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Dr. Ho-Jung Shin is a leading surgical oncologist whose research focuses on advancing minimally invasive techniques for gastric cancer treatment, with a particular emphasis on robotic and laparoscopic gastrectomy. Her major contributions lie in rigorously comparing these two approaches to determine their long-term efficacy and safety. In her landmark 2020 study (64 citations), she employed advanced propensity score weighting to demonstrate that robotic gastrectomy offers comparable long-term outcomes to laparoscopic gastrectomy, addressing critical selection bias in surgical research. Dr. Shin also pioneered the use of indocyanine green fluorescence for real-time vessel navigation during gastrectomy (52 citations), a technique that significantly improves the precision of pylorus-preserving procedures by identifying the infrapyloric artery. Her innovative "Modified Overlap Method using Knotless Barbed Sutures" (37 citations) streamlined intracorporeal esophagojejunostomy, reducing operative complexity. Through a seven-year institutional analysis (24 citations), she further established that robotic gastrectomy can surpass laparoscopic outcomes as surgeons gain experience, providing crucial evidence for the learning curve in robotic surgery. Dr. Shin’s work has fundamentally shaped modern gastric cancer surgery, offering surgeons and patients data-driven insights into the comparative benefits of robotic and laparoscopic approaches.