Affiliation is: Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul National University Bundang

Hospital, Seongnam, Korea

• Graduated from Seoul National University (SNU) College of Medicine in 1987
• Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery resident training in SNU Hospital till 1992
• Staff cardiac surgeon in Samsung Medical Center from 1995 through 2005
• Visiting doctor in Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas, USA) for 1 year in 2002
• Current affiliation: Staff surgeon in SNU Bundang Hospital since December 2005 & tenured professor in SNU College of Medicine since 2012
• > 100 publications in English journals and > 50 presentations or lectures in international scientific meetings
• Organizer of the biannual Bundang Aortic Surgery Symposium (BASS) which started with a live surgery of thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair in 2008
• Council member / vice secretary general / aortic domain chief of the Asian Society for Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ASCVTS) since 2019
• Congress president of ASCVTS 2023 Annual Meeting in Busan, Korea
• Member of Korean Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
• Member of European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery