About
A reconstructive plastic surgeon whose career has been spent on one problem above all others: repairing the face after skin cancer — so that patients can get on with their lives and put the cancer experience behind them.
Training
Dr Kim graduated MBBS with Honours and completed his Master of Surgery in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Sydney, before attaining Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) — the specialist qualification of Australia's plastic surgeons.
His international training centred on New York: a preceptorship at the Institute of Reconstructive Surgery and an exchange to Cornell at the NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, with further experience at the Asan Medical Center in Seoul — one of the world's highest-volume centres for the precise, millimetre-level surgery that defines modern reconstruction. Earlier fellowship training included the Burns Unit at the Children's Hospital at Westmead.
Practice
Dr Kim's practice today is deliberately narrow: skin cancer surgery and reconstruction — with a particular focus on cancers in difficult locations such as the nose, eyelids, ears, lips and scalp — alongside upper eyelid blepharoplasty and breast reduction. He has performed more than 6,000 facial and skin cancer reconstructions, working in close partnership with Sydney's dermatologists and Mohs surgery specialists.
He consults in Sydney CBD and North Sydney, and operates in accredited hospitals across Sydney.
Teaching & contribution
For nine years Dr Kim has taught dermatology registrars for the Australasian College of Dermatologists — training the specialists who diagnose the cancers he reconstructs. He also regularly runs practical suturing and skin cancer procedural workshops for large GP groups. He serves on the Medical Advisory Council of The Skin Hospital, has authored nine peer-reviewed publications, and contributed a chapter to a McGraw-Hill surgical textbook.
Philosophy
Sometimes less is more; at other times, the right answer is whatever it takes to restore the functional and aesthetic outcome to the best of ability. Dr Kim recommends whichever option best serves that outcome — nothing more, nothing less.
It is a completely normal response to feel anxious and apprehensive about having skin cancer — especially on your face. All options are carefully discussed with you, and you are involved in every step of the decision-making process, with the utmost compassion.
Patients meet the same surgeon at every visit — consultation, operation and every follow-up until the scar has matured.
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Next step
Consultations in Sydney CBD and North Sydney. Referrals from GPs, dermatologists and Mohs surgery specialists welcome. Phone 1300 911 151.
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