Frailty as an Effect Modifier in Randomized Controlled Trials: A Systematic Review.
Yao A, Gao L, Zhang J, Cheng JM, Kim DH.
J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Apr 09. PMID: 38592606
Dr. Kim is a geriatrician, researcher, and mentor. He believes we can provide better health care to older people by incorporating frailty into clinical care, research, and population health.
Toward this mission, Dr. Kim founded the Frailty Research Program at the Marcus Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife. Funded by grants from the National Institute on Aging, Harvard Catalyst, Medical Foundation, and John A. Hartford Foundation, his research aims to enable clinicians and health care systems to deliver clinical care and population health management tailored to a person’s frailty level.
As a Beeson scholar, Dr. Kim developed a claims-based frailty index algorithm, which allows estimation of the frailty level from administrative claims data such as Medicare data. This algorithm is widely used by epidemiologists and health services researchers to measure frailty on a population scale. He is a member of the Project Advisory Task Force for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the Department of Health and Human Services for "Validating and Expanding Claims-Based Algorithms of Frailty and Functional Disability for Value-Based Care and Payment." Dr. Kim’s current research uses this algorithm to evaluate the benefits and harms of drug therapies, surgical procedures, and care models by different levels of frailty.
To translate frailty into clinical practice, Dr. Kim has developed the Senior Health Calculator, an online frailty index calculator, which has been incorporated into the electronic medical records at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Several quality improvement projects have been conducted to improve use of frailty assessment in the care of older adults. Frailty-guided clinical care has become a core part of the fellowship educational curriculum. As a result, frailty assessment is increasingly used for clinical decision-making and conversations about prognosis with patients and their family.
As a geriatrician, Dr. Kim provides preoperative frailty assessment in medically complex patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement in the Senior Health Practice at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Dr. Kim has mentored over 40 people in their early career, including recipients of the National Institutes of Health career development awards. He is a recipient of a K24 Mid-career Investigator Award from the National Institute on Aging. He teaches students and trainees at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Geriatrics Medicine Fellowship, and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He lectures on preoperative frailty assessment in the Harvard Annual Review of Geriatric Medicine course.
Dr. Kim is an associate editor of the Journals of Gerontology Medical Sciences and serves on the American Geriatrics Society Research Methods subcommittee and the editorial board of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. His contribution to the field has been recognized with many awards and honors, including the 2017 American Geriatrics Society Junior Investigator of the Year Award, 2023 American Geriatrics Society Thomas and Catherine Yoshikawa Outstanding Scientific Achievement for Clinical Investigation Award, and the election to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2024.
MD, 02/2001, Medicine
Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
MPH, 05/2005, Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
ScD, 05/2014, Epidemiology
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA
06/2008, Internal Medicine
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
06/2010, Geriatric Medicine
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Yao A, Gao L, Zhang J, Cheng JM, Kim DH.
J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Apr 09. PMID: 38592606
Chau A, Kim DH, Sison SDM, Shi SM.
J Aging Health. 2024 Apr 02. 8982643241242927. PMID: 38565230
Sison SDM, Shi SM, Oh G, Jeong S, McCarthy EP, Kim DH.
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2024 Apr 01. PMID: 38557604
Park CM, McCarthy EP, Shi S, Olivieri-Mui B, Jang J, Kim DH.
J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Mar 21. PMID: 38511648
Duchesneau ED, Stürmer T, Kim DH, Reeder-Hayes K, Edwards JK, Faurot KR, Lund JL.
Med Care. 2024 May 01. 62(5):305-313. PMID: 38498870
Lee PA, DuMontier C, Yu W, Ask L, Zhou J, Testa MA, Kim D, Abel G, Travison T, Manor B, Lo OY.
Bioengineering (Basel). 2024 Mar 06. 11(3). PMID: 38534531
Laurentiev J, Kim DH, Mahesri M, Wang KY, Bessette LG, York C, Zakoul H, Lee SB, Zhou L, Lin KJ.
J Med Internet Res. 2024 Feb 13. 26:e47739. PMID: 38349732
Berry SD, Hayes K, Lee Y, Zhang Y, Kim DH, Ko D, Kiel DP, Daielo L, Zhang T, Zullo AR.
J Am Geriatr Soc. 2024 Mar. 72(3):682-692. PMID: 38051600
Htoo PT, Paik JM, Alt E, Kim DH, Wexler DJ, Kim SC, Patorno E.
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2023 12 01. 78(12):2426-2434. PMID: 36866496
Hayes KN, Zhang T, Kim DH, Daiello LA, Lee Y, Kiel DP, Berry SD, Zullo AR.
J Am Heart Assoc. 2023 11 07. 12(21):e029865. PMID: 37929769