Brian Dongha Kim, MD

Brian Kim MD provides neurologic care at Mount Sinai Queens and Elmhurst Hospital. He serves as an assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine and the assistant program director for the Neurology Cerebrovascular Disease – Stroke Fellowship in the Department of Neurology. His clinical focus is on primary and secondary prevention of ischemic and hemorrhagic strokes, cervical and intracranial vascular diseases, and post stroke care. His research focus has revolved around optimizing pre-hospital stroke triage in the greater New York Area and improving times to evaluation and mechanical thrombectomy for large vessel occlusion strokes.

He has completed his medical education at Rutgers University – New Jersey Medical School and proceeded to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to complete his Neurology residency and subsequently his Cerebrovascular Disease – Stroke fellowship. He served as a Clinical Instructor in Neurology at Elmhurst Hospital in Elmhurst, Queens. He will continue to serve the greater Queens community by continuing his clinical care for patients through Mount Sinai Queens in Astoria. In addition, he will be serving as the assistant program director for the Cerebrovascular Disease – Stroke Fellowship at Mount Sinai providing mentorship to new clinical fellows.

He has been involved with optimizing pre-hospital stroke triage for patients with suspected large vessel occlusion strokes with numerous abstracts and publications on the subject.