MD, Associate Director of Operations, READI
Paul D. Kim, MD is the Associate Director of Operations for the Response to Emergencies and Disasters Institute at the George Washington University, a past Director and Area Emergency Manager for the Emergency Management Strategic Healthcare Group of the Department of Veterans Affairs VA Healthcare Network Upstate New York where he served as the National Disaster Medical System Coordinator for 3 Upstate New York Federal Coordinating Centers, Coordinator of three Primary Receiving Centers for the DoD/VA Contingency. Previously he served as the charter Federal Co-chair of the InterAgency Board for Equipment Standardization and InterOperability for the Medical Subgroup, and charter member of the Upstate New York Bioterrorism Executive Planning Committee.

Dr. Kim has over 20 years of experience in the disaster and emergency preparedness. During his tenure Dr. Kim has had the responsibility of responding to and managing a wide variety of events from the preparedness, planning, response and recovery aspects of Comprehensive Emergency Management. The events he has been intimately involved in range from natural disasters to acts of workplace violence and terrorism. Dr. Kim has participated in command and control roles for managing special events, mass gatherings and mass casualty patient reception and repatriation. He has also participated and assisted hospitals, schools, communities, agencies and large businesses in building Comprehensive Emergency Management programs as they pertain to continuity of operations for a wide variety of catastrophic emergencies.

Dr. Kim has lectured extensively and is published in academic and professional journals on emergency preparedness, hospital preparedness, public safety and workplace violence. He has authored,"Violence in the Healthcare Industry: The Newest Epidemic", "Violence in the Healthcare Industry: Is Anyplace Safe?", "Violence in the Healthcare Industry: Is Your Facility Ready?", "Violence in the Workplace: A Potential Disaster Situation"; a contributing author to "Terrorism: Calibrating the Risk and Response to Terrorism", and "Terrorism: New Weapons of Mass Effect", "Emergency Medical Services Systems Development: Lessons Learned from the United States of America for Developing Countries".

Dr. Kim continues to serve on the DoD / DoJ InterAgency Board on Equipment Standardization and InterOperability, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Emergency Management and a member of the National Coordinating Council of Emergency Management.

Paul D. Kim, MD is the recipient of numerous professional and community awards for accomplishment and service within the public safety & health profession. He earned his Scientiarum Baccalaureatum from Fordham University in Psychology, his Doctor of Medicine from the Universidad Juarez, Juarez, Mexico and completed his clinical rotations with the University of Massachusetts at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.