March 14, 2003
Ellen J. Kim, MD, Joins the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor
of Dermatology
(Philadelphia,
PA) - Ellen J. Kim, MD, has been named Assistant
Professor, Clinician-Educator Track, in the Department
of Dermatology at University of Pennsylvania School
of Medicine.
Dr. Kim began her academic career at Harvard University,
where she earned an AB degree (magna cum laude) in East
Asian Studies. She furthered her education at the University
of Pennsylvania, where she earned her MD in 1996. She
performed her residency at Boston University/Tufts University
and research fellowship with the Department of Dermatology
at Boston University's School of Medicine. Dr. Kim was
also a research scholar in the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute Cloisters Program in Bethesda, Maryland. She
is currently an Attending Physician of the Photopheresis
Service unit and the Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic at the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Her research focuses on novel treatments for cutaneous
T-cell lymphoma. Her research has been published in
the Journal of Immunology and she has contributed to
the peer-reviewed clinical publications Clinical
Nuclear Medicine, the Journal of the American
Academy of Dermatology and the Archives of Dermatology.
Dr. Kim has received many accolades including admission
to Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University, the 2002
Boston University/Tufts University Dermatology Training
Program Teacher of the Year Award, the 2000-2002 Dermatology
Foundation Research Fellowship Award and the 2001 Mentor
Recognition Award from the Siemens Westinghouse Science
& Technology Competition.
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