About Michelle Kim, MD, PhD
Michelle Kim, MD PhD is a urologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She received her MD and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania where her PhD focused on healthcare management and economics. Dr. Kim completed her residency at Massachusetts General Hospital where she stayed on as staff. Her clinical interests focus on male and female voiding dysfunction and other benign diseases of the urinary tract. She delivers state of the art technology for treating enlarged prostates (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia). She is also one of the few urologists performing transperineal biopsies which have been shown to be a safer and effective approach to prostate biopsies. Outside of her clinical practice, Dr. Kim is interested in quality improvement and has studied quality improvement through public reporting of quality metrics and its effects on patient outcomes.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Artificial urinary sphincter
- Benign enlargement of prostate (BPH)
- Bladder stones
- Circumcision
- Green Light Laser Ablation
- Minimally invasive laser surgery for enlarged prostates
- Post-prostatectomy incontinence
- Prolapse in Women (native tissue non-mesh surgical repair)
- Prostate Diseases
- Rezum
- Sling surgery for urinary incontinence in men and women
- Ureteropelvic junction obstruction
- Urinary incontinence
- UroLift
- Vasectomy
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Urology
165 Cambridge St.
7th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 857-238-3838
Martha's Vineyard Hospital
1 Hospital Rd.
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557
Phone: 508-693-0410
Medical Education
- MD, University of Pennsylvania
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Urology, American Board of Urology
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Publications
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Kim, M., Barnato, A., Angus, D., Fleisher, L. and Kahn, J. “The Effect of Multidisciplinary Care Teams on Intensive Care Unit Mortality.” Archives of Internal Medicine 2010, 170:369-376
Kim, M., Metlay, J., Cohen, A., Feldman, H., Hennessey, s., Kimmel, S., Strom, B. and Doshi, J. “Hospitalization Costs associated with Warfarin-Related Bleeding Events among Older Community-dwelling Adults.” Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety 2010, 19(7):731-6
Werner, R., Konetzka, R., and Kim, M. “Quality Improvement under Nursing Home Compare: Real or Artifact?” Medical Care 2013, 51(7):582-588
Bechis, S., Kim, M., Wintner, A., and Kreydin, E. “Differential Response to Medical Therapy for Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms.” Curr Bladder Dysfunc Rep 2015, 10(2):177-185
Wintner, A., Kim, M., Bechis, S., and Kreydin, E. “Voiding Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis.” Seminars in Neurology 2016, 36 (2): 219-20
Mata, D., Ramos, M., Kim, M., Guille, C., and Sen, S. “In their own words: an analysis of the experiences of medical interns reported during a prospective cohort study of depression.” Academic Medicine 2016, 91(9):1244-50
Kreydin., E., Kim, M. et al. “Urinary Lignans are Associated with Decreased Lower Urinary Tract symptoms in Postmenopausal women.” Urology 2015, 86(4): 716-20
Navavizadeh, R., Zangi, M., Kim, M. et al. “Herbal Supplements for Prostate Enlargement: Current State of the Evidence.” Urology, 2018, 112”145-150
Kim, M. and Kreydin, E. “The Association of Serum Testosterone Levels and Urinary Incontinence in Women. Journal of Urology, 2018, 199(2):522-527
Visit felt rushed and lacked clarity.
She was so nice and so helpful
Dr Kim was able to schedule surgery the day after my visit to her office and to have all the pre-op lab tests conducted immediately after my visit. Superb experience.!
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Dr. Kim explained the procedure in a manner that was way to understand. She also was clear about what I could expect following the procedure. I felt I was given the information necessary to make an informed decision to proceed with the HoLEP procedure.
This was my initial visit with Dr. Kim. I didn't see any nurses. [redacted]. I was very impressed with Dr. Kim. She was courteous, listened to me, and could explain things in a way that I could understand pretty clearly. [redacted]. Thank you very much.
Good care provided
Dr. Kim is very professional. She communicates very sensitive health matters forthrightly while being very reassuring. She also explains procedures she does, the results she finds and the basis for her diagnosis'.
This was my first visit with Dr Kim. [redacted] So far, so good.
I really liked the fact that they offered a choice of braces for my injury.