Eileen H. Kim, MA, MD is currently Chief Fellow in Critical Care Medicine at Rush University Medical Center. She received her BA in Comparative Literature and Political Science from Columbia University, and worked as financial analyst for Citibank before returning to graduate school to earn her Masters in International Affairs, specializing in International Political Economy. Pursuing an interest in health care policy and education that developed during her graduate school years, she went to Cornell University Medical College, and completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center. Dr. Kim has worked as Teaching Assistant in the Department of Anatomy at Cornell University Medical College, and as Research Assistant in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University as well as the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. In 2004, she had a Poster Presentation at the American Thoracic Society 100th International Conference titled “Respiratory and sleep measures in bariatric surgery patients: assessing desaturation risk.” She is currently working on a research project where she is examining outcomes and clinical characteristics of patients triaged to the medical intensive care unit to enhance quality assurance. During her Fellowship, she plans to look in depth at the question of how to allocate available medical resources in the intensive care setting without compromising patient care and patient autonomy. |
