Choll W. Kim, MD, PhD
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Orthopaedic SurgeryUniversity of California San DiegoDr. Choll Kim graduated cum laude from Harvard Medical School and completed his fellowship training in complex spine surgery at the Mayo Clinic. In addition, he is double-board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and the American Board of Spine Surgery.
He specializes in the field of computer-assisted minimally invasive spine surgery and endoscopic spine surgery. He has trained and continues to train specialists throughout the country on the safe and effective application of these technologies.
Dr. Kim is the founder and past-president of the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (SMISS), the founder of Minimally Invasive Spine Centers of Excellence (MIS-COE), the chair of the MIS Committee for the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery (ISASS), the director of the Advanced Spine & Joint Institute at Alvarado Hospital and an Associate Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of California, San Diego.
