Anthony Kim, MD
Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

Dr. Kim’s research is focused on developing cost-effective approaches to improve the diagnosis, management, and prevention of cerebrovascular disease. His work employs both established methods of epidemiology, outcomes research, and economic modeling as well as emerging approaches such as the use of mobile and internet technologies in order to address key challenges in the development, evaluation, dissemination, and implementation of evidence-based care for patients with cerebrovascular disease. Dr. Kim holds dual undergraduate degrees from Brown University and a medical degree from UCSF. He completed his clinical training including medicine internship, neurology residency, and vascular neurology fellowship at UCSF as well. He also holds a Master's Degree in Clinical Research from the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and is Director of Consultation Services for the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and Interim Faculty Advisor for the CTSI Pilot Grant Awards Program.

• "My Hand Is Different": Altered Body Perception in Stroke Survivors with Chronic Pain.
  Brain sciences 2022 Haslam BS, Butler DS, Moseley GL, Kim AS, Carey LM
• Controversies in Stroke: Should Patients With Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source Undergo Intensive Heart Rhythm Monitoring With an Implantable Loop Recorder?
  Stroke 2022 Kim AS, Kamel H, Bernstein RA, Manchanda M, Caprio FZ
• Optimizing the Time Course of Risks and Benefits of Acute Dual Antiplatelet Therapy for Stroke Prevention.
  JAMA neurology 2022 Kim AS
• Infarct on Brain Imaging, Subsequent Ischemic Stroke, and Clopidogrel-Aspirin Efficacy: A Post Hoc Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA neurology 2022 Rostanski SK, Kvernland A, Liberman AL, de Havenon A, Henninger N, Mac Grory B, Kim AS, Easton JD, Johnston SC, Yaghi S
• Evidence for the Ethics of Incentivizing Clinical Trial Enrollment?
  JAMA internal medicine 2021 Ngo S, Kim AS, Chiong W
• Antiplatelet Use and Ischemic Stroke Risk in Minor Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack: A Post Hoc Analysis of the POINT Trial.
  Stroke 2021 Anadani M, de Havenon A, Henninger N, Kuohn L, Mac Grory B, Furie KL, Kim AS, Easton JD, Johnston SC, Yaghi S
• Sudden Cardiac Death and Myocardial Fibrosis, Determined by Autopsy, in Persons with HIV.
  The New England journal of medicine 2021 Tseng ZH, Moffatt E, Kim A, Vittinghoff E, Ursell P, Connolly A, Olgin JE, Wong JK, Hsue PY
• Evaluation of Systolic Blood Pressure, Use of Aspirin and Clopidogrel, and Stroke Recurrence in the Platelet-Oriented Inhibition in New TIA and Minor Ischemic Stroke Trial.
  JAMA network open 2021 de Havenon A, Johnston SC, Easton JD, Kim AS, Sheth KN, Lansberg M, Tirschwell D, Mistry E, Yaghi S
• A Comparison of Time to Treatment between an Emergency Department Focused Stroke Protocol and Mobile Stroke Units.
  Prehospital and disaster medicine 2021 Madhok DY, Mangasarian PH, Keenan KJ, Hemphill JC, Brown JF, Kim AS
• Carotid Stenosis and Recurrent Ischemic Stroke: A Post-Hoc Analysis of the POINT Trial.
  Stroke 2021 Yaghi S, de Havenon A, Rostanski S, Kvernland A, Mac Grory B, Furie KL, Kim AS, Easton JD, Johnston SC, Henninger N
• Early Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders and Outcome After Intracerebral Hemorrhage.
  Neurocritical care 2021 Madhok DY, Vitt JR, MacIsaac D, Hsia RY, Kim AS, Hemphill JC
• Effect of Transport Time on the Use of Reperfusion Therapy for Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke in Korea.
  Journal of Korean medical science 2021 Choi JC, Kim JG, Kang CH, Bae HJ, Kang J, Lee SJ, Park JM, Park TH, Cho YJ, Lee KB, Lee J, Kim DE, Cha JK, Kim JT, Lee BC, Lee JS, Kim AS
• Temporal Trends in Stroke-Related Memory Change: Results From a US National Cohort 1998-2016.
  Stroke 2021 Eng CW, Mayeda ER, Gilsanz P, Whitmer RA, Kim AS, Glymour MM
• Chronic pain following stroke: Current treatment and perceived effect.
