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About Dr. Katherine Kim
Dr. Katherine Kim is a board-certified gastroenterologist dedicated to excellent patient care. Originally from Irvine, California she did her undergraduate at UCLA where she majored in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, minored in English and graduated with honors. She first became interested in Gastroenterology when she was a premed at Johns Hopkins doing a Masters thesis on early detection of pancreatic cancer. She was inspired by her amazing research mentors who were gastroenterologists and she was set on becoming a gastroenterologist ever since.
Dr. Kim subsequently did her medical school training at University of California, Irvine, her Internal Medicine residency at Icahn School of Medicine in New York City, and her Gastroenterology fellowship training at Cedars-Sinai where the Gastroenterology division is ranked #2 in the nation by U.S. News. She was fortunate to train with world renown experts in IBS, inflammatory bowel disease, hepatology and pancreatobiliary conditions. She has published numerous papers in top GI journals and she is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association.
Dr. Kim was previously a GI hospitalist at PIH Whittier for three years where she covered a 400 bed hospital. She treated acute gastrointestinal conditions such as GI bleeds and helped patients navigate serious diagnoses such as cirrhosis and colon cancer. Dr. Kim found the work to be very meaningful and rewarding but her ultimate goal was to build her own private practice.
One of her guiding philosophies is that it is a privilege to care for her patients and to be trusted with their care. She has received the Superdoctors Award and has been recognized as a Top LA Doctor by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Outside of work, Dr. Kim prioritizes her own health- she has strong personal interests in wellness, nutrition, and meditation. She enjoys staying active with yoga, boxing and pilates. She enjoys spending quality time with her family and friends.