12.14.21
Dr. Brian S. Kim, a top researcher studying itch and inflammatory skin conditions, will join Mount Sinai Health System as director of the newly established Mark Lebwohl Center for Neuroinflammation and Sensation.
Dr. Kim will also be vice chair of research of the Kimberly and Eric J. Waldman Department of Dermatology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and site chair of dermatology at Mount Sinai West and Mount Sinai Morningside, effective Jan. 1.
Dr. Kim’s research is rooted in understanding the regulatory mechanisms that control neuroimmune interactions at the skin barrier surface and examining how immune responses interface with the sensory nervous system to regulate inflammation, sensation, and immunity. At Mount Sinai, he will work alongside Dr. Emma Guttman-Yassky, the Waldman professor and system chair of dermatology, to elevate the Department of Dermatology’s research profile by expanding federally-funded research and clinical trials and recruiting high-caliber research faculty and physician-scientists.
The Mark Lebwohl Center for Neuroinflammation and Sensation will advance multidisciplinary research, bringing together skin biology, immunology, and neuroscience. By leveraging its influential scientific advances, coupled with outstanding clinical expertise, the state-of-the-art research center will provide world-class clinical care for patients with chronic itch and other sensory disorders. The ultimate goal is to bring therapeutic innovations through fundamental new science and cutting-edge clinical trials towards highly unmet sensory and neuroinflammatory disorders.
Kim is currently the co-director, Center for the Study of Itch and Sensory Disorders, and associate professor of medicine, anesthesiology, and pathology and immunology, at Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, in St. Louis. He earned his doctor of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine.
