Heakyung Kim, MD

Professor
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
New York, New York

Heakyung Kim, MD serves as Vice Chair and A. David Gurewitsch Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine of Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center, Director of Pediatric PM&R at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and at Blythedale Children’s Hospital, New York, USA. She is founding director of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine fellowship program at New York Presbyterian Hospital. She was trained at the Department of Rehabilitation of UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School/Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation. She is a board certified physiatrist and holds subspecialty boards in Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine and Brain Injury Medicine. She specializes in instrument guided single event multilevel chemoneurolysis (SEMLC) with botulinum toxin and phenol/alcohol injections, botulinum toxin injections to salivary glands, and pain management in children and adults with cerebral palsy. Her research interests focus on spasticity management and robotic therapy , energy consumption of people with spastic cerebral palsy and drooling management with botulinum toxin. Dr. Kim has been recognized as one of “America’s Top Doctors” by New York Magazine and Castle Connolly as well as a “Super Doctor” by New York Times. She is nationally and internationally regarded as an expert in pediatric rehabilitation medicine, especially spasticity management and drooling management with botulinum toxin as well as ultrasound guided toxin injections.

Presentation(s):

• Pediatric Rehabilitation: 2022 Community Session

  Thursday, October 13, 2022
  7:00 PM – 10:00 PM ET

  AiCME (Honorarium)Allergan (Consultant/Advisory Board)Catalyst (Honorarium)ipsen (Consultant/Advisory Board, Research Grant includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received)Merz (Consultant/Advisory Board)

• STEP One: Ultrasound Clinical Applications of the Extremities Course (Day 1)

  Tuesday, October 18, 2022
  8:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET

  AiCME (Honorarium)Allergan (Consultant/Advisory Board)Catalyst (Honorarium)ipsen (Consultant/Advisory Board, Research Grant includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received)Merz (Consultant/Advisory Board)

• STEP One: Ultrasound Clinical Applications of the Extremities Course (Day 2)

  Wednesday, October 19, 2022
  8:00 AM – 5:00 PM ET

  AiCME (Honorarium)Allergan (Consultant/Advisory Board)Catalyst (Honorarium)ipsen (Consultant/Advisory Board, Research Grant includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received)Merz (Consultant/Advisory Board)

• Skills Lab: Ultrasound Guided Chemodenervation Procedures for the Upper and Lower Limbs

  Thursday, October 20, 2022
  2:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET

  AiCME (Honorarium)Allergan (Consultant/Advisory Board)Catalyst (Honorarium)ipsen (Consultant/Advisory Board, Research Grant includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received)Merz (Consultant/Advisory Board)

• Spasticity: From Identification to Intervention

  Friday, October 21, 2022
  8:00 AM – 9:15 AM ET

  AiCME (Honorarium)Allergan (Consultant/Advisory Board)Catalyst (Honorarium)ipsen (Consultant/Advisory Board, Research Grant includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received)Merz (Consultant/Advisory Board)

• Skills Lab: Ultrasound-guided Extremity Nerve Blocks with Alcohol and Botulinum Toxin Injections in Head, Neck and Paraspinal Muscles for Spasticity Management

  Friday, October 21, 2022
  2:00 PM – 5:00 PM ET

  AiCME (Honorarium)Allergan (Consultant/Advisory Board)Catalyst (Honorarium)ipsen (Consultant/Advisory Board, Research Grant includes principal investigator, collaborator or consultant and pending grants as well as grants already received)Merz (Consultant/Advisory Board)