Yong Kyong Kwon, MD
Pediatric Transplant Surgeon
Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Georgetown Univ School of Medicine (2008)
- Residency
- Georgetown University Hospital (2014), General Surgery
- Fellowship
- Georgetown University Hospital (2016), Transplant Surgery
- Board Certification
- American Board of Surgery
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Pediatric liver transplant outcomes
- Technical variant liver graft utilization
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Publications
Books
- Management of the most difficult perioperative and technical challenges in abdominal transplantation in Surgical Decision Making. Desai CS, Kwon YK, Laftavi M, Whittaker V, Gruessner RW (2016), Cham, Switzerland, Springer
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Professional Activities
- American College of Surgeons
- American Society of Transplant Surgeons
- International Liver Transplantation Society
- International Society of Liver Surgeons
- Society of Pediatric Liver Transplantation
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Awards and Honors
- Fellow of the Year Award (2016), Georgetown University Hospital, Department of Pediatrics
- Outstanding Resident Teacher Award (2014), Georgetown University Hospital, Department of Surgery