Faculty - Soo-Jeong Kim, M.D.
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Soo-Jeong Kim, M.D. |
Dr. Soo-Jeong Kim, board certified in general psychiatry and in child and adolescent psychiatry, is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at University of Florida. Dr. Kim graduated from Seoul National University College of Medicine and completed her residency program in general psychiatry at Seoul National University. Dr. Kim received postdoctoral training studying molecular genetic bases of childhood-onset psychiatric disorders with Dr. Edwin Cook at University of Chicago. Subsequently, Dr. Kim completed residency and the first year of child fellowship at University of Chicago, and the second year of fellowship at University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Kim received Daniel X. Freedman’s Fellowship during her postdoctoral training. She also received Chairman’s award from the Department of Psychiatry at University of Chicago, International Medical Graduate (IMG) Mentorship Program Fellowship from American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training (AADPRT), and APA/Lilly Research Award from American Psychiatric Association (APA) during her residency and fellowship training.
Dr. Kim’s major clinical interest is focused on comprehensive phenotypic assessment and treatment of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Dr. Kim is also interested in assessment and treatment of maladaptive repetitive behaviors among individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). Dr. Kim works with trainees and staffs from the Center for Autism and Related Disability (CARD) office in her clinics to provide children with developmental disorders comprehensive evaluation and medical treatment planning.
Research and Scholarly Interests:
Dr. Kim’s main research effort has been in the area of molecular genetic bases of neurodevelopmental genetic disorders, such as ASD and PWS. In relation to her research interests, Dr. Kim obtained the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Affective Disorders (NARSAD) Young Investigator Award (2007) and Prader-Willi Syndrome Association in USA (PWSA-USA) Pilot Research Award (2008). Most recently, she obtained two grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) including a R03 small grant (2008) and a K23 Career Development Award (2009) for her research focus on common genetic mechanism for restricted repetitive behavior (RRB) across ASD and PWS. In order to further develop her research programs, Dr. Kim identified Drs. Mark Lewis (expert in RRB and animal model), Daniel Driscoll (expert in PWS and genomic imprinting) and Edwin Cook (expert in ASD and molecular genetics) as her mentors. Her current studies have focused on detailed phenotypic assessments and genotyping to find common phenotype-genotype correlations across ASDs and PWS.
Dr. Kim and her research team are actively recruiting participants for her funded and IRB approved studies, including autism trio study (NARSAD and K23 projects), autism mail survey study (R03 project), and PWS genetic studies (PWSA-USA and K23 projects). Through her research programs, Dr. Kim hopes to educate select undergraduate and graduate students in basic principles of laboratory and translational research, as well as the most comprehensive phenotypic assessment of ASD. Dr. Kim is also a faculty supervisor for Emily Kuch, M.Ed., a doctoral student in School Psychology for her dissertation research on relationship between pragmatic language skills and emotional outcome. Other members of Dr. Kim’s program include Annette Zaytoun, B.S., a Senior Biological Scientist, Gregory Valcante, Ph.D., Director of Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD), Susan Craft, B.A., a doctoral student in School Psychology, and Raquel Silva, an undergraduate student. Dr. Kim’s research office will gladly answer any questions regarding her research programs (e.g., inclusion/exclusion criteria, benefits or risks of studies, etc.). Please contact her research office at 352-392-7045 or kimresearch@psychiatry.ufl.edu for referrals or inquiries.
Educational Interests and Accomplishments:
Dr. Kim’s educational efforts have mainly focused on the division of child and adolescent psychiatry program and on her research graduate and undergraduate students. Dr. Kim provides individual supervision to child fellows, and provides clinical teaching in her role as clinic attending. Dr. Kim has a lecture series on autism spectrum disorders and psychiatric genetics for general residents, child fellows and rotating medical students (clerkship).
Dr. Kim provides on-call service as a resident backup attending and weekend Vista Child Inpatient Unit attending. She regularly interviews child fellow candidates for her division. Dr. Kim is currently enrolled in the Advanced Postgraduate Program in Clinical Investigation (APPCI) pursuing master’s degree. Dr. Kim also serves as a guest reviewer for the journals such as American Journal of Medical Genetics, Autism Research, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Genetic Testing, etc.
Soo-Jeong Kim and Edwin H. Cook, Jr. (2000). Novel de novo nonsense mutation of MeCP2 in a patient with Rett syndrome. Human Mutation, 15(4): 382-383.
Soo-Jeong Kim, Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, Gregory L. Hanna, David Gonen, Bennett L. Leventhal and Edwin H. Cook, Jr. (2000). Mutation screening of human 5-HT2B receptor gene in early-onset obsessive-compulsive disorder. Mol. Cell. Probes, 14(1): 47-52.
Soo-Jeong Kim, David Gonen, Gregory L. Hanna, Bennett L. Leventhal and Edwin H. Cook, Jr. (2000). Deletion polymorphism in the coding region of the human NESP55 alternative transcript of GNAS1. Mol Cell Probes, 14(3): 191-194.
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, Soo-Jeong Kim, David Gonen, Gregory L. Hanna, Bennett L. Leventhal, Edwin H. Cook, Jr. (2001). Genomic Organization of the SLC1A1/EAAC1 Gene and Mutation Screening in Early-Onset Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Mol. Psychiatry, 6: 160-167.
Laura B. K. Herzing, Soo-Jeong Kim, Edwin H. Cook, Jr., and David H. Ledbetter (2001). The human aminophospholipid-transporting ATPase gene ATP10C maps adjacent to UBE3A and exhibits similar imprinted expression. Am. J. Hum. Genet., 68: 1501-1505.
