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CURRICULUM VITAE

Irene Kim MD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosurgery
Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery

OFFICE ADDRESS:
Children's Corporate Center
999 N 92 St
Milwaukee, WI 53226

EDUCATION:
08/2001 - 05/2005 B.S. Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
08/2001 - 05/2005 B.S. Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
08/2001 - 05/2005 B.S. Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
07/2003 - 11/2003 University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
01/2004 - 05/2004 University College London, London, England
08/2005 - 05/2009 M.D., Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND FELLOWSHIP APPOINTMENTS:
07/2009 - 06/2016 Resident, Neurological Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
07/2016 - 06/2017 Fellow, Pediatric Neurosurgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham / Children's of Alabama, Birmingham, AL

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS:
09/2017 - Present Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

HOSPITAL STAFF PRIVILEGES:
09/2017 - Present Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
09/2017 - Present Neurosurgery, Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee, WI

SPECIALTY BOARDS AND CERTIFICATION:
Certificates
Issued By Issue DateExpiration
Comprehensive Training Program in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
Center for Advanced Radiosurgery, New York University Langone Medical Center
06/2016
None
    

Licensure
Number Issue DateExpiration
New York
270731
06/2013
04/2019
Alabama
35065
04/2016
12/2017
Wisconsin
67679-20
07/2017
10/2019
    

AWARDS AND HONORS:
08/2001 - 05/2005 Wells Scholarship, Indiana University
10/2004 - Present Howard Hughes Medical Institute Capstone Independent Research Opportunities Program Award, Indiana University
2005 Excellence in Research Award, Indiana University Department of Psychology
03/2017 Presentation Award, 3rd Place, Third World Congress on Spina Bifida Research & Care

MEMBERSHIPS IN HONORARY AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
08/2017 - Present American Association of Neurological Surgeons (Provisional Member)
08/2017 - Present Congress of Neurological Surgeons (Active Member)


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Refereed Journal Publications/Original Papers
1. Kim I, Wilson RE, Wellman CL. Aging and cholinergic deafferentation alter GluR1 expression in rat frontal cortex. Neurobiol Aging. 2005 Jul;26(7):1073-81.
2. Garrett JE, Kim I, Wilson RE, Wellman CL. Effect of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor blockade on plasticity of frontal cortex after cholinergic deafferentation in rat. Neuroscience. 2006 Jun 19;140(1):57-66.
3. Shekhtman Y, Kim I, Riviello JJ Jr, Milla SS, Weiner HL. Focal resection of leptomeningeal angioma in a rare case of Sturge-Weber syndrome without facial nevus. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2013;49(2):99-104.
4. Kondziolka D, Shin SM, Brunswick A, Kim I, Silverman JS. The biology of radiosurgery and its clinical applications for brain tumors. Neuro Oncol. 2015 Jan;17(1):29-44. PMCID: PMC4483054
5. Pacione D, Kim I, Wilson TA, Frempong-Boadu A. Cortical screw trajectory for instrumentation and fusion in the setting of osteopathic compression fracture allows for percutaneous kyphoplasty for adjacent level compression fractures. J Clin Neurosci. 2015 May;22(5):899-904.
6. Kim I, Hopson B, Aban I, Rizk EB, Dias MS, Bowman R, Ackerman LL, Partington MD, Castillo H, Castillo J, Peterson PR, Blount JP, Rocque BG. Treated hydrocephalus in individuals with myelomeningocele in the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2018 Dec 01;22(6):646-651. PMCID: PMC8927992
7. Kim I, Hopson B, Aban I, Rizk EB, Dias MS, Bowman R, Ackerman LL, Partington MD, Castillo H, Castillo J, Peterson PR, Blount JP, Rocque BG. Decompression for Chiari malformation type II in individuals with myelomeningocele in the National Spina Bifida Patient Registry. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2018 Dec 01;22(6):652-658. PMCID: PMC8934589
8. King JA, Rodriquez B, Kim I, Nimmer M, Nelson LD, Szabo A, Dong H, Thomas D. Incidence of Neck Pain in Patients With Concussion in a Pediatric Emergency Department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2022 Apr 01;38(4):e1185-e1191. PMCID: PMC8934308
9. Balakrishnan B, VanDongen-Trimmer H, Kim I, Hanson SJ, Zhang L, Simpson PM, Farias-Moeller R. GCS-Pupil Score Has a Stronger Association with Mortality and Poor Functional Outcome than GCS Alone in Pediatric Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2021;56(5):432-439.
10. Lepard JR, Kim I, Arynchyna A, Lew SM, Bollo RJ, O'Neill BR, Perry MS, Donahue D, Smyth MD, Blount J. Early implementation of stereoelectroencephalography in children: a multiinstitutional case series. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2021 Sep 03;28(6):669-676.
11. Koop JI, Credille K, Wang Y, Loman M, Marashly A, Kim I, Lew SM, Maheshwari M. Determination of language dominance in pediatric patients with epilepsy for clinical decision-making: Correspondence of intracarotid amobarbitol procedure and fMRI modalities. Epilepsy Behav. 2021 Aug;121(Pt A):108041.
12. Marashly A, Koop J, Loman M, Kim I, Maheshwari M, Lew SM. Multiple hippocampal transections for refractory pediatric mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: seizure and neuropsychological outcomes. J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2020 Jun 26;26(4):379-388.
13. Kim I, Oakes WJ. Complications after myelomeningocele repair: CSF leak and retethering Complications in Neurosurgery. 1 January 2018:178-183.