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Min Kim, MD

  • Houston Methodist thoracic surgeon
  • David M. Underwood Distinguished Professor of Surgery in Digestive Disorders, Houston Methodist Hospital Department of Surgery
  • Associate Professor of Surgery, Houston Methodist Institute for Academic Medicine
  • Associate Professor of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College
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Min Kim, MD

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Media Contact: Amy Rose , 412.613.1428

Areas of Expertise

  • Da Vinci esophagectomy
  • Da Vinci hiatal hernia repair
  • Linx
  • Lung cancer
  • Lung resection
  • Malignant neoplasm of esophagus
  • Matrix biology
  • Metastasis
  • Minimally invasive lung cancer surgery
  • Minimally invasive pulmonary
  • Thymoma
  • Video assisted thoracoscopic surgery

Credentials

BOARD CERTIFICATION
American Board of Thoracic Surgery
MEDICAL SCHOOL
John Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md. | 2003
INTERNSHIP
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | 2004
RESIDENCY
General Surgery | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Mass. | 2008
FELLOWSHIP
Thoracic surgery | University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Publications


A systematic review of general surgery robotic training curriculums
Del Calvo, H, Kim, MP, Chihara, R & Chan, EY 2023, , Heliyon, vol. 9, no. 9, e19260, pp. e19260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19260



Chest Tubes Are Painful
Kim, MP 2023, , Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 115, no. 4, pp. 843-844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.05.006

Lobectomy Provides Optimal Survival in Select Octogenarians
Chan, EY, Nguyen, DT & Kim, MP 2023, , Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 115, no. 3, pp. 799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.06.006





Complex Robotic Lung Resection
Amirkhosravi, F & Kim, MP 2023, , Thoracic Surgery Clinics, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 51-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.thorsurg.2022.08.006

Surgical Treatment of Atrioesophageal Fistula: A Systematic Review
Amirkhosravi, F, Azimuddin, A, Nguyen, DT, Chihara, R, Chan, EY, Graviss, EA, Reul, RM & Kim, MP 2023, , Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 116, no. 2, pp. 421-428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2023.04.016

Video-based curriculum improves resident participation during robot-assisted surgery
Kim, MP, Calvo, HD, Chihara, R & Chan, EY 2022, , Journal of Thoracic Disease, vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 4641-4649. https://doi.org/10.21037/jtd-22-603

Association between isolated abnormal coagulation profile on transfusion following major surgery: A NSQIP analysis of individuals without bleeding disorders
Lim, K, Satkunasivam, R, Nipper, C, Xu, J, Hsu, E, Slawin, JR, Roy, T, Allenson, KC, Kim, MP, Barber, SM, Ellis, T, Akinsola, O, Klaassen, Z, Esnaola, N, Ravi, B, Jerath, A & Wallis, CJD 2022, , Transfusion, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 2223-2234. https://doi.org/10.1111/trf.17146

Self-assisting robot-assisted pulmonary lobectomy has favorable outcome compared to VATS lobectomy
Shah, AS, Nguyen, DT, Chihara, R, Chan, EY, Graviss, EA & Kim, MP 2022, , Journal of Thoracic Disease, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 3187-3196. https://doi.org/10.21037/jtd-22-176

Health System Strategy to Safely Provide Surgical Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Kim, MP, Law, YY, Nguyen, DT, Jones, SL, Graviss, EA & Phillips, RA 2022, , NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery, vol. 3, no. 2. https://doi.org/10.1056/CAT.21.0318

Lobectomy Provides the Best Survival for Stage I Lung Cancer Patients Despite Advanced Age
Chan, EY, Amirkhosravi, F, Nguyen, DT, Chihara, RK, Graviss, EA & Kim, MP 2022, , Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 114, no. 5, pp. 1824-1832. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.03.031

Anatomic Pulmonary Resection is Associated With Improved Survival in Typical Carcinoid Lung Tumor Patients
Del Calvo, H, Nguyen, DT, Chan, EY, Chihara, R, Graviss, EA & Kim, MP 2022, , Journal of Surgical Research, vol. 275, pp. 352-360. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2022.02.048

Integrative metabolomics and transcriptomics analysis reveals novel therapeutic vulnerabilities in lung cancer
Thaiparambil, J, Dong, J, Grimm, SL, Perera, D, Ambati, CSR, Putluri, V, Robertson, MJ, Patel, TD, Mistretta, B, Gunaratne, PH, Kim, MP, Yustein, JT, Putluri, N, Coarfa, C & El-Zein, R 2023, , Cancer Medicine, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 584-596. https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.4933

Robot-assisted Thoracoscopic Lobectomy of T4 Lung Cancer
Shah, A, Nance, JW, Chihara, R, Chan, EY & Kim, MP 2022, , Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 114, no. 4, pp. e265-e267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2021.12.021

Languages

  • English
  • Korean