Biography
Alexander Kim, M.D. is a General Surgery Resident in the Department of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his B.S. in Biology at University of Illinois at Chicago in 2012 and went on to obtain his M.D. from University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine in 2016. During his research years, Dr. Kim worked in the Conte Lab at UCSF, under the mentorship of Michael Conte, M.D., investigating resolution biology and developing novel methods of delivering specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators in vascular disease.
Education
University of Illinois at Chicago - B.S., Biology - 2012
University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Medicine - M.D. - 2016
University of California San Francisco Medical Center - General Surgery Intern - 2016-2017
University of California San Francisco Medical Center - General Surgery Resident - 2017-present
Clinical Interests
Vascular Surgery
Kim AS. ImmersiveTouch: 3D Virtual Reality Simulation with Haptic Feedback. University of Illinois Research Symposium, Chicago, IL, May 2012.
Kim AS, Mahmud N. Roles of DNA Repair Signals Promoting Human Cord Blood Stem Cell Expansion in Culture. University of Illinois College of Medicine Research Symposium, Chicago, IL, November 2014.
Research Interests
Resolution Biology in Vascular Disease
Surgical Innovation