Dr. Kenneth Kim is a board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon practicing in Los Angeles. Dr. Kim was nominated for the Rhodes Scholarship and selected as a University Medal finalist at UC Berkeley. Dr. Kim graduated from Yale University School of Medicine and was a recipient of the Dean’s Award and Department of Surgery Research Award. Dr. Kim was inducted as a fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He completed his plastic and reconstructive surgery residency at Northwestern University. Dr. Kim was awarded the AO Craniomaxillofacial Research and Development Fellowship at the AO Institute in Switzerland. He is an assistant clinical professor at UCLA School of Medicine and a partner of Dream Medical Group in Seoul, South Korea. Dr. Kim also teaches plastic surgery to residents at Seoul National University as a clinical faculty. He has published numerous peer-reviewed journals on double eyelid surgery, facelift, and other aesthetic surgery. He has been an invited lecturer at numerous national and international conferences and was a chairman of the Upper Blepharoplasty and Visual Field Loss Guideline Task Force of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. He also serves as a member of the Quality and Performance Measurement Committee and Patient Safety Subcommittee. He specializes in operating with local anesthesia (no general anesthesia) to minimize the risks of surgery and to expedite recovery time. He also has a unique method of minimizing bleeding during surgery for optimal post-operative results. He focuses on Asian eyelid, facelift, rhinoplasty, and breast surgeries.