  Disability and health journal 2020 Haslam BS, Butler DS, Kim AS, Carey LM
• Efficacy of Clopidogrel for Prevention of Stroke Based on CYP2C19 Allele Status in the POINT Trial.
  Stroke 2020 Meschia JF, Walton RL, Farrugia LP, Ross OA, Elm JJ, Farrant M, Meurer WJ, Lindblad AS, Barsan W, Ching M, Gentile N, Ross M, Nahab F, Easton JD, Kim AS, Zurita KG, Cucchiara B, Johnston SC
• Medical Management for Secondary Stroke Prevention.
  Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.) 2020 Kim AS
• Catastrophic stroke burden in a patient with uncontrolled psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis: a case report.
  BMC neurology 2020 Fan JM, Solomon DA, López GY, Hofmann JW, Colorado RA, Kim AS, Meisel K, Halabi C
• Prevention of stroke in people living with HIV.
  Progress in cardiovascular diseases 2020 Nguyen I, Kim AS, Chow FC
• Outcomes Associated With Clopidogrel-Aspirin Use in Minor Stroke or Transient Ischemic Attack: A Pooled Analysis of Clopidogrel in High-Risk Patients With Acute Non-Disabling Cerebrovascular Events (CHANCE) and Platelet-Oriented Inhibition in New TIA and Minor Ischemic Stroke (POINT) Trials.
  JAMA neurology 2019 Pan Y, Elm JJ, Li H, Easton JD, Wang Y, Farrant M, Meng X, Kim AS, Zhao X, Meurer WJ, Liu L, Dietrich D, Wang Y, Johnston SC
• Assessment of the End Point Adjudication Process on the Results of the Platelet-Oriented Inhibition in New TIA and Minor Ischemic Stroke (POINT) Trial: A Secondary Analysis.
  JAMA network open 2019 Farrant M, Easton JD, Adelman EE, Cucchiara BL, Barsan WG, Tillman HJ, Elm JJ, Kim AS, Lindblad AS, Palesch YY, Zhao W, Pauls K, Walsh KB, Martí-Fàbregas J, Bernstein RA, Johnston SC
• First-Line Use of Contact Aspiration or Stent Retriever Thrombectomy for Large Vessel Occlusion Stroke.
  Stroke 2019 Turc G, Kim AS
• Risk for Major Hemorrhages in Patients Receiving Clopidogrel and Aspirin Compared With Aspirin Alone After Transient Ischemic Attack or Minor Ischemic Stroke: A Secondary Analysis of the POINT Randomized Clinical Trial.
  JAMA neurology 2019 Tillman H, Johnston SC, Farrant M, Barsan W, Elm JJ, Kim AS, Lindblad AS, Palesch YY, Easton JD
• Refining the World Health Organization Definition: Predicting Autopsy-Defined Sudden Arrhythmic Deaths Among Presumed Sudden Cardiac Deaths in the POST SCD Study.
  Circulation. Arrhythmia and electrophysiology 2019 Tseng ZH, Salazar JW, Olgin JE, Ursell PC, Kim AS, Bedigian A, Probert J, Hart AP, Moffatt E, Vittinghoff E
• Time Course for Benefit and Risk of Clopidogrel and Aspirin After Acute Transient Ischemic Attack and Minor Ischemic Stroke.
  Circulation 2019 Johnston SC, Elm JJ, Easton JD, Farrant M, Barsan WG, Kim AS, Lindblad AS, Palesch YY, Zurita KG, Albers GW, Cucchiara BL, Kleindorfer DO, Lutsep HL, Pearson C, Sethi P, Vora N, POINT and Neurological…
• 14th International Symposium on Thrombolysis, Thrombectomy and Acute Stroke Therapy: Proceedings and summary of discussions.
  International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society 2019 Sheth SA, Lopez-Rivera V, Lee S, Savitz SI, Liebeskind DS, Grotta JC, Thrombolysis, Thrombectomy and Acute Stroke Therapy (TTST) group
• Global, regional, and national burden of neurological disorders, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016.
  The Lancet. Neurology 2019 GBD 2016 Neurology Collaborators
• New opportunities to optimize antithrombotic therapy for secondary stroke prevention.
  International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society 2019 Kim AS, Easton JD
• Imaging in neurointerventional stroke treatment: review of the recent trials and what your neurointerventionalist wants to know from emergency radiologists.
