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'{{Infobox University President | name =Jim Yong Kim | image =Jim Kim.JPG | caption = | order = 17th | university =President of [[Dartmouth College]] | term_start = [[July 1]], [[2009]] | term_end = | birth_date = [[1959]] | birth_place =[[Seoul]], [[South Korea]] | death_date = | death_place = | predecessor =[[James Wright (historian)|James Wright]] | successor = | alumna =[[Brown University]] ([[A.B.]]) <br /> [[Harvard University]] ([[M.D.]]), ([[Ph.D.]]) | residence =[[Hanover, New Hampshire]] | profession =Professor | religion = | salary = | spouse =Younsook Lim | children = 2 | website = | footnotes = |}} '''Jim Yong Kim''' ([[Korean language|Korean]]: 김용) is a [[Korean American|Korean-American]] [[physician]], and 17th President of [[Dartmouth College]]. He has been a Professor of Medicine and [[Social Medicine]] and Chair of the Department of Global Health and [[Social Medicine]] at [[Harvard Medical School]], Chief of the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Director of the Francois Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, and is a former director of the [[World Health Organization]] [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]] department.<ref>[http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/2006-releases/press08102006.html Harvard Medical School Press Release]</ref> He founded the nonprofit medical organization [[Partners in Health]] along with Dr. [[Paul Farmer]], Todd McCormack, Thomas J. White and Ophelia Dahl. On March 2, 2009, Kim was named the 17th President of [[Dartmouth College]], a position he formally assumed on July 1, 2009. Kim is the first Asian-American to assume the post of [[Ivy League Presidents|president]] at an [[Ivy League]] institution.<ref>http://kr.news.yahoo.com/service/news/shellview.htm?linkid=12&articleid=2009030314464067794&newssetid=82</ref> == Career == === Past endeavors === Kim has 20 years of experience in improving health in developing countries. He is a founding trustee and the former executive director of Partners In Health, a not-for-profit organization that supports a range of health programs in poor communities in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi and the United States. From 2004 to 2006, Kim served as Director of the World Health Organization’s HIV/AIDS department, a post he was appointed to in March 2004 after serving as advisor to the WHO Director General. Kim oversaw all of the WHO’s work related to HIV/AIDS, focusing on initiatives to help developing countries scale up their treatment, prevention, and care programs, including the “3x5” initiative designed to put three million people in developing countries on AIDS treatment by the end of 2005. An expert in tuberculosis, Kim has chaired or served on a number of committees on international TB policy. He has conducted extensive research into effective and affordable strategies for treating strains of TB that are resistant to standard drugs. While at WHO, Kim was responsible for coordinating HIV efforts with the TB department. === Recent work === Over the past few years, Kim has been involved in the development of a new field focused on improving the implementation and delivery of global health interventions. He believes that progress in developing more effective global health programs has been hindered by the paucity of large-scale systematic approaches to improving program design. This new field will rigorously gather, analyze, and widely disseminate a comprehensive body of practical, actionable insights on effective global health delivery. In order to develop this field, Kim co-founded the Global Health Delivery project, a joint initiative of Harvard Medical School’s Department of Social Medicine and the Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. The global health field case studies produced by this project form the core of a new global health delivery curriculum now taught at Harvard School of Public Health. Kim’s team has also developed a web-based “community of practice,” [http://www.ghdonline.org GHDonline.org], to allow practitioners around the world to easily access information, share expertise, and engage in real-time problem solving. == Personal == Born in [[Seoul, Korea]] in 1959, Jim Yong Kim moved with his family to the U.S. at the age of five and grew up in [[Muscatine, Iowa]]. His father, a dentist, also taught at the [[University of Iowa]], where his mother received her Ph.D. in philosophy. Kim attended [[Muscatine High School]], where he was valedictorian and president of his class, and played both quarterback for the football team and point guard on the basketball team. He graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from [[Brown University]] in 1982. He was awarded an M.D. from [[Harvard Medical School]] in 1991, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University, Department of Anthropology, in 1993. He was part of Harvard's experimental MD/PhD program in the social sciences, which was new when he was enrolled in its first batch. He is actively involved in a variety of sports, including basketball, volleyball, tennis, and golf. Kim, who is married to Younsook Lim, a [[pediatrician]] at [[Children's Hospital Boston]], has two children, a son, Thomas, who was born in 2000, and a second son who was born on February 27, 2009, a few days before the announcement of Kim's presidency at Dartmouth College. == Awards == Kim received a [[MacArthur Fellowship]] in 2003<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/series/champions/jim_yong_kim.html Global Health Champions Jim Yong Kim, PBS]</ref>, was named one of America's 25 Best Leaders by ''US News & World Report'' in 2005, and in 2006 was listed as one of the top 100 most influential people in the world by ''Time Magazine''.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187277,00.html Scientists and Thinkers - Jim Yong Kim, TIME]</ref>. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies. == Publications == * Farmer PE, Kim JY. Community-based approaches to the control of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: Introducing “DOTS-plus”. British Medical Journal 1998; 317:671-4. * Becerra MC, Bayona J, Freeman J, Farmer PE, Kim JY. Redefining MDR-TB transmission “hot spots.” International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2000; 4(5):387-94. * Farmer P, Leandre F, Mukherjee JS, Claude M, Nevil P, Smith-Fawzi MC, Koenig SP, Castro A, Becerra MC, Sachs J, Attaran A, Kim JY. Community-based approaches to HIV treatment in resource-poor settings. Lancet 2001; 358(9279):404-9. * Farmer PE, Leandre F, Mukherjee J, Gupta R, Tarter L, Kim JY. Community-based treatment of advanced HIV disease: Introducing DOT-HAART (Directly Observed therapy with highly active antiretroviral therapy). Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2001; 79(12):1145-51. * Mitnick C, Bayona J, Palacios E, Shin S, Furin J, Alcántara F, Sánchez E, Sarria M, Becerra M, Fawzi MCS, Kapiga S, Neuberg D, Maguire JH, Kim JY, Farmer PE. Community-based therapy for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Lima, Peru. New England Journal of Medicine 2003; 348(2):119-28. * Gupta R, Irwin A, Raviglione MC, Kim JY. Scaling up treatment for HIV/AIDS: Lessons learned from multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Lancet 2004; 363(9405):320-4. * Kim JY, Farmer P. AIDS in 2006 — Moving toward one world, one hope? New England Journal of Medicine 2006; 355:645-7. * Kim JY. Unexpected political immunity to AIDS. Lancet 2006; 368(9534):441-2. * Kim JY. A lifelong battle against disease. U.S. News and World Report 2007; 143(18):62-4. * Kim JY. Toward a Golden Age- Reflections on Global Health and Social Justice. Harvard International Review 2007; 29 (2): 20-25. * Kim JY, Farmer P. Surgery and Global Health: A View from Beyond the OR. World Journal of Surgery 2008; 32(4): 533–6. * Jain S, Kim JY. Delivering Global Health. Student British Medical Journal 2008; 16:27. * Kim JY, Millen JV, A Irwin, J Gershman (eds.). Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2000. ==Notes== {{seealso|Ivy League Presidents}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~president/ Dartmouth Office of the President] *[http://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/about/history/ Profile at the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine] *[http://www.pih.org/index.html Partners In Health] *[http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/buniverse/videos/view/?id=154 Lecture by Jim Kim on the future of global health]. *[http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09112009/profile2.html Interview with Bill Moyers and Dr.Jim Yong Kim September 11, 2009] *[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~president/inauguration/webcast.html Dartmouth Inauguration Webcast - 09-22-2009] {{WheelockSuccession}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Jim Yong}} [[Category:American physicians]] [[Category:Brown University alumni]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:MacArthur Fellows]] [[Category:Korean Americans]] [[Category:Harvard Medical School alumni]] [[Category:Harvard Medical School faculty]] [[Category:Partners in Health]] [[Category:People from Muscatine County, Iowa]] [[Category:Presidents of Dartmouth College]] [[Category:1959 births]] [[ko:김용 (1959년)]]'