Esther Kim, MD
Associate Professor
Surgery
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Inquiry Short-Term Mentor Award, UCSF, 2023-2024
• Inquiry Long-Term Mentor of the Year Award, UCSF, 2023
• Muriel Steel Society Influential Women in Surgery Honor Roll, UCSF, 2022
• GME Excellence & Innovation Award, UCSF, 2021-2022
• Muriel Steel Society Influential Women In Surgery Honor Roll, UCSF, 2021

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Traning University of California 2022
• Microsurgery Fellowship University of California, San Francisco 2013
• Plastic Surgery Residency Mayo Clinic 2012
• BA University of California, Berkeley
• MD University of California, Davis

Publications (36)

Top publication keywords:
Sex Reassignment SurgeryBreast NeoplasmsThoracic NervesMammaplastySurgery, PlasticFree Tissue FlapsEndrinMastectomyLymphatic VesselsHemangioendothelioma, EpithelioidTranssexualismGroinNipplesPatient Reported Outcome MeasuresThrombosis

• The Effect of Pectoral Nerve Blocks on Opioid Use and Postoperative Pain in Masculinizing Mastectomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery 2023 Wallace AB, Song S, Yeh P, Kim EA
• Developing Gender-Affirming Surgery Curricula for Plastic Surgery Residency and Fellowship via Delphi Consensus.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery 2023 Song S, Park KM, Parmeshwar N, Dugi D, Schechter L, Berli JU, Kim EA, GAS Research Group
• Morphometric Analysis of Gender-affirming Breast Augmentation.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open 2022 Song S, Parmeshwar N, Steiner G, Kim EA
• A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Techniques for Management of Postoperative Lymphatic Leaks After Groin Surgery.
  Annals of plastic surgery 2022 Song S, Parmeshwar N, Steiner G, Kim EA
• The Incidence of Breast Cancer After Gender-Affirming Mastectomy in Transmen.
  Annals of plastic surgery 2022 Parmeshwar N, Song S, Alcon A, Kim EA
• Diagnosis and Treatment of Lymphatic Complications of the Groin Following Open Lower Extremity Revascularization with Plastic Surgery Closure.
  Annals of vascular surgery 2021 Wallace AB, Kim EA, Holland M, Lee S, Orringer M, Piper ML, Hansen SL
• A Dual-Surgeon Approach to Breast Cancer Surgery in a Transmale.
  Annals of plastic surgery 2021 Parmeshwar N, Alcon A, Kim EA
• The Breast Response to Estrogenic Stimulation in Transwomen Classification: Evaluation of Breast Response to Estrogenic Stimulation in Transwomen.
  Annals of plastic surgery 2021 Alcon A, Wang E, Oliver-Allen H, Srinivasa D, Kim EA
• A Technique for Optimizing Symmetry in Gender-affirming Mastectomy.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open 2021 Nguyen A, Alcon A, Parmeshwar N, Rogine C, Kim EA
• Rotational Thromboelastometry Derivative Fibrinogen-Platelet Ratio Predicts Thrombosis in Microsurgery.
  Journal of reconstructive microsurgery 2021 Patel H, Srinivasa DR, Volod O, Wang ED, Kim EA
• A Systematic Review of the Utility of Indocyanine Angiography in Autologous Breast Reconstruction.
  Annals of plastic surgery 2021 Parmeshwar N, Sultan SM, Kim EA, Piper ML
• Quantifying the Psychosocial Benefits of Masculinizing Mastectomy in Trans Male Patients with Patient-Reported Outcomes: The University of California, San Francisco, Gender Quality of Life Survey.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery 2021 Alcon A, Kennedy A, Wang E, Piper M, Loeliger K, Admassu N, Lentz R, Kim EA

