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The Council of International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS) will honor Yoogoo Kang, M.D., Professor and Vice Chair of Anesthesiology, Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, for his significant contribution to liver transplantation.

On June 22 Dr. Kang will receive the 2007 ILTS Distinguished Service Award during the Congress Gala Dinner in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and will be recognized as a founding member of the society and as its first president.

A nationally recognized liver transplant anesthesiologist, Dr. Kang serves on the liver transplantation team at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He has participated in more than 1,000 liver transplant procedures during his career.

Prior to coming to Jefferson, Dr. Kang was a professor of Anesthesiology at both the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans and the University of Pittsburgh, where he was theDirector of Hepatic Transplantation Anesthesiology.

In that role, Dr. Kang directed educational activities including undergraduate programs, and helped guide and stimulate development of first hand experiences for students in medicine, anesthesiology and research.

Dr. Kang completed a fellowship in obstetric anesthesia at the University Health Center of Pittsburgh, an anesthesiology residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, a surgical residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center and a surgical internship at the Hospital of St. Raphael in New Haven, Conn.

He received a doctor of medicine degree in 1971 from the Seoul National University School of Medicine in Korea.

The International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS) was founded by Dr. Kang and colleagues in Pittsburgh in 1990.  It was recognized that liver transplantation could not be handled by a small number of physicians, but rather requires the collective and collaborative participation and expertise of physicians and scientists from diverse fields.  The goal of the Society has been to raise the standard of care for patients requiring liver transplantation and to promote education and research by disseminating and exchanging information related to liver transplantation within the medical community, as well as to the public.