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    Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD

    Neurosurgeon
    WashU Medicine

    Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD is the August A. Busch Jr. Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of The Brain Tumor Center at Siteman Cancer Center and WashU Medicine. He is Senior Vice-Chair of the Taylor Family Department of Neurosurgery and is Co-Director of the Advanced Surgical Neuro-Oncology Fellowship. After growing up in New York City and northern New Jersey, he went on to study East Asian Studies at Harvard University. He then received his Master's in Biology and Biomedical Science at Washington University in St. Louis followed by MD, PhD degrees from New York University, where he performed his thesis work with Dr. Moses Chao. Dr. Kim underwent residency training in neurosurgery at Brigham and Women’s/Boston Children’s Hospitals at Harvard Medical School, and during this time, he was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Azad Bonni. He completed a fellowship in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery at the University of Miami under Drs. Roberto Heros and Jacques Morcos before joining the Department of Neurosurgery at WashU Medicine in 2011. His clinical focus is the management of complex brain tumors. Dr. Kim has made fundamental as well as translational discoveries in the field of brain tumors, including glioblastomas, meningiomas, vestibular schwannomas, and pituitary tumors. He has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2012 and has published > 160 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Kim has served in leadership positions in the AANS/CNS Section on Tumors, the Society for Neuro-Oncology, and the Southern Neurosurgical Society. He is an Associate Editor of Neuro-Oncology Advances and Neurosurgery. He is Co-Director of the Society of Neurological Surgeons (SNS) RUNN course and serves as faculty mentor for the NINDS K12 NRCDP, SNS NSTP, and Academy Emerging Investigator Mentoring Program.

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