a leading liver transplant surgeon at Myongji Hospital with extensive experience in complex organ transplantation. He has performed approximately 2,000 liver transplantations and has played an important role in the development of liver transplantation in South Korea.

Among his major achievements are Korea’s first liver transplantation performed entirely without blood transfusion, hepatocyte transplantation in a one-month-old infant, and the country’s first clinical application of a bioartificial liver for a patient with acute liver failure. He has also performed living-donor liver transplantations in Egypt and transferred liver transplantation expertise to medical teams in Vietnam.

Education

• PhD in Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea
• Master’s Degree in Medicine, Seoul National University
• MD, Seoul National University College of Medicine

Professional Experience

• Professor of Surgery, Myongji Hospital — Current
• Professor Emeritus, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine
• Former Chair, Department of Surgery, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine / Samsung Medical Center
• Former Director, Organ Transplantation Center, Samsung Medical Center
• Former Director, Pediatric Center, Samsung Medical Center
• Former Chief, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Samsung Medical Center
• Transplant Surgery Training, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA
• Surgical Fellowship, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Pediatric Surgery Fellowship, Seoul National University Hospital

Professional Activities
Former President and Chairman of the Korean Society for Transplantation; former President of the Korean Liver Transplantation Society and the Korean Association of Pediatric Surgeons; Council Member of the Living Donor Liver Transplantation Study Group.

Awards
Chong Kun Dang Academic Award; Pfizer Medical Award in Clinical Medicine; Astellas Investigator Award; Daewoong Medical Award; Samsung Medical Center 25th Anniversary Achievement Award.

Publications
447 scientific publications and 13 textbook chapters.