John Y. Kim MD

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.