ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2021
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Jiwon Kim, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Cardiovascular Division of the Department of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College where she is the Associate Director of the Adult Echocardiography Laboratory and co-directs the cardiac MRI program. Dr. Kim has a documented track record of academic focus on pathogenesis of adverse cardiovascular remodeling and their associations with clinical outcomes, which is the focus of her K23 (“Advanced CMR Tissue-Based Prediction of Right Ventricular Dysfunction and Revascularization Response”) for which she studies right ventricular remodeling and its physiologic impact on exercise tolerance via cardiopulmonary exercise testing. She has also served as a co-investigator on several R01 applications focused on LV remodeling and foundation sponsored studies for which she has helped to design and implement multicenter echo and MRI imaging protocols. Dr. Kim completed residency in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and fellowships in Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging at Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, respectively. Dr. Kim has published more than 60 peer-reviewed manuscripts and is a frequently invited speaker at the scientific sessions of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and serves on committees for the ASE and SCMR.