Eugene Kim, MD

Dr. Kim is responsible for care, quality, research and education in the Pediatric Pain Medicine Division for both inpatient and outpatient settings, as well as providing program visibility, growth and leadership.

Dr. Kim received his medical degree and completed his anesthesiology residency at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York. He completed his pain medicine fellowship at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and subsequently joined CHLA as a pediatric anesthesiology fellow before joining ACCM faculty.

Dr. Kim is Board-certified in anesthesiology, pediatric anesthesiology and pain medicine. Since coming to CHLA he has been involved in the management of patients with acute and chronic pain, and has enabled the outpatient Pain Medicine Clinic to expand to five full days a week on the Sunset campus and an additional half-day in the Arcadia Neighborhood Care Center, becoming the largest comprehensive interdisciplinary pain clinic in Southern California. He has also been instrumental in growing the inpatient pain rehab program promoting functional restoration and expanding our interventional pain service, including becoming the first to use radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of chronic pain at CHLA. He continues to advance his pain research, developing new ways to assess and treat children in pain.