HYUNG Woo Jin Korea (Republic of)

Dr. Hyung is a Professor of the Department of Surgery at Yonsei University College of Medicine. As a gastric surgeon, he was the first to introduce robotic surgery for gastric cancer in Korea and now has the world’s largest number of robotic gastric cancer surgery cases. He has numerous publications in authoritative academic journals on minimally invasive surgery through laparoscopic and robotic surgery. His main areas of research interest are surgical oncology, especially gastric cancer, image-guided surgery, and fluorescence use in minimally invasive surgery. In May 2017, he established a start-up company named “Hutom” which is developing a surgical navigation and surgery analytics platform using surgical data science with artificial intelligence.