NAME: Han-Kwang YANG
Institution and Current Position:
Professor& Chairman, Department of Surgery
Director, Gastric Cancer Center
Seoul National University Hospital
Seoul National University College of Medicine
CURRENT POSITION IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY:
Chairman, Board of Directors, Korean Gastric CancerAssoication (KGCA)
Chairman, Board of Directors, Korean Society of Surgical Oncology (KSSO)
Auditor, Korean Cancer Society
Treasurer (Executive Council) and Council, International Gastric Cancer Association
Editor, The Journal of Gastric Cancer
Associate Editor, Asian Journal of Endoscopic Surgery
Editorial board, Annals of Surgery& World J of Surgery
Honorary Fellow of American Surgical Association
Honorary Member of European Surgical Association
PAST EDUCATION:
1978-1984 Seoul National University College of Medicine
1986-1990 Surigical Resident program at Seoul National University Hospital
1990-1991, 1994-1995 Surgical fellow at Seoul National University Hospital
1991-1994 Visiting fellow, at Navy Medical Oncology Branch, NCI, NIH, USA
1997-1998 Guest Researcher, Laboratory of Cell Regulation and Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Dr. Yang is involved in several large scale RCT’s for gastric cancer treatment. He is Korean PI of REGATTA study (Phase III study for the role of gastrectomy in stage IV gastric cancer with a single incurable factor; a collaboratory study between JCOG and KGCA). He is investigators of CLASSIC trial, KLASS trials as well as the Korean PI of a phase II study for the role of neoadjuvant imatinib treatment in large gastric GIST (a collaborator study between Japan and Korea). His translational research interests are Gastric Carcinogenesis, DDS, familial gastric cancer,biomarkers and developing PDX model for gastric cancer.
He is Chairman of Board of directors Korean Society of Surgical Oncology, executive council member of IGCA, Honorary fellow of American Surgical Association, Honorary member of European Surgical Association, Honorary International Fellow of Japanese Society of Endoscopic Surgery and a member of Korea Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST). He is editor or editorial member of The Journal of Gastric Cancer (official journal of International Gastric Cancer Association), Asian Journal of Endoscopic Surgery, Annals of Surgery, World Journal of Surgery, Annals of Surgical Oncology. Dr. Yang gave over 220 invited lectures to international meetings and oversea institutes with occasional live demonstration of gastrectomy (open, laparoscopic or robotic).