Professor
Asan Medical Center
Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, Republic of Korea
Dr. Joon Bum Kim is a CV surgeon and widely-published researcher, authoring over 300 peer-reviewed studies. He is a Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Professor at Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea. Dr. Kim has led his department to international prominence as the highest volume program in South Korea, with the department’s major cardiac operations totaling over 2,500 cases annually. He also oversees the training of other leading surgeons throughout Asia.
Dr. Kim completed medical school at Yonsei University and then studied at Asan Medical Center, where he completed his Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery residency. He continued his career at Asan Medical Center as the Chief of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery from 2019 to 2011 and now is the Director of the Aortic Center.
Through his development of novel operations as well as inventions of innovative cardiac devices that facilitate thoracic aortic surgical and aortic root reconstruction procedures, he maintains numerous memberships in Cardiovascular and Cardiothoracic surgery in Asia, Europe, and The United States, notably the American Heart Association (2012), American Association of Thoracic Surgery (2017), and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (2023). Dr. Kim also serves on the Editorial Board of several prominent journals including but not limited to, JTCVS and JACC Asia.
Along with his professional memberships, he has received various awards, including Professor of the Year in Research, University of Ulsan College of Medicine (2014), and 100 Next Generation Leaders in Korea (2020). Dr. Kim was also awarded the Asan Medical Award in 2016, the most prestigious medical award given in Korea.
He has held numerous fellowships, most notably as the AATS Evart Graham Traveling Fellow at MGH, Harvard Medical School. Heserved as the Translational Surgeon Scientist Visiting Professor at Stanford University (2023-24) to study the biomechanics of the novel ringed-graft for valve-sparing root replacement he invented.
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Friday, January 24, 2025
1:30pm – 1:40pm PT