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Gloria Y. Kim, MD, MPH, MS (she/her/hers)

University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States

Gloria Kim, MD, graduated from Wellesley College with a BA in Computer Science and earned her MD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016. She completed an integrated Vascular Surgery residency at the University of Michigan, which included two years of dedicated research and a Master of Science in Health and Healthcare Research from the University of Michigan. During the two years of dedicated research, Dr. Kim received T32 funding and was a University of Michigan Center for Healthcare Outcomes & Policy fellow as well as an active member of a multidisciplinary aging research group. In a prior career, her work involved health policy research at one of the largest county public health departments in the country. She also has a Master of Public Health in Biostatistics and Epidemiology from Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.

Dr. Kim’s practice site is VA Puget Sound Health Care System, covering scheduled outpatient clinics and inpatient and outpatient surgeries. She holds clinical privileges at UW Medical Center-Montlake, UW Medical Center-Northwest, and Harborview Medical Center, participating in divisional clinical call coverage and rotation at all sites with fellow vascular surgery attendings.

Dr. Kim’s research focuses on optimizing surgical care for frail patients, improving disparities in vascular surgery, better understanding the patient-doctor relationship with the aim of enhancing shared treatment decisions for peripheral artery disease, taking a wide-angle approach to improving patient-reported outcomes, and developing new technology to improve patient care. She also conducts research evaluating clinical outcomes and has significant research experience using large administrative data and registry data as well as qualitative research methods. Dr. Kim’s long-term goal is to facilitate patient-centered care in real world clinical settings through valuable, easily applicable ways.

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