Alex Kim
Captain, Army
Education
Adult Neurology Residency, National Capital Consortium, 2024Medical Internship, National Capital Consortium, 2021
M.D. Penn State College of Medicine, 2020
B.A. Chemistry, Cum Laude, Franklin & Marshall College, 2016
Biography
Dr. Kim graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA in 2016 with a degree in Chemistry-Biochemistry, cum laude. His capstone research focus was on cation exchange of semi-conductive nanoparticles. He taught general and organic chemistry as a peer instructor and worked as a lab technician for the department of chemistry.In 2016, he attended the Penn State College of Medicine in Hershey, PA on the Army Health Professions Scholarship Program. Upon completion of his medical degree in 2020, he was directly commissioned as a Captain in the United States Army and completed medical internship and residency in Neurology at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. During residency, he completed the J. Kiffin Penry Epilepsy Mini-Fellowship Program at Winston Salem, NC in 2023. He graduated residency training and became ABPN board certified in general neurology in 2024.
He was assigned to Womack Army Medical Center after graduation, where he assumed the role of service chief of neurology within the Department of Medicine on February 2025. He is a faculty member of GME, directly training, supervising, and providing structured didactics for residents within internal medicine, family medicine, and IPAP trainees.
Career Highlights: Positions, Projects, Deployements, Awards and Additional Publications
John M. Hallenbeck Award for Neurology Resident of the Year, June 2024
Joint Service Commendation Medal, June 2024
Representative Bibliography
Kim A, Micci L, Micci T, Lee AM. New Focal Epileptogenesis Following Electroconvulsive Therapy: A Case Report and Literature Review. Mil Med. 2025 Nov 1;190(11-12):e2648-e2651. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usaf106. PMID: 40173024.
Ma Y, Kaminski M, Kim A. Surgical treatment of epileptic encephalopathy with spike-and-wave activation in sleep: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Seizure: European Journal of Epilepsy. 2024 Jul; 119, 78-83. PMID: 38820673
Grant L, Kim A, Beeler M, Bresner J. A case of treatment-refractory paraneoplastic polymyalgia rheumatica that improved after tumor resection: Polymyalgia rheumatica and papillary thyroid carcinoma. RRNMF Neuromuscular Journal. 2024; 5, 3. DOI:10.17161/rrnmf.v5i3.21364
Kim A, Subramanian M, Venkiteswaran K, Grigson PS, Subramanian T. Investigation of the effect of varying cocaine dosage and RPEC transplantation on astroglial proliferation in cocaine self-administering rats. Poster presentation. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, Oct 2019.
Venkiteswaran K, Subramanian M, Cayton T, Kim A, Grigson PS, Subramanian T. Dopaminergic grafts prevent risk of secondary parkinsonism in cocaine self-administering rats. Philadelphia, PA: American Academy of Neurology, May 2019.
Kim A, Cayton T, Subramanian T, Grigson PS, Venkiteswaran K. Human embryonic retinal pigment epithelial cell (hRPEC) grafts provide immunomodulation of the host microenvironment through secreted cytokines. Poster abstract. Clearwater Beach, FL: American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair, April 2019.
Venkiteswaran K, Subramanian M, Cayton T, Kim A, Grigson PS, Subramanian T. Chronic high exposure to cocaine results in degeneration of VTA dopaminergic neurons. Poster presentation. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, Nov 2018.