Assistant Professor,
Medicine
She/Her/Hers
Dr. Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Kim received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she was a MHSAS fellow through the SAMHSA APA Minority Fellowship Program. She also completed her NIMH T32 postdoctoral fellowship at UCLA in health psychology, where she examined variations in coping and physical, psychological symptoms in cancer survivorship. Dr. Kim examines physical and mental health across these diverse contexts, with the goal of translating findings to create or enhance psychosocial interventions that promote well-being. Areas of central focus are coping with (advanced/metastatic) cancer, internalizing symptoms with significance for disability/mortality (depressive, physical/somatic, traumatic stress), Asian American/immigrant or limited English proficiency populations, and the role of trauma or chronic adversity. More broadly, Dr. Kim collaborates on research for improving the health and quality of life for racial/ethnic minority and medically underserved populations.
Email: jhjkim@hs.uci.edu
Website: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/kimlab/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jhjkim-phd