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Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Dr. H.J. Kim is the Ted B. Seagroves, Jr., Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair of Strategy and Outreach in the Department of Surgery, and the Chief of the Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery at the UNC School of Medicine. He is a member of the Gastrointestinal and Sarcoma Oncology Programs of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC) and the N.C. Cancer Hospital. Dr. Kim’s clinical specialties include GI cancers with a focus on pancreatic cancer, soft tissue sarcomas, and hepatobiliary malignancies. Dr. Kim is active in numerous leadership roles: Clinical Director of the Tissue Procurement Facility of the LCCC, physician champion for the UNC Performance Improvement and Patient Safety Initiatives, and Surgical Oncology lead to the NC Cancer Hospital Operations Steering Committee. From an educational perspective, he is the Director of the Fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at UNC. He serves on numerous committees of major national surgical organizations, as well as several editorial boards. He has served on the Training, Program, HPB DSWG, SCORE committees of the Society of Surgical Oncology, as well as the Executive Council.
Dr. Kim earned his undergraduate degree in Biology from Dartmouth College and his medical degree from the University of Virginia. He completed his residency at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and a research fellowship at the University of Texas Medical Branch. He completed a clinical surgical oncology fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Friday, March 22, 2024
2:42pm – 2:54pm ET