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Medical Student
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Priscilla Kim, BA, MS is currently a fifth-year medical student at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. She was born and raised in Atlanta, GA, and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in Biochemistry and minored in Hispanic Studies. She was a Roy and Diana Vagelos Scholar in the Molecular Life Sciences and simultaneously obtained a Master of Science degree in Chemistry in 2018. She then moved to Cleveland, OH, to pursue her medical education and quickly fell in love with the field of Internal Medicine. This led her to seek an Internal Medicine research group during her thesis year at the Cleveland Clinic Center for Value-Based Care Research. There, she was mentored by Dr. Abhishek Deshpande, MD, PhD, and Dr. Michael Rothberg, MD, MPH. Her research focus has included COVID-19, community-acquired pneumonia, and urinary antigen testing. In April 2022, she was awarded the Grants for Emerging Research/Clinician Mentorship (G.E.R.M.) Award by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Foundation for her longitudinal, mentored research project identifying predictors of pneumococcal urinary antigen test positivity in patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Outside of medicine, Priscilla enjoys spending time with her friends and family, playing spikeball, exercising, playing board games, and rooting for the Tottenham Hotspurs.