Yang Hyun CHO

Associate Professor
Director of Adult ECMO service, Center for Intensive Care
Surgical Director of Advanced Heart Failure & Mechanical Circulatory Support Team,
Heart-Vascular-Stroke Institute, Samsung Medical Center, South Korea

Dr Yang Hyun Cho graduated from the Korea University School of Medicine in 2001 and pursued his residency at the Korea University Hospital in the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Department. On the completion of his residency, he took up a position as Clinical Fellow at the Cardiac Surgery Department of the Samsung Medical Centre before accepting a 2 year fellowship at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester. In the interim, Dr Yang pursued and completed his Ph.D at the School of Medicine, Korea University in 2013, taking up his current position as the Director of Adult ECMO service at the Samsung Medical Center. An avid researcher, Dr Yang has special interests in Extracorporeal life support, Mobile ECMO service, Left ventricular assist device, Heart transplantation, Aortic surgery, Patient safety and Simulation for medical education, and has authored almost 80 publications internationally.