  Emergency radiology 2018 Rehani B, Zhang Y, Ammanuel S, Smith W, Gonzalez RG, Cooke DL, Hetts SW, Josephson SA, Kim A, Hemphill JC, Dillon W
• Two-year safety and clinical outcomes in chronic ischemic stroke patients after implantation of modified bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (SB623): a phase 1/2a study.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2018 Steinberg GK, Kondziolka D, Wechsler LR, Lunsford LD, Kim AS, Johnson JN, Bates D, Poggio G, Case C, McGrogan M, Yankee EW, Schwartz NE
• Prospective Countywide Surveillance and Autopsy Characterization of Sudden Cardiac Death: POST SCD Study.
  Circulation 2018 Tseng ZH, Olgin JE, Vittinghoff E, Ursell PC, Kim AS, Sporer K, Yeh C, Colburn B, Clark NM, Khan R, Hart AP, Moffatt E
• Incidence of cardiac fibrosis in SUDEP and control cases.
  Neurology 2018 Devinsky O, Kim A, Friedman D, Bedigian A, Moffatt E, Tseng ZH
• Clopidogrel and Aspirin in Acute Ischemic Stroke and High-Risk TIA.
  The New England journal of medicine 2018 Johnston SC, Easton JD, Farrant M, Barsan W, Conwit RA, Elm JJ, Kim AS, Lindblad AS, Palesch YY, Clinical Research Collaboration, Neurological Emergencies Treatment Trials Network, and the POINT In
• Primary Results of the Multicenter ARISE II Study (Analysis of Revascularization in Ischemic Stroke With EmboTrap).
  Stroke 2018 Zaidat OO, Bozorgchami H, Ribó M, Saver JL, Mattle HP, Chapot R, Narata AP, Francois O, Jadhav AP, Grossberg JA, Riedel CH, Tomasello A, Clark WM, Nordmeyer H, Lin E, Nogueira RG, Yoo AJ, Jovin TG, …
• Author response: Underestimation of sudden deaths among patients with seizures and epilepsy.
  Neurology 2018 Devinsky O, Friedman D, Cheng JY, Moffatt E, Kim A, Tseng ZH
• Smoking cessation and outcome after ischemic stroke or TIA.
  Neurology 2017 Epstein KA, Viscoli CM, Spence JD, Young LH, Inzucchi SE, Gorman M, Gerstenhaber B, Guarino PD, Dixit A, Furie KL, Kernan WN, IRIS Trial Investigators
• Underestimation of sudden deaths among patients with seizures and epilepsy.
  Neurology 2017 Devinsky O, Friedman D, Cheng JY, Moffatt E, Kim A, Tseng ZH
• Neurologic consultation and use of therapeutic hypothermia for cardiac arrest.
  Resuscitation 2017 Guterman EL, Kim AS, Josephson SA
• Before-After Study of an Electronic Order Set for Reversal of Vitamin K Antagonist-Associated Intracerebral Hemorrhage.
  The Neurohospitalist 2017 Vitt JR, Do LV, Shah NH, Fong G, Nguyen NY, Kim AS
• Response by Feldman et al to Letter Regarding Article, "Trends in Recruitment Rates for Acute Stroke Trials, 1990-2014".
  Stroke 2017 Feldman WB, Kim AS, Chiong W
• Aspirin's Benefits Were Previously Underestimated and Are Primarily Accrued in the Acute Setting.
  Stroke 2017 Amarenco P, Kim AS
• Greater Risk of Stroke of Undetermined Etiology in a Contemporary HIV-Infected Cohort Compared with Uninfected Individuals.
  Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2017 Chow FC, Price RW, Hsue PY, Kim AS
• Trends in Recruitment Rates for Acute Stroke Trials, 1990-2014.
  Stroke 2017 Feldman WB, Kim AS, Chiong W
• Stroke risk prediction after transient ischaemic attack.
  The Lancet. Neurology 2016 Kim AS
• Sudden neurologic death masquerading as out-of-hospital sudden cardiac death.
  Neurology 2016 Kim AS, Moffatt E, Ursell PC, Devinsky O, Olgin J, Tseng ZH
• Risk of Stroke after Transient Ischemic Attack or Minor Stroke.
