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Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD (he/him/his)

Professor
Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Albert H. Kim, MD, PhD is the Director of the Brain Tumor Center at Siteman Cancer Center and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and is Professor in the Departments of Neurological Surgery, Genetics, Neurology, and Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine. He also serves as the Surgical Director of the Pituitary Center and is Co-Leader of the Neurorestorative Therapy Group at the Hope Center for Neurological Disorders. After growing up in Queens, New York and northern New Jersey, he went on to study modern Chinese literature at Harvard University. He then received his Masters in Biology and Biomedical Science at Washington University 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 neurological surgery at Brigham and Women’s/Boston Children’s Hospitals at Harvard Medical School, and during this time, he was a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Azad Bonni. He completed a fellowship in cerebrovascular and skull base surgery at the University of Miami prior to joining the Department of Neurological Surgery at Washington University in 2011. Dr. Kim is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. 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, and pituitary tumors. He has been continuously funded by the NIH since 2012. Using genomic, biochemical, and imaging approaches, Dr. Kim’s laboratory focuses on understanding tumor cell heterogeneity and identifying the mechanisms that govern brain tumor cells as well as brain development.

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