Prof. Park is a breast surgeon and surgical oncologist currently working as a professor in the Department of Surgery at Yonsei University College of Medicine.

 

He is one of the pioneers in robot mastectomy. He began performing the robotic mastectomy using cadaveric samples in 2013. He performed the first human case of a robot mastectomy in Asia in 2016. He developed a gasless technique of robot mastectomy and was the first to publish a paper describing it. He also performed the first robot mastectomy and robotic axillary lymph node dissection using the new da Vinci SP system in 2018 and 2019, respectively. He is actively applying robotic surgical systems in mastectomy and/or axillary lymph node dissection for women with breast cancer or BRCA1/2 mutations. He is one of the high-volume surgeons in his country performing over 500 breast surgeries in 2018. His team at Severance Hospital performed over 200 cumulative cases of robotic mastectomy in 2020.

 

He is actively participating in the clinical trial group of the Korean Breast Cancer Society. He established the Korea Robot-Endoscopy & Minimal Access Breast Surgery Study Group (KoREa-BSG) and the director of general affairs of the group. He has published over 70 scientific articles in the literature, conducted numerous lectures as an invited speaker in many scientific conferences, and he wrote several chapters of a textbook of breast oncology in Korea. His research interests include robot breast surgery, oncoplastic breast surgery, surgical oncology, minimally invasive surgery, endocrine surgery, biostatistics, preclinical models, and genomics.