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Brian T. Kim, MD

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23961 Calle De La Magdalena, Suite 300
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
2253.5 miles away
Medical Groups & Affiliations
Speaks: English
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Harvard Eye Associates - Laguna Hills

23961 Calle De La Magdalena, Suite 300, Laguna Hills, CA 92653

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About Brian T. Kim

Dr. Brian Kim is an accomplished and compassionate board certified ophthalmologist who specializes in the clinical treatment of retinal and macular diseases including macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinal vascular occlusions and other macular and retinal conditions. He also evaluates for retinal toxicity in patients taking certain medications such as Plaquenil, treats uveitis and performs cataract surgery.

After receiving his Bachelors of Science in mechanical engineering from Columbia University in New York, he earned his Medical Degree from Pennsylvania State University. He then completed his internal medicine internship at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix, AZ. He completed ophthalmology residency at the Gavin Herbert Eye Institute at University of California, Irvine. He then went on to complete a fellowship in medical retina at the prestigious Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Florida. He has published and presented over 15 novel research projects and has been interviewed for both local and national television programming.

Dr. Brian Kim has always had a penchant for technology, starting well before medical school. In high school, he assembled robotic dinosaurs for museums and by his first year of college, he was modeling and testing components for a biomechanical engineering company. After graduation he worked as a database programmer for Accenture in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology division. He then went on to work in the research lab of the famous TV physician, Dr. Mehmet Oz, studying mechanical cardiac assist devices and assisting with heart and lung transplant surgeries. It is this passion for advanced technology that has led him into the field of ophthalmology and to Harvard Eye Associates.

He is honored to return home and join Harvard Eye Associates with his father, Dr. Edward Kim. While in internship, Dr. Brian Kim met his beautiful wife, Amanda, and they have one daughter, Sloane, who was born in 2014. They are kept busy by their rambunctious pug dog that has a proclivity for mischief.

“Vision is our most valuable sense — I feel extremely privileged to help people in the care of their eyesight.”

Medical School

Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
2008

Internship

St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center
2012

Residency

Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
2013

Board Certifications
  • American Board of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology
Harvard Eye Associates - Laguna Hills
23961 Calle De La Magdalena, Suite 300
Laguna Hills, CA 92653

Harvard Eye Associates - San Clemente
665 Camino De Los Mares, Suite 102
San Clemente, CA 92673

Medical Groups & Affiliations
Providence Affiliated Physicians, Mission

Affiliated Locations
Providence Mission Hospital - Laguna Beach
Providence St. Joseph Hospital - Orange
Providence Mission Hospital - Mission Viejo

Clinical Interests

  • Abnormal Pupil Function
  • Abnormal Red Reflex
  • Abnormalities Of The Eyes
  • Absence Of Eye
  • Accommodating Lens Implant
  • Accommodation
  • Achromatopsia
  • Acute Inflammation Of Orbit
  • Agenesis Of Eye
  • Allergic Conjunctivitis
  • Alternating Hyperphoria
  • Aniseikonia
  • Anisocoria
  • Anisometropia
  • Aphakia
  • Arterial Biopsy
  • Aspheric Intraocular Lens Implant
  • Astigmatism
  • Astigmatism Lenses
  • Autoimmune Retinopathy
  • Best Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy
  • Biopsy Of Eye
  • Blepharoptosis
  • Blepharospasm
  • Blind In One Eye
  • Blood Clot In Eye
  • Blurred Vision
  • Brown Syndrome
  • Buphthalmos
  • Cataract
  • Cataract Removal
  • Ciliary Body Adenocarcinoma
  • Ciliary Body Degeneration
  • Color Blindness
  • Complex Cataract Surgery
  • Cone Rod Dystrophy
  • Conjunctival Injury
  • Conjunctivitis
  • Contact Lens Induced Corneal Edema
  • Contact Lens Infections
  • Contact Lenses
  • Corneal Diseases
  • Dacryocystorhinostomy
  • Diabetic Eye Exam
  • Diabetic Retinopathy
  • Diode Laser Cyclophotocoagulation
  • Diplopia
  • Disorders Of The Vitreous
  • Dissociated Vertical Deviation
  • Divergence Insufficiency
  • Dry Eyes
  • Ectopia Lentis
  • Ectropion
  • Enhanced S Cone Syndrome
  • Entropion
  • Epiretinal Membrane
  • Esotropia
  • Extramacular Disciform Lesions
  • Eye Cancer
  • Eye Health
  • Eye Lesions
  • Eye Pain
  • Farsightedness
  • Floaters
  • Floppy Eyelid Syndrome
  • Foreign Body (Cornea)
  • Fuchs Dystrophy
  • Giant Cell Arteritis
  • Glaucoma
  • Grave's Disease
  • Herpes Simplex With Ophthalmic Complication
  • Idiopathic Orbital Inflammatory Disease
  • Inflammation Of The Eyelid
  • Iritis
  • Keratitis
  • Keratoconus
  • Laceration Of Eye
  • Laser Vision Correction
  • Legal Blindness
  • Linear Nevus Sebaceous Syndrome
  • Lipiflow
  • Lipiview
  • Lupus Eye Conditions
  • Macular Degeneration
  • Macular Hole
  • Melanoma Of Eye
  • Microsurgery
  • Monofocal Intraocular Lens Implant
  • Multifocal Lens Implant
  • Myopia
  • Neurotrophic Keratopathy
  • Night Blindness
  • No Stitch Cataract Surgery
  • Nystagmus
  • Nystagmus Testing
  • Ocular Hypertension
  • Ocular Myasthenia Gravis
  • Ophthalmic Trauma
  • Optic Nerve Disease
  • Optic Neuritis
  • Optic Neuropathy
  • Optic Neve Hypoplasia
  • Optical Coherence Tomography
  • Orbital Floor Fracture
  • Papilledema
  • Pars Planitis
  • Premium Intraocular Lens Implant
  • Presbyopia
  • Pseudophakia
  • Pseudostrabismus
  • Pseudotumor Cerebri
  • Pterygium
  • Punctal Plugs For Dry Eyes
  • Red Eye
  • Red Reflex Exam
  • Refractive Amblyopia
  • Refractive Lens Exchange
  • Replacement Of Contact Lens
  • Retinal Degeneration
  • Retinal Detachment
  • Retinal Neovascularization
  • Retinal Vein Occlusion
  • Retinitis Pigmentosa
  • Ruptured Vessel Of Eye
  • Scleritis
  • Sensitivity To Light
  • Serum Matrix Metalloproteinase 9 Test
  • Shingles Of The Eye
  • Sjogrens
  • Stevens Johnson Syndrome
  • Strabismus
  • Stye
  • Sudden Vision Loss
  • Tear Osmolarity Test
  • Toric Intraocular Lens Implant
  • Toric Lenses
  • Uveitis
  • Viral Conjunctivitis
  • Virtual Care
  • Vision Loss
  • Visual Discomfort
  • Visual Disturbance
  • Visual Field Defects
  • Visual Impairment
  • Weakness Of Eye Closure
  • Xerophthalmia