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Victor Kim, MD

 

Victor Kim, MD

 

Assistant Professor, Medicine

Telephone:  215-707-3336

Email: victor.kim@tuhs.temple.edu

 

 

Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Center for Inflammation, Translational and Clinical Lung Research

Educational Background:

BA, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1994

 

MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1998

 

Internship, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 1999

 

Residency, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 2001

 

Chief Medical Resident, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, 2002

 

Fellowship, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, 2005

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clinical Interests:

  • COPD
  • Sleep disorders
  • Lung transplantation
  • Critical care medicine

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board certification(s):

  • Critical Care Medicine, 2006
  • Sleep Medicine, 2005
  • Pulmonary Medicine, 2004
  • Internal Medicine, 2001

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research interests:

  • Small airways disease in COPD
  • Inflammation and mucous metaplasia in COPD
  • Radiographic evaluation of airway dimensions in COPD

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selected publications:

 

Kim V, Criner GJ,  Oxygen Therapy.  In:  Albert RK, Spiro SG, Jett JR, eds.  Clinical Respiratory Medicine, 3rd ed. Philadelphia:  Elsevier (in press).

 

Kim V, Criner GJ.  Chronic ventilatory assistance in the hospital (non-ICU): Definition and indications.  In eds. Ambrosino N, Goldstein R.  Ventilatory Support in Chronic Respiratory Failure.  New York: Marcel Dekker (in press).

 

Kim V.  Mechanical Ventilation: Year in review.  Advance Magazine (in press).

 

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PUBMED PUBLICATIONS :


Recent Medically Related Publications, Obtained from PubMed (Click on PubMed ID to view abstract)

23204254. Kim V, Criner GJ, Chronic bronchitis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 187:3(228-37)2013 Feb 1

22878279. Kim V, Kretschman DM, Sternberg AL, DeCamp MM Jr, Criner GJ, Weight gain after lung reduction surgery is related to improved lung function and ventilatory efficiency. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 186:11(1109-16)2012 Dec 1

22292596. Swift I, Satti A, Kim V, Make BJ, Newell J, Steiner RM, Wilson C, Murphy JR, Silverman EK, Criner GJ, Demographic, physiologic and radiographic characteristics of COPD patients taking chronic systemic corticosteroids. COPD 9:1(29-35)2012 Feb

21495839. Kim V, Garfield JL, Grabianowski CL, Krahnke JS, Gaughan JP, Jacobs MR, Criner GJ, The effect of chronic sputum production on respiratory symptoms in severe COPD. COPD 8:2(114-20)2011 Apr

21474571. Kim V, Han MK, Vance GB, Make BJ, Newell JD, Hokanson JE, Hersh CP, Stinson D, Silverman EK, Criner GJ, The chronic bronchitic phenotype of COPD: an analysis of the COPDGene Study. Chest 140:3(626-33)2011 Sep

20496295. Cornwell WD, Kim V, Song C, Rogers TJ, Pathogenesis of inflammation and repair in advanced COPD. Semin Respir Crit Care Med 31:3(257-66)2010 Jun

20397809. Kim V, Pechulis RM, Abuel-Haija M, Solomides CC, Gaughan JP, Criner GJ, Small airway pathology and bronchoreversibility in advanced emphysema. COPD 7:2(93-101)2010 Apr

19704323. Kim V, Steiner RM, Interventional treatment options for advanced emphysema: imaging manifestations. J Thorac Imaging 24:3(195-205)2009 Aug

19353346. Kim V, Kelemen SE, Abuel-Haija M, Gaughan JP, Sharafkaneh A, Evans CM, Dickey BF, Solomides CC, Rogers TJ, Criner GJ, Small airway mucous metaplasia and inflammation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. COPD 5:6(329-38)2008 Dec

19218194. Kelsen SG, Aksoy MO, Georgy M, Hershman R, Ji R, Li X, Hurford M, Solomides C, Chatila W, Kim V, Lymphoid follicle cells in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease overexpress the chemokine receptor CXCR3. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 179:9(799-805)2009 May 1

18453364. Kim V, Benditt JO, Wise RA, Sharafkhaneh A, Oxygen therapy in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Proc Am Thorac Soc 5:4(513-8)2008 May 1

18453359. Kim V, Rogers TJ, Criner GJ, New concepts in the pathobiology of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Proc Am Thorac Soc 5:4(478-85)2008 May 1

18453358. Sharafkhaneh A, Hanania NA, Kim V, Pathogenesis of emphysema: from the bench to the bedside. Proc Am Thorac Soc 5:4(475-7)2008 May 1

18453351. Brister NW, Barnette RE, Kim V, Keresztury M, Anesthetic considerations in candidates for lung volume reduction surgery. Proc Am Thorac Soc 5:4(432-7)2008 May 1

17870009. Kim V, Rogers TJ, Criner GJ, Frontiers in emphysema research. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 19:2(135-41)2007 Summer

17136996. Kim V, Kueppers F, D'Alonzo GE Jr, Severe, early-onset emphysema with normal alphal-antitrypsin levels in nonsmokers: a clinical dilemma. COPD 1:2(313-9)2004

16415249. Williams OW, Sharafkhaneh A, Kim V, Dickey BF, Evans CM, Airway mucus: From production to secretion. Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 34:5(527-36)2006 May

15477494. Kim V, Criner GJ, Abdallah HY, Gaughan JP, Furukawa S, Solomides CC, Small airway morphometry and improvement in pulmonary function after lung volume reduction surgery. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 171:1(40-7)2005 Jan 1

11762274. Kim V, Spandorfer J, Epidemiology of venous thromboembolic disease. Emerg Med Clin North Am 19:4(839-59)2001 Nov

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