RogerKimMDMSCE

Pulmonology • Philadelphia, PA

Critical Care Medicine, Interventional Pulmonology

Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Office
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Summary

Dr. Roger Kim is an interventional pulmonologist and critical care specialist at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and has completed 8 years of post-graduate training. He has specialized clinical expertise in minimally invasive pulmonary and thoracic procedures. His clinical research focus is in thoracic oncology.

Education & Training

Hospital of the University of PennsylvaniaInterventional Pulmonology, 2022 - 2023
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaMasters of Science, Clinical Epidemiology, 2019 - 2021
University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 2018 - 2021
Yale-New Haven Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 2015 - 2018
Yale School of MedicineClass of 2015, Doctor of Medicine
Yale UniversityBachelor of Science, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Cum Laude, 2006 - 2010

Certifications & Licensure

PA State Medical License 2018 - 2024
CT State Medical License 2017 - 2018
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Department of Medicine Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Outstanding Faculty Abstract Award University of Pennsylvania, 2024
Thoracic Oncology Early Career Achievement Award American Thoracic Society, 2024
2022 Top Peer Reviewer Annals of Internal Medicine, 2024
Top Peer Reviewer Annals of Internal Medicine, 2023
AABIP Fellows’ Challenge Winner American Association of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, 2023
New Faculty Bootcamp Participant American Thoracic Society, 2023
2023 Assembly on Thoracic Oncology Abstract Scholarship American Thoracic Society, 2023
2021 Top Peer Reviewer Annals of Internal Medicine, 2022
2021 Assembly on Thoracic Oncology Abstract Scholarship American Thoracic Society, 2021
Department of Medicine Bradley Clinical Research Fellow Award University of Pennsylvania, 2021
Graduation with Investigative Distinction Yale Traditional Internal Medicine Program, 2018
Philadelphia Area Critical Care Ultrasound Program Certificate of Completion 2018
Internal Medicine Award American College of Physicians (CT Chapter), 2015
Farr Scholarship for Excellence in Research Yale University School of Medicine, 2014
Medical Education Elective Certificate of Completion Yale University School of Medicine, 2014
American Society of Hematology Abstract Achievement Award American Society of Hematology, 2014
American Society of Nephrology Foundation for Kidney Research Student Scholar 1-Year Fellowship American Society of Nephrology, 2013
Graduated cum laude with Honors in Biology Yale University, 2010
Healthcare Heroes Volunteer of the Year Business New Haven, 2010
Yale College Dean's Research Fellowship Yale University, 2008
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Clinical Trials

Assessment of a Radiomics-based Computer-Aided Diagnosis Tool for Pulmonary nodulES Start of enrollment: 2024 Jan 09
Recruiting
Not Applicable
Roles: Principal Investigator

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Screening for Lung Cancer, Overdiagnosis, and Healthcare Utilization: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.
So Yeon Kim, Gerard A Silvestri, Yeon Wook Kim, Roger Y Kim, Sang-Won Um
Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 2024-12-09
Lung cancer mortality trends and disparities: A cross-sectional analysis 1999-2020.
Sabrina Soin, Ramzi Ibrahim, Rebecca Wig, Numaan Mahmood, Hoang Nhat Pham
Cancer Epidemiology. 2024-10-01
Clinical utility of an artificial intelligence radiomics-based tool for risk stratification of pulmonary nodules.
Roger Y Kim, Clarisa Yee, Sana Zeb, Jennifer Steltz, Andrew J Vickers
JNCI Cancer Spectrum. 2024-09-02

