Edward S. Kim was named senior vice president and vice physician-in-chief at City of Hope, and physician-in-chief at City of Hope Orange County.
As City of Hope Orange County’s chief physician, he will be responsible for driving innovation in cancer care and delivery for the Orange County network of care and the planned Irvine campus.
He is an expert in molecular prognostication for lung, head and neck cancers.
Kim is a former chair of Solid Tumor Oncology and Investigational Therapeutics, the Donald S. Kim Distinguished Chair for Cancer Research, and medical director of the Clinical Trials Office at the Levine Cancer Institute, Atrium Health. Kim was also a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Prior to the Levine Cancer Institute, he held many leadership positions including associate tenured professor in the Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology at Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Kim has recently completed his Masters in Business Administration at the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler School of Business.
