Won Kim, MD

Won Kim, MD, is a Senior Medical Director in Clinical Oncology at Janssen. He serves as the study responsible physician for multiple prostate cancer clinical trials. Before joining Janssen in November 2020, Won was a genitourinary medical oncologist at Kaiser Permanente, caring for patients with prostate, bladder, kidney, and testis cancer. He practiced in Oakland, California, serving an incredibly diverse patient population. One of his main research interests at Kaiser Permanente was the equitable implementation of genomic testing for patients with genitourinary cancers.

Won completed his internal medicine residency at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, and after serving as Chief Resident at Cornell, he completed his medical oncology fellowship training at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He was then recruited to join the faculty at UCSF as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology and Oncology, and was an active member in Prostate Cancer Program and the Cancer Immunotherapy Program at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. He received multiple peer-reviewed grants to support his work in patient-centered prostate cancer research, including from the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and served as principle investigator for multiple clinical trials, and is the author of numerous publications. He served as the clinical leader of the UCSF Kidney Cancer program and as a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Kidney Cancer Guidelines Panel. During his time at UCSF, Won was the associate program director of the UCSF Hematology/Oncology Training Program, and led efforts to bring diversity, equity and inclusion into the training program’s recruitment strategy, and helped to establish a new Hematology/Oncology training program at Kaiser Permanente.