Journal Articles

Screening for Lung Cancer, Overdiagnosis, and Healthcare Utilization: Nationwide Population-based Study
Kim SY, Silvestri GA, Kim YW, Kim RY, Um SW, Im Y, Hwang JH, Choi SH, Eom JS, Gu KM, Kwon YS, Lee SY, Lee HW, Park DW, Heo Y, Jang SH, Choi KY, Kim Y, Park YS, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 12/9/2024
Clinical Utility of an Artificial Intelligence Radiomics-based Tool for Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Nodules
Kim RY, Yee C, Zeb S, Steltz J, Vickers AJ, Rendle KA, Mitra N, Pickup LC, DiBardino DM, Vachani A, Journal of the National Cancer Institute Cancer Spectrum, 9/2/2024
Lung Cancer Mortality Trends and Disparities: A Cross- sectional Analysis 1999-2020
Soin S, Wig R, Ibrahim R, Mahmood N, Ferreira JP, Kim RY, Low S, Cancer Epidemiology, 8/27/2024
Liquid Markers for Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Nodules, Ready for Primetime? Yes!
Kim RY, Sears CR, Pastis NJ, CHEST Pulmonary, 7/11/2024
Rebuttal from Dr. Kim et al
Kim RY, Sears CR, Pastis NJ, CHEST Pulmonary, 6/11/2024
Radiomics and Artificial Intelligence for Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Nodules: Ready for Primetime?
Kim RY, Cancer Biomarkers, 2/6/2024
Rates of Downstream Imaging, Invasive Procedures, and Complications Associated with Lung Cancer Screening in Community Practice: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Study
Rendle KA, Saia CA, Vachani A, Burnett-Hartman AN, Doria-Rose VP, Cohen S, Neslund-Dudas C, Oshiro C, Kim RY, Elston- Lafata J, Honda SA, Wainwright JV, Mitra N, Green..., Annals of Internal Medicine, 1/2/2024
Social Vulnerability and Lung Malignancy Mortality
Ibrahim R, Sakr L, Kim RY, Benn BS, Low S, Journal of Cancer Policy, 12/2023
Impact of the Social Vulnerability Index on Pulmonary Embolism Mortality
Ibrahim R, Tirambulo C, Wig R, Kim RY, Benn BS, Low S, CHEST Pulmonary, 5/13/2023
Effect of an Artificial Intelligence Tool on Management Decisions for Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules
Kim RY, Oke JL, Dotson TL, Bellinger CR, Vachani A, Respirology, 4/5/2023
Percent Up-to-Date with Chest CT among Those Eligible for Lung Cancer Screening
Burnett-Hartman AN, Carroll NM, Croswell JM, Greenlee RT, Honda SA, Neslund-Dudas C, Kim RY, Rendle KA, Vachani A, Ritzwoller DP, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1/25/2023
The Performance of an Extended Next Generation Sequencing Panel Using Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Fine Needle Aspiration Samples in Non-squamous Non-small Cell Lun...
Zhang C, Kim RY, McGrath CM, Andronov M, Haas AR, Ma KC, Lanfranco AR, Hutchinson CT, Morrissette JD, DiBardino DM, Clinical Lung Cancer, 12/5/2022
Socioeconomic Status as a Mediator of Racial Disparity in Annual Lung Cancer Screening Adherence
Kim RY, Rendle KA, Mitra N, Saia CA, Neslund-Dudas C, Greenlee RT, Burnett-Hartman AN, Honda SA, Simoff MJ, Schapira MM, Croswell JM, Meza R, Ritzwoller DP, Vachani A, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 10/28/2022
Diagnostic Yield of Augmented Fluoroscopy Guided Bronchoscopy Using Cone-beam CT with or without Ultrathin Bronchoscope Versus Conventional Techniques: A Retrospectiv...
DiBardino DM, Kim RY, Cao Y, Andronov M, Lanfranco AR, Haas AR, Vachani A, Ma KC, Hutchinson CT, Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology, 8/3/2022
Artificial Intelligence Tool for Assessment of Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules Detected with CT
Kim RY, Oke JL, Pickup LC, Munden RF, Dotson TL, Bellinger CR, Cohen A, Simoff MJ, Massion PP, Filippini C, Gleeson FV, Vachani A, Radiology, 5/24/2022
Racial Disparities in Adherence to Annual Lung Cancer Screening and Recommended Follow-up Care: A Multicenter Cohort Study
Kim RY, Rendle KA, Mitra N, Saia CA, Neslund-Dudas C, Greenlee RT, Burnett-Hartman AN, Honda SA, Simoff MJ, Schapira MM, Croswell JM, Meza R, Ritzwoller DP, Vachani A, Annals of the American Thoracic Society, 2/15/2022
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Treatment Patterns for US Patients with Metastatic Solid Cancer
Parikh RB, Takvorian SU, Vader D, Wileyto EP, Clark AS, Lee DJ, Goyal G, Rocque GB, Dotan E, Geynisman DM, Phull P, Spiess PE, Kim RY, Davidoff AJ, Gross CP, Neparidze..., Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 12/10/2021
Comparative Effectiveness of Second-line Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy Versus Chemotherapy for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Kim RY, Li Y, Marmarelis ME, Vachani A, Lung Cancer, 7/17/2021
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Uptake in Real-world Patients with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Kim RY, Mitra N, Bagley SJ, Marmarelis ME, Haas AR, Rendle KA, Vachani A, Journal of Thoracic Oncology Clinical and Research Reports, 5/18/2021
Recanalization of Complete Airway Stenosis after Blunt Force Chest Trauma
Kim RY, Ma KC, Haas AR, American Journal of Medicine, 7/28/2020
Factors Associated with Discharge Home among MICU Patients in an Early Mobilization Program
Kim RY, Murphy TE, Doyle M, Pulaski C, Singh M, Tsang S, Wicker D, Pisani MA, Connors GR, Ferrante LE, Critical Care Explorations, 11/11/2019
Malignant Mesothelioma: Has Anything Changed?
Kim RY, Sterman DH, Haas AR, Seminars in Repiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 6/2019
Fungal Endotipsitis: A Case Report and Literature Review
McCarty TR, Sack J, Syed B, Kim R, Njei B, Journal of Digestive Diseases, 4/2017
A Conserved 20S Proteasome Assembly Factor Requires a C-terminal HbYX Motif for Proteasomal Precursor Binding
Kusmierczyk AR, Kunjappu MJ, Kim RY, Hochstrasser M, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, 5/2011
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Books/Book Chapters

