Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine

Hyong (Nick) Kim, M.D.

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine

Program Director, PCCM Fellowship

 

CLINICAL INTERESTS:

  1. Pulmonary Hypertension
  2. Chronic Thromboembolic Disease
  3. Critical Care

 

INVESTIGATIVE INTERESTS:

  1. Treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension
  2. Pre-operative evaluation and surgical outcome in CTEPH

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

  1. Kim NH, Rubin LJ. Endothelin in health and disease: endothelin receptor antagonists in the management of pulmonary artery hypertension. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol Ther. 2002; 7:9-19.
  2. Kim NH, Channick RN, Rubin LJ. Successful withdrawal of long-term epoprostenol therapy for pulmonary arterial hypertension. Chest 2003; 124:1612-1615.
  3. Auger WR, Kerr KM, Kim NH, Ben-Yehuda O, Knowlton KU, Fedullo PF. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Cardiol. Clin. 2004; 22:453-66.
  4. Kim NH, Fesler P, Channick RN, Knowlton KU, Ben-Yehuda O, Lee SH, Naeije R, Rubin LJ. Pre-operative partitioning of pulmonary vascular resistance correlates with early outcome following thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Circulation 2004; 109:18-22.
  5. Kim NH. Diagnosis and evaluation of the patient with pulmonary hypertension. Cardiol. Clin. 2004; 22:367-73.
  6. Chin KM, Kim NH, Rubin LJ. The right ventricle in pulmonary hypertension. Coron Artery Dis. 2005; 16:13-8.
  7. Kim NH, Rubin LJ. Management following pulmonary thromboendarterectomy: experience versus evidence. Crit Care Med 2005; 33:2132-3.Kim NH. Assessment of operability in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
    Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2006 Sep;3(7):584-8. Review
  8. Galie N, Kim NH. Pulmonary microvascular disease in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.  Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2006 Sep;3(7):571-6. Review
  9. Auger WR, Kim NH, Kerr KM, Test, VJ, Fedullo PF. Chronic Thromboemboic Pulmonary Hypertension. Clin Chest Med 2007;28(1):255-69.

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Board Certification:

  • Pulmonary Disease
  • Critical Care Medicine

To schedule an appointment with Dr. Kim, contact Annette Whalen at 858-657-7135

To contact Dr. Kim:  h33kim@ucsd.edu