Dr. Duck-Jong Han is a Professor of Surgery at Asan Medical Center, Ulsan University College of Medicine in Seoul.

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Dr. Han received his M.D. from Seoul National University (SNU), and completed his post-doctoral residency training at SNU Hospital in Seoul, Korea. Dr. Han was awarded his PhD from the SNU Graduate School of Medicine.  He then undertook an honorary fellowship in general surgery at the University of Minnesota in Minnesota, USA, and a research fellowship in general surgery at the University of California, San Francisco in California, USA.

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Dr. Han was a Chairman of the Board of Directors and President of the Korea transplant society.  He has presented invited papers/lecture at the Congress of the Asian Society of Transplantation, the World Transplant Congress, and American Transplant Congress.  Dr. Han has been involved in a number of clinical trials, and has publicized more than 400 articles and 15 book chapters.

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In 1992, Dr. Han carried out the first successful cadaveric pancreas transplantation and living donor pancreas transplantation in Korea.  Up to now he has done more than 5,000 renal transplantations and 430 pancreas transplantations including 21 living donor Pancreas Transplantations.

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In 2017, Dr. Han was awarded the precious Asan Medical Prize for his achievement in medicine as a pioneer in pancreas transplantation in diabetic patients and leader in transplantation field in Korea.

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In 2019, Dr. Han held the 1st congress of Asian Pancreas and Islet Transplant Society(APITA) in Seoul as the President of APITA.