SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

Background

Dr. Kim is a Professor and Neurosurgeon-in-Chief of Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Seoul National University Children’s Hospital and Seoul National University College of Medicine in Seoul, Korea. He serves as the Executive Director of Pediatric Nervous System Rare Disease Research Center and a 2nd head of Pediatric Clinical Neuroscience Center. Dr. Kim has trained at Seoul National University College of Medicine with post graduate studies at Seoul National University Hospital. He completed post-doctoral research fellowship at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. Dr. Kim is a skillful neurosurgeon and has operated on huge numbers of pediatric patients with neurological diseases. He is interested in clinical research on brain tumor, epilepsy surgery and moyamoya disease. He is also directing basic research on cerebral ischemia and stem cell research for CNS disorders.