Center for Global Health and Inter-Disciplinary Research
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Kami Kim, MD
Andor Szentivanyi Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
Chief, Division of Infectious Disease & International Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
Joint Professor, Center for Global Health & Infectious Disease
Joint Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine
Attending Physician, H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Faculty Advisor, USF Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Contact Info
- Office: IDR 335
- Academic Email: kamikim@usf.edu
- Academic Phone: (813) 974-5891
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Education
- Fellowship, Infectious Disease, University of California, 1988
- Intern and Resident, Medical Service, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, 1987
- MD, Medicine, Columbia University, 1980
Biography
Dr. Kami Kim is a physician-scientist who joined the USF faculty in 2017 as a Professor of Internal Medicine (Infectious Diseases and International Medicine) and Professor of Global Health. Her laboratory focuses upon understanding the pathogenesis of toxoplasmosis and malaria, parasitic diseases of global significance. The Toxoplasma projects use a multidisciplinary systems biology approach to understand how the parasite senses and responds to changes in its host. Using a combination of epigenomics, genetics and proteomics, her group is studying how the parasite transitions from the pathogenic tachyzoite form to the persistent bradyzoite form. She is investigating the epigenetic and genetic factors that govern the host response to parasites.