Diagnostic and Interventional Bronchoscopy in Children
Chapter: 35 - Endobronchial Ultrasound
Kim RY, Haas AREditors: Samuel Goldfarb, Joseph Piccione.Springer2021

Abstracts/Posters

The Association between Time to Follow-up Testing after a Positive Screening Examination and Diagnostic Findings
Doria-Rose VP, Ziebell R, Kamineni A, Chubak J, Kim RY, Burnett-Hartman A, Elston Lafata J, Guzman P, Tiro J, Todd K, Zheng Y, Vachani A, Croswell J, International Cancer Screening Network Meeting, 6/2023
Theoretical Net Benefit of a Radiomics- based Computer Aided Diagnosis Tool for Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Nodules
Kim RY, Vickers AJ, Rendle KA, Mitra N, Steltz J, Yee C, DiBardino DM, Vachani A, American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 5/2023
Lung Cancer Yield among Those Undergoing Lung Cancer Screening in Community- based Healthcare Systems
Burnett-Hartman AN, Carroll N, Greenlee RT, Honda SA, Hixon B, Kim RY, Neslund-Dudas C, Oshiro, C, Rendle KA, Saia C, Wain K, Ritzwoller DP, Vachani A, American Society of Preventive Oncology Annual Meeting, 3/2023
Association of Socioeconomic Status with Adherence to Annual Lung Cancer Screening
Kim RY, Rendle KA, Mitra N, Saia CA, Neslund-Dudas C, Greenlee RT, Burnett-Hartman AN, Honda SA, Simoff MJ, Schapira MM, Meza R, Ritzwoller DP, Vachani A, American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 5/2022
Incremental Rates of Imaging and Diagnostic Procedures Attributed to Lung Cancer Screening in Community Practice
Rendle KA, Saia CA, Vachani A, Burnett-Hartman AN, Doria-Rose V, Neslund-Dudas C, Oshiro C, Kim RY, Lafata J, Honda SA, Wainwright J, Mitra N, Greenlee RT, American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 5/2022
Success of Next Generation Sequencing in Non-Squamous Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Using Endobronchial Ultrasound Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Samples
Zhang C, Kim RY, Andronov M, Ma KC, Hutchinson CT, Moon EK, Thompson J, McGrath CM, DiBardino DM, American College of Chest Physicians Annual Meeting, 10/2021
Community-based Lung Cancer Screening Adherence to Lung-RADS Recommendations
Kim RY, Rendle KA, Neslund-Dudas C, Greenlee RT, Burnett-Hartman AN, Honda SA, Simoff MJ, Croswell JM, Ritzwoller DP, Vachani A, American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, 6/4/2021
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Time to Treatment Initiation for Patients with Advanced Cancer
Takvorian SU, Parikh RB, Vader D, Wileyto EP, Clark AS, Lee DJ, Goyal G, Rocque GB, Dotan E, Geynisman DM, Phull P, Spiess PE, Kim RY, Davidoff AJ, Gross CP, Miksad RA..., American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting, 6/2021
An Artificial Intelligence Lung Cancer Prediction Tool Improves Clinicians' Risk Assessment of Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodules
Kim RY, Arteta C, Pickup L, Chometon Q, Munden RF, Dotson TL, Bellinger CR, Gleeson FV, Massion PP, Vachani A, American Thoracic Society International Conference, 5/17/2021
Histologic Subtype Informs Real-world Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Uptake in Patients with Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
Kim RY, Mitra N, Bagley SJ, Marmarelis ME, Haas AR, Rendle KA, Vachani A, American Thoracic Society International Conference, 5/2021
Evaluating Harms Following Lung Cancer Screening across Diverse Community-based Healthcare Systems
Greenlee RT, Rendle KA, Burnett-Hartman AN, Lafata JE, Honda S, Kim RY, Neslund-Dudas C, Oshiro C, Wainwright J, Doria-Rose VP, Vachani A., American Society of Preventive Oncology Meeting, 4/2021
A Novel Finding of a Venobronchopleural Fistula after Diagnosis and Treatment of Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
Hyder SM, Kim RY, Ma KC, American Thoracic Society International Conference, 5/2020
A Retrospective Study of Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Forceps Biopsy with a Novel Miniforceps Device for Evaluation of Thoracic Lymphadenopathy
Kim RY, Ma KC, Thompson J, Moon E, Lanfranco AR, Haas AR, Vachani A, DiBardino D, American Thoracic Society International Conference, 5/2020
Thinking Outside the Carcinoid Box - A Rare Cause of an Endobronchial Lesion
Kim RY, Haas AR, DiBardino DM, American College of Chest Physicians Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 10/2019
Predictors of Discharge Home among MICU Patients Receiving Early Mobilization
Kim RY, Pisani A, Connors GR, Murphy TE, Tsang S, Wicker D, Gill TM, Ferrante LE, American College of Chest Physicians Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 11/2017
Using the Rothman Index to Predict Discharge and Readmission Rates in an Inpatient Hematology Unit
Kim RY, Yao X, Longley P, Rimar J, Kournioti C, Lee AI, American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 12/2014
The Regulation of NHE3 by Multi-site Patterns of Phosphorylation
Kim RY, Aronson PS, Yale School of Medicine Research Conference, New Haven, CT, 5/2014
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Authored Content

