Susie Kim

Dr. Susie Kim graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude in Chemistry from Harvard College. She received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and completed her residency in diagnostic radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital.After stepping aside from medicine for two decades to raise her children, Dr. Kim is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medical Education at the Keck School of Medicine. She teaches courses through the Minors in Healthcare Studies and aspires to inculcate the next generation of future physicians through a holistic lens. Dr. Kim is the faculty advisor to USC’s chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED), a premed honors society, as well as the Everyday Responders Project. She also serves on the selection committee for the Global Scholars Prize for USC undergraduates. Outside of Keck, Dr. Kim is an alumni interviewer for Harvard College and has helped high school students in underserved communities with the college application process. This 2024-2025 academic year, she serves as the President of the Keck School of Medicine Faculty Council.

• MIT: Lemelson-MIT Inventeam Teaching Award, 2014
• Harvard College: summa cum laude in Chemistry, 1989
• Harvard College: Phi Beta Kappa, 1989
• Harvard College: John Harvard Scholarship, 1985-1999

• Cytotoxic potential of monoalkylation products between mitomycins and DNA: Studies of decarbamoyl mitomycin C in wild-type and repair-deficient cell lines. Oncology Research. 1995; 7(1):39-47.
• Stereochemistry of the visual cycle. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 1989; 111(2):793-795.