Jaehwan Kim, M.D., Ph.D.

Clinical Interest

Dr. Kim is a board-certified dermatologist in both the United States and South Korea. He has completed both M.D. and Ph.D. degrees, four years of dermatology residency training and one year of medical dermatology fellowship at Korea University College of Medicine/Korea University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea. After additional one year of autoimmune blistering disease research fellowship at St George Hospital, Sydney, Australia, he has undertaken 3 years of full-time training in translational research through KL2 Clinical Scholars master’s degree program at the Rockefeller University, New York. Since American Board of Dermatology does not recognize foreign dermatology board certification, he elected to redo the dermatology residency training in the United States. He completed one year of general surgery residency training, and followed by his second dermatology residency training, both completed at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY. As a physician-scientist, Dr. Kim’s interest is translational research in dermatology with a special focus on psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa.

Research/Academic Interests

Education

M.D., Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 2003
Ph.D., Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 2012
M.S., The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 2016

Residency: Dermatology, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea 2007-2011
Residency: Dermatology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New Yok, NY 2017-2020

Board Certification: Korean Board of Dermatology, Board Certified, 2011
Board Certification: American Board of Dermatology, Board Certified, 2020

Selected Recent Peer-reviewed Publications:

Jaehwan Kim, Jongmi Lee, Jason E. Hawkes, Xuan Li, Norma Kunjravia, Darshna Rambhia, Inna Cueto, Ariana Moreno, Hong Hur, Sandra Garcet, Wei Zhou, Junyue Cao, James G. Krueger. "Secukinumab improves mild-to-moderate psoriasis: a randomized, placebo-controlled exploratory clinical trial." Journal of American Academy of Dermatology 2023; 88(2):428-430. PMID: 35551962

Jaehwan Kim, Jongmi Lee, Hyun Je Kim, Emma Guttman-Yassky, Chaim Putterman, James G. Krueger. "Single-cell transcriptomics applied to emigrating cells from psoriasis elucidate pathogenic vs. regulatory immune cell subsets." Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2021;148(5):1281-1292. PMID: 33932468; PMCID: PMC8553817.

Jaehwan Kim, Jongmi Lee, Juana Gonzalez, Judilyn Fuentes-Duculan, Sandra Garcet,  James G. Krueger. "Proportion of CD4⁺ CD49b⁺ LAG-3⁺ type 1 regulatory T cells in the blood of psoriasis patients inversely correlates with psoriasis area and severity index." Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2018; 138(12):2669-2672. PMID: 29890167

Jaehwan Kim, Lewis Tomalin, Julie Lee, Lori J. Fitz, Gabriel Berstein, Joel Correa­da Rosa, Sandra Garcet, Michelle A. Lowes, Hernan Valdez, Robert Wolk, Mayte Suarez­Farinas, James G. Krueger. "Reduction of inflammatory and cardiovascular proteins in the blood of psoriasis patients; differential responses between tofacitinib and etanercept after 4 weeks of treatment." Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2018; 138(2):273-281. PMID: 28927890

Jaehwan Kim, James G. Krueger. "Highly Effective New Treatments for Psoriasis Target the IL-23/Type 17 T Cell Autoimmune Axis." Annual Review of Medicine 2017; 68:20.1-20.15. PMID: 27686018

Jaehwan Kim, Robert Bissonnette, Jongmi Lee, Joel Correa da Rosa, Mayte Suárez-Fariñas, Michelle A. Lowes, James G. Krueger. "The spectrum of mild-to-severe psoriasis vulgaris is defined by a common activation of IL-17 pathway genes, but with key differences in immune regulatory genes." Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2016; 136(11): 2173-2182. PMID: 27185339

Jaehwan Kim, Dong Joo Kim, Francesca S. Ortenzio, Lynn Dare, Christine Frank, Rhonda G. Kost, Michelle A. Lowes. "Patients With Psoriasis and Personalized Trade-offs in Treatment Decisions—Lessons Learned From Focus Groups." JAMA Dermatology 2016; 152(6): 720-722. PMID: 27028481

Jaehwan Kim, Chil-Hwan Oh, Jiehyun Jeon, Yoosang Baek, Jaewoo Ahn, Dong Joo Kim, Hyun-Soo Lee, Joel Correa da Rosa, Mayte Suárez-Fariñas, Michelle A. Lowes, James G. Krueger. "Molecular Phenotyping Small (Asian) versus Large (Western) Plaque Psoriasis Shows Common Activation of IL-17 Pathway Genes, but Different Regulatory Gene Sets." Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2016; 136(1):161-172. PMID: 26763436 PMCID: PMC4731034