NVISION Eye Center

Esther Kim
M.D.

Dr. Esther Lee Kim is a Southern California native who grew up in the Fullerton area.

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Dr. Esther Lee Kim is a Southern California native who grew up in the Fullerton area. She received her undergraduate education at Princeton University, where she graduated cum laude with a degree in Molecular Biology. She received her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine, where she discovered her love of ophthalmology.

After her internal medicine internship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, she completed her ophthalmology residency at the University of Southern California (USC) Roski Eye Institute (formerly Doheny Eye Institute)/ Los Angeles County Medical Center, one of the busiest and top-ranked residency programs in the country. She then pursued a subspecialty fellowship in Vitreoretinal Surgery at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. There, she gained clinical and surgical expertise in diseases of the macula, retina, and vitreous under the mentorship of world-renowned vitreoretinal surgeons.

Dr. Kim has published extensively on a wide range of innovative topics in vitreoretinal surgery that have been featured in leading ophthalmology journals. She is regularly invited to present at national and international ophthalmology meetings, and she serves as an invited reviewer for several top ophthalmology journals, including Journal of Vitreoretinal Diseases.

Dr. Kim actively serves as a Consultant and Advisor to numerous pharmaceutical industry companies, providing input and guidance for new and established treatments for a variety of retinal conditions. She also speaks for multiple Speaker Bureaus, educating her colleagues on the latest therapeutics in retina.

Dr. Kim’s clinical interests include macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal tears and detachments, macular puckers and holes, secondary intraocular lens placement following complicated cataract surgery, retinal imaging, and clinical trials.

When she is not practicing retina, she enjoys spending time with her husband, chasing her two young sons, spinning on her Peloton, reading books, and trying new restaurants.

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