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World’s First 9,000 Liver Transplantations

Over the past 30 years, the relentless efforts of Korean medical teams to save patients with life-threatening end-stage liver disease have written a new chapter in history by achieving the world’s first 9,000 liver transplantations. Through 9,000 life-and-death challenges, a terminally ill baby has grown into a healthy young adult, and a father in his forties who once awaited death has lived to experience the joy of welcoming grandchildren. Countless lives have blossomed like miracles.

Asan Medical Center MOU Extension with the U.S.

The University of Minnesota Medical School, Which Trained Korean Doctors 70 Years Ago, Collaborating with South Korea on Living Donor Liver Transplantation Since 2015. On April 11th, MOU Extended for Ongoing Research and Education in Liver Transplantation and Related Field with the University of Minnesota Medical School “Collaboration on Living Donor Liver Transplantation with the U.S., Once a Medical Mentor, Demonstrates the Elevated Status of Korean Medicine”

AMC Launches ‘Heavy Ion Therapy System’ in 2031

Asan Medical Center Launches ‘Heavy Ion Therapy System,’ Set To Begin Operation Starting in 2031. Agreement Sign with Toshiba Consortium on the 7th, Establishing Cutting-Edge Treatment Environment to Provide Precision Medicine for Patients with Intractable Cancer. AMC President Seung-Il Park “Expanding Access to Cancer Treatment and Advancing the Standard of Cancer Treatment in Korea”

Promoting Advanced Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

I am a specialist in hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. Since January last year, I have been training at Asan Medical Center, covering advanced surgeries, such as liver transplantation using small grafts, robotic surgery for pancreatic and liver cancer, and portal and superior mesenteric vein resection for advanced pancreatic cancer. I wish to build on my training experience to introduce robotic surgery in hepato-biliary-pancreatic diseases and expand the scope of living donor liver transplantation when I return to Saudi Arabia.

Asan Medical Center, ‘No.1 in Korea and 25th Globally’

Asan Medical Center of the ASAN Foundation (Chairman Chung Mong-Joon) has ranked the highest among hospitals in South Korea and 25th in the world in the global hospital evaluation conducted by Newsweek, a U.S. weekly news magazine.