Gyu-Seog Choi, MD

Choi, G.S.

Daegu, Korea

He graduated school of medicine, Kyungpook national university and completed surgical residency at Kyungpook nation al university hospital in Daegu, Korea.

He received degree of Ph.D. at the same university and he pursued research fellowship for cancer genetics at Cancer research UK, Oxford, UK.

After his retum to Korea, prof. Choi organized MIS training and research center at Kyungpook national university hospital. He has pioneered minimally invasive surgery with personal experiences of over 2000 laparoscopic and 100 robotic colorectal surgeries. As an active member of many domestic and international scientific societies, he contributed 60 papers in surgical and oncologic field of science.

Many outstanding achievements have led him to win the prizes including Karl-Storz award from EAES. At present he is a professor and head of colorectal surgery at Kyungpook national university hospital. His main interests are MIS and robotic surgery for colorectal cancer and cancer immunogenetics.

Languages-spoken: Korean, English