Min P. Kim, MD, FACS

Clinical and research interests: treatment of benign and malignant diseases of the esophagus, lung, mediastinum, diaphragm, and chest wall

Dr. Min Kim received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. During medical school, he received the prestigious Howard Hughes Fellowship to perform research at the National Institutes of Health. During medical school, he received the Harold Lamport Research Award, the Paul Ehrlich Research Award, and the Henry Strong Denison Scholarship for his research. In addition, he was awarded the Recognition for Outstanding Research at the National Institutes of Health. After completing medical school, Dr. Kim attended Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, where he completed his general surgery residency. After his general surgery training, he received a thoracic surgery fellowship at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where he completed his training in cardiothoracic surgery.

Dr. Kim is currently the Head of Division of Thoracic Surgery at Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. He is an expert in minimally invasive thoracic surgery and thoracic surgical oncology. In addition, he has been appointed as David M. Underwood Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, Associate Member of the Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Institute for Academic Medicine at Houston Methodist.

Dr. Kim’s clinical interests include the treatment of benign and malignant diseases of the esophagus, lung, mediastinum, diaphragm, and chest wall. He specializes in minimally invasive procedures, such as robot-assisted lobectomy, robot-assisted hiatal hernia repair, robot-assisted thymectomy, and robot assisted esophagectomy, to treat patients with disease of the thoracic cavity.

Editorial Board (Thoracic Surgery)
Terms of Appointment: September 2018 - August 2020;  September 2020 - August 2022;  September 2022 - August 2024