Isaac Y. Kim
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Dr. Isaac Kim is a urologic oncologist and surgeon who specializes in the treatment, management, and prevention of prostate cancer, with the goal of helping patients navigate and better understand their disease. He has expertise in minimally invasive robotic surgery and has completed more than 2,100 robotic surgeries for prostate cancer. Dr. Kim's surgical focus has been on advanced and metastatic prostate cancer, as well as recurrent disease after radiation. Dr. Kim’s clinical research is focused on mechanisms of treatment resistance and specifically immunosuppressive factors produced by prostate cancer cells. He also has a strong interest in inflammation in prostate cancer and the role of surgery in men with advanced or metastatic prostate cancer.
Education & Training
- MBAUniversity of Pennsylvania Wharton Business School, Finance (2017)
- Research FellowshipNational Institutes of Health (2005)
- Clinical FellowshipUniversity of California, Irvine (2005)
- ResidentBaylor College of Medicine (2003)
- MDNorthwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine (1997)
- PhDNorthwestern University Graduate School, Tumor Cell Biology (1996)