Jean Kim, M.D, M.A.

I am a psychiatrist and medical officer at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. I was formerly on the psychiatric faculty at George Washington University, Weill Cornell Medicine, and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. I am also a writer and have published pieces on women's issues and mental health issues for The Daily Beast, The Washington Post, Psychology Today (where I have a blog), Salon, and more. I have also provided expert mental health input to numerous mainstream media publications, radio and TV programs, such as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, Prevention, NPR, SiriusXM, etc. I have an M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins, M.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University, and B.A. in English from Yale. I did my psychiatry training at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NYC. I served as Unit Chief of the Women's Program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Westchester Division from 2006-2010, worked with active duty soldiers at Fort Meade, MD and also with foreign service officers and their families at the State Department. I have also published academic research papers on psychiatric topics in the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. I have a particular interest in the intersection of mental health and broader popular culture issues and current events. My website is jeankimmd.blogspot.com.

Sup-specialties within areas of expertise:

Psychiatry: Psychopharmacology, Women’s Issues/Postpartum, Cross-Cultural Issues (Asian-American), Anxiety/Mood Disorders, Geriatric Disorders/Dementia, Neuropsychiatric Disorders, PTSD/Military Mental Health Issues, Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Issues (Also in Media/Entertainment/Politics)

Medicine: Medical Training Issues, Humanities in Medicine, Medical Care Delivery Issues, Narrative Medicine

Follow her @jeankimmd.