Sang Mo Kang, M.D.

EDUCATION

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, B.A., 1986, Chemistry
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, MD, 1992, Magna Cum Laude
General Surgery Program, University of California at San Francisco, June 1992 to June 1999
University of California, San Francisco, CA, 7/99-3/01, Fellow in Transplant Surgery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

6/84 - 6/86
Research Assistant in Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, Ithaca NY.

1986, 1987
Summer Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

7/89 - 8/91
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - NIH Research Fellow in Laboratory of Immunology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD.

6/95 - 6/97
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician Postdoctoral Fellow in Transplantation Laboratory and Hormone Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

6/92 - 3/01
General Surgery Resident and Transplant Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

4/01 - 7/08
Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

7/08 - present
Associate Professor of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA.

HONORS & AWARDS

1986
Phi Beta Kappa

1986
Merck Scholarship

1985-87
Beinecke Memorial National Scholar

1987
NIH Outstanding Summer Research Fellow Award

1989
Francis D. Moore Scholarship

1991-92
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Continuing Fellowship for "exceptional promise in biomedical research"

1992
Henry Asbury Christian Award for outstanding academic achievement

1995
British Journal of Surgery Award for outstanding surgical resident

1995-97
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Award

1997
ASTS Upjohn Award for most outstanding paper

1997-98
Hefne Research Grant

1998
Elected to AOA for excellence in teaching

1999
ASTS Travel Award

1999-2001
ASTS Novartis Fellowship in Transplantation

2003-2005
ASTS Faculty Development Award