Dr. Eva C. Kim's Credentials

Accepting New Patients

Yes, this doctor is accepting new patients

Biography

Eva Kim, MD, is the Front Range Medical Director for ICON Eyecare, as well as a fellowship-trained Uveitis and Cornea/External Diseases specialist and surgeon who specializes in cataract surgery and refractive surgery. In her thirteen years of experience, Dr. Kim has performed almost 7,000 cataract surgeries with a complication rate of less than 0.4%. After receiving her BS from Stanford University, Dr. Kim went on to obtain her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. She completed her internship in internal medicine at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco. Her ophthalmology residency took place at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary before finishing her clinical fellowship in Uveitis and Cornea/External Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Kim has been with Northern California Kaiser Permanente since 2006 as a comprehensive ophthalmologist, uveitis specialist, and Chief of Service. For seven years she also held the role of Lead Communications Consultant, focusing on elevating the quality of physician to physician and physician to patient communication and experience. For five years straight based on patient feedback, Dr. Kim was ranked 1st out of 258 Ophthalmologists in Northern California. In 2013, Dr. Kim was elected to the Northern California Permanente Medical Group Emerging Leaders Cohort, a two-year leadership and business course led by professors from the most prestigious business schools in the United States. She also has over eight years of medical research and resident teaching experience and is a member of the AAO, ASCRS, and has co-authored many published medical chapters, papers, and posters.

Education

• University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (Grad. 2001)
• Stanford University

Areas of Expertise

• Cornea & Refractive Surgery
• Laser Cataract Surgery
• Uveitis
• Pterygium
• Laser Vision Correction