John Y Kim
Professor of Surgery (Plastic Surgery) and Dermato
Department of Dermatology
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Kim is a professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery with a clinical focus on aesthetic and breast cancer. He grew up in Toronto, Canada and went to Harvard to study English and American Literature. After a brief stint as a failed writer, he went to Stanford Medical School. There he was a 3 year Howard Hughes Research Fellow working with Dr. Victor Dzau on gene therapeutics. Dr. Kim graduated from Stanford in 1997 with his MD and a concurrent Master of Arts in English Literature. He was in the inaugural integrated general and plastic surgery residency at the Baylor-Texas Medical Center, and from there went to UCLA to complete a joint orthopedic-plastic surgery hand and microsurgery fellowship under Dr. Neil Ford Jones. Dr. Kim has been on faculty at Northwestern since 2004.
Research Interest
Dr. Kim's research focuses on breast cancer reconstruction and aesthetic surgery outcomes. He has published over 180 peer reviewed articles and holds 11 patents on novel medical devices. He is the developer of the Breast Reconstruction Risk Assessment (BRA) Score. Dr. Kim lectures widely on novel techniques and technologies in plastic surgery, and sits on the Editorial Board as Associate Editor of the main specialty journal, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Publications
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Discussion: Improved Recovery Experience Achieved for Women Undergoing Implant-Based Breast Reconstruction Using an Enhanced Recovery after Surgery Model Kim JY Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 2017 Mar; 139(3): 560-561. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PRS.0000000000003057. PMID: 28234820 ISSN: 0032-1052
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Assessing long-term complications in patients undergoing immediate postmastectomy breast reconstruction and adjuvant radiation Sacotte R, Fine N, Kim JY, Alghoul M, Bethke K, Hansen N, Khan SA, Kulkarni S, Strauss J, Hayes JP, Donnelly ED Practical Radiation Oncology. 2017 Mar; 7(2): e91-e97. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.prro.2016.10.017. PMID: 28274406 ISSN: 1879-8500
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Reply to Comments on “Seroma in Prosthetic Breast Reconstruction†Jordan SWW, Kim JY Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 2017 Apr; doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/PRS.0000000000003547. PMID: 28376030 ISSN: 0032-1052