  The New England journal of medicine 2016 Kim AS, Easton JD, Johnston SC
• How Patient Demographics, Imaging, and Beliefs Influence Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator Use: A Survey of North American Neurologists.
  Stroke 2016 Shamy MC, Pugliese M, Meisel K, Rodriguez R, Kim AS, Stahnisch FW, Smith EE
• Clinical Outcomes of Transplanted Modified Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Stroke: A Phase 1/2a Study.
  Stroke 2016 Steinberg GK, Kondziolka D, Wechsler LR, Lunsford LD, Coburn ML, Billigen JB, Kim AS, Johnson JN, Bates D, King B, Case C, McGrogan M, Yankee EW, Schwartz NE
• In reply.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2016 Ballard DW, Huang J, Vinson DR, Reed ME, Kim AS
• When a Single Antiplatelet Agent for Stroke Prevention Is Not Enough: Current Evidence and Future Applications of Dual Antiplatelet Therapy.
  Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine 2016 Yuan K, Kim AS
• Effect of waivers of consent on recruitment in acute stroke trials: A systematic review.
  Neurology 2016 Feldman WB, Kim AS, Josephson SA, Lowenstein DH, Chiong W
• Emergency Physician Attitudes, Preferences, and Risk Tolerance for Stroke as a Potential Cause of Dizziness Symptoms.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2015 Kene MV, Ballard DW, Vinson DR, Rauchwerger AS, Iskin HR, Kim AS
• Global Stroke Belt: Geographic Variation in Stroke Burden Worldwide.
  Stroke 2015 Kim AS, Cahill E, Cheng NT
• Implementation of Computerized Physician Order Entry Is Associated With Increased Thrombolytic Administration for Emergency Department Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2015 Ballard DW, Kim AS, Huang J, Park DK, Kene MV, Chettipally UK, Iskin HR, Hsu J, Vinson DR, Mark DG, Reed ME, KP CREST Network Investigators
• Prochlorperazine-Induced Hemidystonia Mimicking Acute Stroke.
  The western journal of emergency medicine 2015 Coralic Z, Kim AS, Vinson DR
• Intravenous Thrombolysis for Acute Ischemic Stroke Within 3 Hours Versus Between 3 and 4.5 Hours of Symptom Onset.
  The Neurohospitalist 2015 Cheng NT, Kim AS
• Lesion location, stability, and pretreatment management: factors affecting outcomes of endovascular treatment for vertebrobasilar atherosclerosis.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2015 Alexander MD, Rebhun JM, Hetts SW, Kim AS, Nelson J, Kim H, Amans MR, Settecase F, Dowd CF, Halbach VV, Higashida RT, Cooke DL
• Regional availability of mechanical embolectomy for acute ischemic stroke in California, 2009 to 2010.
  Stroke 2015 Choi JC, Hsia RY, Kim AS
• Early outcomes after carotid artery stenting compared with endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid stenosis.
  Stroke 2014 Choi JC, Johnston SC, Kim AS
• Effect of CD4+ cell count and viral suppression on risk of ischemic stroke in HIV infection.
  AIDS (London, England) 2014 Chow FC, Bacchetti P, Kim AS, Price RW, Hsue PY
• Simple text-messaging intervention is associated with improved door-to-needle times for acute ischemic stroke.
  Stroke 2014 Burnett MM, Zimmermann L, Coralic Z, Quon T, Whetstone W, Kim AS
• Inability to consent does not diminish the desirability of stroke thrombolysis.
  Annals of neurology 2014 Chiong W, Kim AS, Huang IA, Farahany NA, Josephson SA
• Evaluation and prevention of cardioembolic stroke.
  Continuum (Minneapolis, Minn.) 2014 Kim AS
• Testing the presumption of consent to emergency treatment for acute ischemic stroke.
  JAMA 2014 Chiong W, Kim AS, Huang IA, Farahany NA, Josephson SA
• Temporal and geographic trends in the global stroke epidemic.
  Stroke 2013 Kim AS, Johnston SC
• Burden of intracranial steno-occlusive lesions on initial computed tomography angiography predicts poor outcome in patients with acute stroke.
  Stroke 2013 Lau AY, Wong KS, Lev M, Furie K, Smith W, Kim AS
• Is hypertension the key to reaching the healthy people 2000 goals by 2020?
  JAMA internal medicine 2013 Kim AS, Johnston SC
• The use of neuroimaging studies and neurological consultation to evaluate dizzy patients in the emergency department.
