Biography

Heakyung Kim, M.D., is a physical medicine and rehabilitation at Children’s Health℠ and a professor at UT Southwestern. She specializes in pediatric rehabilitation medicine, brain injury, cerebral palsy (CP), and botulinum toxin injections for spasticity and drooling management.

Dr. Kim earned her medical degree at Ewha Womans University College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea and completed both her residency in rehabilitation and fellowship in neuroscience in rehabilitation medicine at Yonsei University Health System in Seoul. She later completed a combined residency in pediatrics and physical medicine and rehabilitation at Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Dr. Kim has been recognized as one of America’s Top Physicians since 2003. She is also a New York Times Super Doctor, named by Castle Connolly as among the Exceptional Women in Medicine, and listed by American Registry as the Best of the Best. She has received four Teacher of the Year awards.

Biography