Dr. Kim is a Professor of Division of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Seoul National University Children’s Hospital and Seoul National University College of Medicine in Seoul, Korea. He served as the Chair of Department of Neurosurgery at Seoul National University College of Medicine. He trained at Seoul National University College of Medicine with post graduate studies at Seoul National University Hospital. He completed post-doctoral research fellowship at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. He is a skillful neurosurgeon and has operated on huge numbers of pediatric patients with neurological diseases. He is interested in clinical research on brain tumor, moyamoya disease and epilepsy surgery. He is also directing laboratory of pediatric neurosurgery on cerebral ischemia and stem cell research for central nervous system disorders.