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Associate Professor
Mount Sinai Health System/ Icahn School of Medicine At Mount Sinai
Dr. Soo Yeon Kim is the Director of Pain Medicine and Interventional Spine in the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She also serves as the Associate Program Director of the Pain Medicine Fellowship at Mount Sinai West.
She specializes in comprehensive pain management with expertise in spine-related pain, post-laminectomy syndrome, vertebral compression fractures, neuropathic pain, degenerative joint disease, and other musculoskeletal conditions. Dr. Kim is highly skilled in advanced neuromodulation and minimally invasive techniques, including spinal and peripheral nerve stimulators, diagnostic and therapeutic spinal injections, discography, kyphoplasty, cryotherapy, orthobiologic injections, and pulsed and thermal radiofrequency neurolysis.
Her practice emphasizes compassionate, evidence-based care through a multidisciplinary approach that integrates advanced interventions, physical rehabilitation, and close collaboration with referring providers to deliver individualized treatment plans.
Before joining Mount Sinai, Dr. Kim served as Director of Musculoskeletal Medicine and Associate Program Director of the Blaustein Pain Medicine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins. She also co-founded and co-directed the Johns Hopkins Post-Acute COVID-19 Team (PACT).
Dr. Kim has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and abstracts, and lectures nationally and internationally on musculoskeletal interventions. Her ongoing research focuses on innovative approaches to chronic pain syndromes.