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• Paraspinous Muscle Flaps in Complex Pediatric Spine Surgeries: A 12-Year Single Institution Experience.
  Annals of plastic surgery 2024 Falade I, Park KM, Conkling N, Kim EA, Hansen SL, Hoffman W, Piper ML
• Perceptions of a virtual education platform: how plastic surgery education has progressed during the COVID-19 pandemic at one academic institution.
  BMC medical education 2023 Song S, Nguyen A, Rosser M, Steiner G, Kim EA
• Double-incision mastectomy after reduction mammaplasty for persistent gender dysphoria: a case report.
  Case reports in plastic surgery & hand surgery 2023 Song S, Kim EA
• Microfluidics-free single-cell genomics with templated emulsification.
  Nature biotechnology 2023 Clark IC, Fontanez KM, Meltzer RH, Xue Y, Hayford C, May-Zhang A, D'Amato C, Osman A, Zhang JQ, Hettige P, Ishibashi JSA, Delley CL, Weisgerber DW, Replogle JM, Jost M, Phong KT, Kennedy VE, Peretz …
• Evaluating the Quality and Reliability of Gender-affirming Surgery Videos on YouTube and TikTok.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open 2022 Song S, Park KM, Phong K, Kim EA
• Reply: Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open 2021 Escandón JM, Bustos VP, Bustos SS, Mascaro A, Del Corral G, Ciudad P, Kim EA, Langstein HN, Manrique OJ
• Prophylactic Muscle Flaps in Primary Vascular Procedures of the Groin.
  Annals of vascular surgery 2021 Wallace AB, Piper ML, Holland M, Lee S, Orringer M, Eichler C, Kim EA, Hansen SL
• Evaluation of Dual-port versus Single-port Tissue Expanders in Postmastectomy Breast Reconstruction.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open 2021 Parmeshwar N, Piper M, Viner J, Foster R, Kim EA
• Nipple-areola complex reconstruction in transgender patients undergoing mastectomy with free nipple grafts: a systematic review of techniques and outcomes.
  Annals of translational medicine 2021 Bustos SS, Kuruoglu D, Yan M, Bustos VP, Forte AJ, Ciudad P, Kim EA, Del Corral GA, Manrique OJ
• Preventing Recurrence in Clean and Contaminated Hernias Using Biologic Versus Synthetic Mesh in Ventral Hernia Repair: The PRICE Randomized Clinical Trial.
  Annals of surgery 2021 Harris HW, Primus F, Young C, Carter JT, Lin M, Mukhtar RA, Yeh B, Allen IE, Freise C, Kim E, Sbitany H, Young DM, Hansen S
• Systematic review of fertility preservation options in transgender patients: a guide for plastic surgeons.
  Annals of translational medicine 2021 Yan M, Bustos SS, Kuruoglu D, Ciudad P, Forte AJ, Kim EA, Del Corral G, Manrique OJ
• Building a Multidisciplinary Academic Surgical Gender-affirmation Program: Lessons Learned.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open 2021 Manrique OJ, Bustos SS, Bustos VP, Mascaro AA, Ciudad P, Forte AJ, Del Corral G, Kim EA, Langstein HN
• Regret after Gender-affirmation Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Prevalence.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open 2021 Bustos VP, Bustos SS, Mascaro A, Del Corral G, Forte AJ, Ciudad P, Kim EA, Langstein HN, Manrique OJ
• Transgender and Gender-nonbinary Patient Satisfaction after Transmasculine Chest Surgery.
  Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open 2021 Bustos VP, Bustos SS, Mascaro A, Del Corral G, Forte AJ, Ciudad P, Kim EA, Langstein HN, Manrique OJ
• Regulatory T cells use arginase 2 to enhance their metabolic fitness in tissues.
  JCI insight 2019 Lowe MM, Boothby I, Clancy S, Ahn RS, Liao W, Nguyen DN, Schumann K, Marson A, Mahuron KM, Kingsbury GA, Liu Z, Munoz Sandoval P, Rodriguez RS, Pauli ML, Taravati K, Arron ST, Neuhaus IM, Harris HW, …
• Trainee Exposure and Education for Minimally Invasive Gender-Affirming Procedures.
  Dermatologic clinics 2019 Buhalog B, Peebles JK, Mansh M, Kim EA, Knott PD, Hoffman W, Seth R, Alcon A, Arron ST
• A20 and ABIN1 Suppression of a Keratinocyte Inflammatory Program with a Shared Single-Cell Expression Signature in Diverse Human Rashes.
  The Journal of investigative dermatology 2018 Harirchian P, Lee J, Hilz S, Sedgewick AJ, Perez White BE, Kesling MJ, Mully T, Golovato J, Gray M, Mauro TM, Purdom E, Kim EA, Sbitany H, Bhutani T, Vaske CJ, Benz SC, Cho RJ, Cheng JB
• Transcriptional Programming of Normal and Inflamed Human Epidermis at Single-Cell Resolution.
  Cell reports 2018 Cheng JB, Sedgewick AJ, Finnegan AI, Harirchian P, Lee J, Kwon S, Fassett MS, Golovato J, Gray M, Ghadially R, Liao W, Perez White BE, Mauro TM, Mully T, Kim EA, Sbitany H, Neuhaus IM, Grekin RC, Yu …
• High-Yield Purification, Preservation, and Serial Transplantation of Human Satellite Cells.
  Stem cell reports 2018 Garcia SM, Tamaki S, Lee S, Wong A, Jose A, Dreux J, Kouklis G, Sbitany H, Seth R, Knott PD, Heaton C, Ryan WR, Kim EA, Hansen SL, Hoffman WY, Pomerantz JH
• Skin-infiltrating, interleukin-22-producing T cells differentiate pediatric psoriasis from adult psoriasis.
  Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2017 Cordoro KM, Hitraya-Low M, Taravati K, Sandoval PM, Kim E, Sugarman J, Pauli ML, Liao W, Rosenblum MD
• Primary pleural epithelioid hemangioendothelioma.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2011 Kim EA, Lele SM, Lackner RP
• Identification of a novel aspartic-like protease differentially expressed in human breast cancer cell lines.
  Biochimica et biophysica acta 2000 Xin H, Stephans JC, Duan X, Harrowe G, Kim E, Grieshammer U, Kingsley C, Giese K
• Cloning and characterization of T-cell lymphoma invasion and metastasis 2 (TIAM2), a novel guanine nucleotide exchange factor related to TIAM1.
  Genomics 1999 Chiu CY, Leng S, Martin KA, Kim E, Gorman S, Duhl DM
• The cloning and developmental expression of unconventional myosin IXA (MYO9A) a gene in the Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS4) region at chromosome 15q22-q23.
  Genomics 1999 Gorman SW, Haider NB, Grieshammer U, Swiderski RE, Kim E, Welch JW, Searby C, Leng S, Carmi R, Sheffield VC, Duhl DM