Professor Lee is a renowned for being “the first” in complicated cardiac surgeries. He pioneered the artificial heart transplantation, first off-pump beating heart surgery, and the first percutaneous cardiovascular support

in 2012, 1996, and 2003 respectively.

Beating heart surgery is preferred by patients due to the beauty of its significant benefits such as decreased incidence of stroke, heart failure and renal failure. Although off-pump beating heart surgery is still considered

as a challenging surgery, Professor Lee performs about 400 heart surgery a year and 90 percent of the patients

go through the surgery with Beating Heart Surgery method.

Doctor Lee, began his medical career from Seoul National University, one of the best universities in Korea, acquiring Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD in medicine. During 30 years of his medical practice, he has been giving 8,000 patients new life via his heart surgeries. With his extraordinary experience, the time of his surgery is reduced by 1~2 hours.

* Seoul National University, founded in 1889, was ranked as the top Korean university of clinical medicine in U.S. News, 2018