Soo-Jeong Kim, Laura B. Herzing, Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, C. Lord, R. Courchensne, Bennett L. Leventhal, David H. Ledbetter, E. Courchesne, and Edwin H. Cook Jr. (2002). Mutation screening and transmission disequilibrium study of ATP10C in autism. Am. J. Med. Genet., 114(2):137-143.
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, Soo-Jeong Kim, C. Lord, R. Courchesne, N. Akshoomoff, Bennett L. Leventhal, E. Courchesne, and Edwin H. Cook Jr. (2002). Transmission disequilibrium studies of the serotonin 5-HT2A receptor gene (HTR2A) in autism. Am. J. Med. Genet., 114(3): 277-283.
Bernie Devlin, Pamela Bennett, Edwin H. Cook, Jr., Geraldine Dawson, David Gonen, Elena L. Grigorenko, William McMahon, David Pauls, Moyra Smith, M. Anne Spence, the CPEA Genetics Network (Hilary Coon, Janet Lainart, Soo-Jeong Kim, Bennett Leventhal, Catherine Lord, Julienne Escamilla, Robert Abbott, Annette Estes, Jeffrey Munson, Paul Rudell), Gerard D. Schellenberg (2002). No evidence for linkage of liability to autism to HOXA1 in a sample from the CPEA network. Am J Med Genet 114: 667-672
Soo-Jeong Kim, Nancy Cox, R. Courchesne, C. Lord, C. Corsello, N. Akshoomoff, S. Guter, Bennett L. Leventhal, E. Courchesne and Edwin H. Cook Jr. (2002). Transmission disequilibrium mapping at the serotonin transporter gene (SLC6A4) region in autistic disorder. Mol. Psychiatry 7: 278–288.
Soo-Jeong Kim, Larry J. Young, David Gonen, Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele,Rachel Courchesne, Eric Courchesne, Catherine Lord, Bennett L. Leventhal, Edwin H. Cook Jr., Thomas R. Insel (2002). Transmission disequilibrium testing of arginine vasopressin receptor 1A (AVPR1A) polymorphisms in autism. Mol. Psychiatry; 7: 503-507.
Lauren A Weiss, Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, Dina L Newman, Soo-Jeong Kim, Harvey Dytch, Mary Sara McPeek, Suzanne Cheng, Carole Ober, Edwin H. Cook, Jr. and Mark Abney (2004). Genome-wide association study reveals ITGB3 as a QTL for whole blood serotonin. Eur J Hum Genet: 12(11):949-954.
David C. Lott, Soo-Jeong Kim, Edwin H. Cook, Jr., and Harriet de Wit (2005). Dopamine transporter gene associated with diminished subjective response to amphetamine. Neuropsychopharmacology 30(3): 602-609.
Mark A Stein, Irwin D Waldman, Christopher S Sarampote, Karen E Seymour, Adelaide S Robb, Charles Conlon, Soo-Jeong Kim and Edwin H. Cook, Jr. (2005). Dopamine Transporter Genotype and Methylphenidate Dose Response in Children with ADHD. Neuropsychopharmacology 30(7):1374-1382.
Soo-Jeong Kim, Judith Badner, Keun-Ah Cheon, Boong-Nyun Kim, Hee-Jeong Yoo, Se-Joo Kim, Edwin H. Cook, Jr., Bennett L. Leventhal, Young Shin Kim (2005). Family-based association study of the serotonin transporter gene polymorphisms in Korean ADHD trios. Am. J. Med. Genet. B. Neuropsychiatr Genet. 139(1):14-18.
Young Shin Kim, Bennett L. Leventhal, Soo-Jeong Kim, Boong-Nyun Kim, Keun-Ah Cheon, Hee-Jeong Yoo, Se-Joo, Kim, Judith Badner, Edwin H. Cook, Jr. (2005). Family-based association study of DAT1 and DRD4 polymorphism in Korean children with ADHD. Neuroscience Letter 390(3):176-181.
David Lott, Soo-Jeong Kim, Edwin H. Cook, Jr., Harriet de Wit (2006) Serotonin transporter genotype and acute subjective response to amphetamine. Am J Addict. 15(5): 327-335
Camille W. Brune, Soo-Jeong Kim, Jeff Salt, Bennett L. Leventhal, Catherine Lord, Edwin H. Cook, Jr. (2006). 5-HTTLPR Genotype-specific Phenotype in Children and adolescents with Autism. American Journal of Psychiatry 163(12):2148-56.
Sarah Cross, Soo-Jeong Kim, Lauren A. Weiss, Ryan J. Delahanty, James S. Sutcliffe, Bennett L. Leventhal, Edwin H. Cook, Jr., Jeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele (2008). Molecular genetics of the platelet serotonin system in first-degree relatives of patients with autism. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2008 Jan;33(2):353-60.
Soo-Jeong Kim, Camille W. Brune, Emily O. Kistner, Susan L. Christian, Eric H. Courchesne, Nancy J. Cox, Edwin H. Cook, Jr. (2008). Transmission disequilibrium testing of the chromosome 15q11-q13 region in autism. Am Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2008 147B(7):1116-25
Camille W. Brune, Soo-Jeong Kim, Gregory L. Hanna, Eric Courchesne E, Catherine Lord, Bennett L. Leventhal BL, Edwin H. Cook, Jr. (2008). Family-based association testing of OCD associated SNPs of SLC1A1 in an autism sample. Autism Research 1:2:108-113
Mark H. Lewis and Soo-Jeong Kim (2009). The Pathophysiology of Restricted Repetitive Behavior. J Neurodevelop Disord (in press)