Diagnostic Yield Definitions for BronchoscopySeptember 2024
How to Build a Successful Research Career in Interventional PulmonologyJuly 2024
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors Extend Survival for MesotheliomaDecember 2021
Yale 20: Metabolic AcidosisJanuary 2016
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Press Mentions

ATS LIVE! Interviews from the 2023 American Thoracic Society Conference Part 1July 18th, 2023
Yale School of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine Spotlight: Roger Kim, MDMarch 3rd, 2023
Looking Beyond Clinical Trials for Mesothelioma TreatmentNovember 22nd, 2022
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Grant Support

Assessment of a Radiomics-Based Computer-Aided Diagnosis Tool for Cancer Risk Stratification of Pulmonary NodulesNational Cancer Institute2023–2028
Center for Research to Optimize Precision Lung Cancer Screening in Diverse PopulationsNational Cancer Institute2022
Cardiology and Pulmonary Clinical Research Training Program (T32)National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute2019–2021
ASN Foundation for Kidney Research Student Scholar GrantAmerican Society of Nephrology2013–2014
NRSA Short-Term Research Training (T35)National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute2011

Research History

Assistant Professor of MedicineMy research focuses on optimizing the diagnostic process in thoracic oncology, with a particular focus on lung cancer screening and risk stratification of pulmonary nodules.2024 - Present
Instructor of MedicineMy research focuses on optimizing the diagnostic process in thoracic oncology, with a particular focus on lung cancer screening and risk stratification of pulmonary nodules.2023 - 2023
Post-doctoral Research FellowWorked with Dr. Anil Vachani at the University of Pennsylvania studying disparities in lung cancer screening adherence and use of an artificial intelligence computer-aided diagnosis tool for malignancy risk stratification of indeterminate pulmonary nodules.2022 - 2022
Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow ResearcherWorked with Dr. Anil Vachani at the University of Pennsylvania studying immune checkpoint inhibitor use in malignant pleural mesothelioma and optimization of the lung cancer screening process as part of the PROSPR-Lung Consortium.2018 - 2021
Internal Medicine Resident Physician ResearcherWorked with Dr. Lauren Ferrante at the Yale School of Medicine studying the effects of an ICU physical therapy mobility program on patient-centered outcomes.2015 - 2018
Medical Student ResearcherWorked in Dr. Peter Aronson's physiology laboratory at the Yale School of Medicine studying gut oxalate transport and NHE3 patterns of phosphorylation.2010 - 2015
Undergraduate Student ResearcherWorked in Dr. Mark Hochstrasser's molecular biochemistry and biophysics laboratory at Yale University studying proteasome assembly.2007 - 2010