Sucha Kim, MD, FCCP
Board Certifications
Internal Medicine: 1990 Recertified 2001-12/2011
Pulmonary Disease: 1992 Recertified 2002-12/2012
Critical Care Medicine: 1993 Recertified 2004-12/2014
Education
University of Kansas, Bachelor of Arts Biology 1983
University of Kansas Medical Center, Doctor of Medicine 1987
Training
Residency: University of Kansas 1988
Fellowship: University of Michigan 1993
Professional Experience and Appointments
Board Member, Good Samaritan Medical Practice Association, 2003-Present
Chairman, Critical Care Committee, Good Samaritan Hospital 2001-Present
Partner in Private Practice, California Lung Associates 1995-Present
Emergency Room Physician, Heritage Hospital Michigan 1994-1995
Lecturer, Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center 1993-1994
Bibliography, Abstracts, Panel Discussions
Fishmann, A.J., Brooks, L.R., Kim, S, Long, W., Dorr, L.D., “Prevention of Thrombo-embolic Disease in Minimally Invasive Total Hip Arthroplasty with Acetylsalicyclic Acid is Safe, Cost-efficient and Effective.” American College of Chest Physicians, Poster Presented at CHEST 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 2010
Curtis JL, Kim S, Scott PJ, Buechner-Maxwell VA. “Adhesion receptor phenotypes of pulmonary CD4+ T cells during the pulmonary immune response to sheep erythrocytes”. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology; May 1995.
Kim S, Rashlan MH, Fields KL, Stoolman LM, and Curtis JL. Expression of endothelial cell adhesion molecules in the lungs during a murine pulmonary immune response. Presented to American Thoracic Society, Boston, MA; May 22, 1994.
Seitzman GD, Scott PJ, Milik AM, Kim S, and Curtis JL. Mouse Lung Lymphocytes proliferate minimally during the pulmonary response to Sheep erthrocytes. Presented to the Southern Society for Clinical Research, New Orleans, LA; Feb. 1994.
Kim S, Scott PJ, Curtis JL. Development of an adoptive transfer model to define the role of CD 4+ T cell substes in pulmonary lymphocyte recruitment. Am Rev Respir Dis 147:A12. 1993. Presented to the American Thoracic Society.
Kim S, Scott PJ, Curtis JL. Analysis of the role of CD4+ T cell subsets in pulmonary lymphocyte recruitment by use of adoptive transfer to athymic mice. Presented to the Central Society for Clinical Research, Chicago, IL; I November 6, 1992.
Kim S, Scott PJ, Curtis JL. CD4+ T cell subsets in pulmonary lymphocyte recruitment. Chest 103: 94S, 1993. Presented to the Aspen Lung Conference 35th Annual Meeting: Immunology of Lung; June 1992.
Christensen PJ, Kim S, Simon RH, Toews GB, Paine R. “Differentiation related Expression of ICAM-1 by Rat Alveolar Epithelial Cells”. Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology 1992.