Kyung Ho Kang, MD

Research interests: endocrine surgery, artificial intelligence on medicine

Dr. Kyung Ho Kang is an endocrine surgeon and the Professor in charge of NJH Project Team at Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea. He also is the director of Research Committee in Korean Association of Thyroid and Endocrine Surgeons (KATES) and the director of Insurance Committee in Korean Intraoperative Neural Monitoring Society (KINMoS).

He completed his endocrine surgery fellowship in 2007 at Seoul National University Hospital and joined the faculty. In 2011, he moved to Chung-Ang University Hospital, Thyroid Centre. Since then, he has been performing more than 300 endocrine surgeries a year including robotic operations and most of them are thyroid cancer surgeries. He worked as a visiting professor at Jiaotong University Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, China, for one year (2016-2017) and has lectured many times at academic meetings of Chinese surgical societies. Since Mar 2019, he has been preparing the management of a government hospital in Kuwait as a Professor in charge of NJH Project Team at Seoul National University Hospital.

His special academic interests lie in robot-assisted thyroid surgery, and active surveillance or less invasive thyroid cancer treatment. He has performed more than six hundreds of cases of robotic thyroid surgery with satisfactory results. Especially, he expanded the indications for robotic operation to advanced thyroid cancer with local invasion or lateral lymph nodes metastasis, in which modified radical neck dissection is needed. He has performed more than 50 cases of robotic modified radical neck dissection successfully with bilateral axillo-breast approach, which has not been performed elsewhere.

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Terms of Appointment: August 2019 - July 2021;  August 2021 - July 2023;  August 2023 - July 2025