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About David Sung Yong Kang
David Sung Yong Kang
Founder and Clinical Director at Eyereum Ophthalmic Clinic and CEO of Eyereum Healthcare, the Republic of Korea
Kang also serves as outpatient Clinical Associate Professor at Ulsan University, Asan Medical Center and as out-patient Assistant Clinical Professor at Severance Hospital, Yonsei University School of Medicine in Seoul. His primary passion is corneal wavefront-guided ablation for amelioration of aberrations for keratoconus, cornea ectasia, and central islands. Kang has received three Best Academic Achievement Awards from the Korean Ophthalmological Society, including the Best Video Award. To date, he has rights to six patents. His first patent, registered in 2008, involves using circumlinear capsulorhexis technology during cataract surgery. Since then he has patented new methods of de-epithelization of the cornea prior to refractive surface ablation, removing phakic IOLs, and removing lenticules during SMILE.
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