  The Neurohospitalist 2013 Navi BB, Kamel H, Shah MP, Grossman AW, Wong C, Poisson SN, Whetstone WD, Josephson SA, Johnston SC, Kim AS
• A cross-sectional study of individuals seeking information on transient ischemic attack and stroke symptoms online: a target for intervention?
  PloS one 2012 Kim AS, Poisson SN, Easton JD, Johnston SC
• Rate and predictors of serious neurologic causes of dizziness in the emergency department.
  Mayo Clinic proceedings 2012 Navi BB, Kamel H, Shah MP, Grossman AW, Wong C, Poisson SN, Whetstone WD, Josephson SA, Johnston SC, Kim AS
• Who Best to Create a Sense of Urgency for Acute Stroke Treatment? Commentary on "Neurohospitalists Improve Door-to-Needle Times for Patients With Ischemic Stroke Receiving Intravenous tPA".
  The Neurohospitalist 2012 Kim AS
• Cost-effectiveness of apixaban vs warfarin for secondary stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.
  Neurology 2012 Kamel H, Easton JD, Johnston SC, Kim AS
• The value of PRACTISE to improve thrombolysis rates for acute stroke: a 17-year quest.
  Neurology 2012 Kim AS, Young KC
• Application of the ABCD2 score to identify cerebrovascular causes of dizziness in the emergency department.
  Stroke 2012 Navi BB, Kamel H, Shah MP, Grossman AW, Wong C, Poisson SN, Whetstone WD, Josephson SA, Johnston SC, Kim AS
• Cost-effectiveness of dabigatran compared with warfarin for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation and prior stroke or transient ischemic attack.
  Stroke 2012 Kamel H, Johnston SC, Easton JD, Kim AS
• Early stroke risk and ABCD2 score performance in tissue- vs time-defined TIA: a multicenter study.
  Neurology 2011 Giles MF, Albers GW, Amarenco P, Arsava EM, Asimos AW, Ay H, Calvet D, Coutts SB, Cucchiara BL, Demchuk AM, Johnston SC, Kelly PJ, Kim AS, Labreuche J, Lavallee PC, Mas JL, Merwick A, Olivot JM, …
• Global variation in the relative burden of stroke and ischemic heart disease.
  Circulation 2011 Kim AS, Johnston SC
• A cost-utility analysis of mechanical thrombectomy as an adjunct to intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator for acute large-vessel ischemic stroke.
  Stroke 2011 Kim AS, Nguyen-Huynh M, Johnston SC
• Practice variation in neuroimaging to evaluate dizziness in the ED.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2011 Kim AS, Sidney S, Klingman JG, Johnston SC
• Cardiac rupture after intravenous t-PA administration in acute ischemic stroke.
  Neurocritical care 2010 Dhand A, Nakagawa K, Nagpal S, Gelfand JM, Kim AS, Smith WS, Tihan T
• Risk of vascular events in emergency department patients discharged home with diagnosis of dizziness or vertigo.
  Annals of emergency medicine 2010 Kim AS, Fullerton HJ, Johnston SC
• Addition of brain infarction to the ABCD2 Score (ABCD2I): a collaborative analysis of unpublished data on 4574 patients.
  Stroke 2010 Giles MF, Albers GW, Amarenco P, Arsava MM, Asimos A, Ay H, Calvet D, Coutts S, Cucchiara BL, Demchuk AM, Johnston SC, Kelly PJ, Kim AS, Labreuche J, Lavallee PC, Mas JL, Merwick A, Olivot JM, Purroy …
• Urgent neurology consultation from the ED for transient ischemic attack.
  The American journal of emergency medicine 2010 Kim AS, Sidney S, Bernstein AL, Douglas VC, Johnston SC
• Expression of the BMP antagonist Dan during murine forebrain development.
  Brain research. Developmental brain research 2003 Kim AS, Pleasure SJ
• Wnt receptors and Wnt inhibitors are expressed in gradients in the developing telencephalon.
  Mechanisms of development 2001 Kim AS, Lowenstein DH, Pleasure SJ
• Pax-6 regulates expression of SFRP-2 and Wnt-7b in the developing CNS.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2001 Kim AS, Anderson SA, Rubenstein JL, Lowenstein DH, Pleasure SJ