About

Youngho (Young) Kim is an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Florida. His research examines the design and evaluation of economic policies that address market failures in the provision of environmental services, with an emphasis on payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs and environmental credit markets. Before joining the University of Florida, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford. He earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland and his B.S. in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Social psychology
• Knowledge management
• Business
• Psychology
• Public relations
• Medicine
• Internal medicine
• Endocrinology
• Chemistry
• Biochemistry
• Marketing
• Engineering
• Anesthesia
• Pharmacology

Selected publications

• Predicting the future caretakers of traumatic vascular injury management via operative exposure among surgical trainees

  European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery · 2025-01-01

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• Impact of Antiplatelet and Anticoagulation Therapy on Hemodialysis Reliable Outflow Graft Patency

  Annals of Vascular Surgery · 2025-06-03

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• Implementation of an acute care vascular surgery “Surgeon of the Week” model improves efficiency of inpatient care delivery

  European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery · 2025-10-01

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• Leveraging the Transfer Center to Improve Access to Vascular Surgical Care at a Tertiary Academic Medical Center

  Annals of Vascular Surgery · 2025-10-15

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• Perioperative and long-term outcomes after Hemodialysis Reliable Outflow (HeRO) graft surgery

  Journal of Vascular Surgery · 2025-05-28 · 1 citations

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• Implementation of an acute care vascular surgery “Surgeon of the Week” model improves efficiency of inpatient care delivery

  Journal of Vascular Surgery · 2025-06-07 · 1 citations

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• The current status of aortic training among vascular surgery trainees in the United States

  JVS-Vascular Insights · 2025-01-01 · 1 citations

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  <h2>Abstract</h2><h3>Background</h3> The recent advent of endovascular aneurysm repair has shifted the landscape of abdominal aortic aneurysm treatment from an open to a primarily endovascular approach. Previous studies have reported a decline in open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair case volume for vascular surgery trainees because of this paradigm shift, suggesting that proficiency of graduating trainees in performing open aortic surgery may be at risk. However, these studies have not considered non-open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair aortic operations, including those performed for occlusive disease. In the present study, we report comprehensive operative volumes and trends in both open and endovascular aortic surgery among vascular surgery trainees in the United States. <h3>Methods</h3> Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education reports were reviewed for all open and endovascular aortic operations performed by graduating vascular surgery fellows (VSFs) and integrated residents (VSR) from 2013 to 2023. Statistical analysis was performed using univariate tests and linear regression analysis. <h3>Results</h3> Over the 11-year period, the mean aortic case volume among graduating VSFs and VSRs were 118.8 ± 6.4 per graduate and 130.5 ± 10.7 per graduate, respectively. The open aortic experience comprised 32.9 ± 1.1 cases (27%) among the VSF group, including 17.5 ± 1.3 aneurysm repairs and 15.5 ± 0.6 operations for aortic occlusive disease. There was a <1% decrease in open aortic operations among the VSF group (−0.3 cases/year, R² = 0.55; <i>P</i> = .0008). Endovascular aortic volume among graduating VSF included 85.8 ± 7.0 total cases, which increased by +1.5 cases each year (R² = 0.53; <i>P</i> = .002). These included 42.2 ± 3.6 EVARs, 15.8 ± 1.3 thoracic endovascular aneurysm repairs, and 27.8 ± 2.2 aortoiliac angioplasty and/or stenting operations. Among graduating VSRs, the open aortic experience was comprised of 36.1 ± 1.5 cases (28%), including 18.3 ± 2.0 aneurysm repairs and 17.7 ± 1.9 operations for aortic occlusive disease. There was no decrease in open aortic operations in this group (R² = 0.00; <i>P</i> = .95). The endovascular aortic case volume among graduating VSRs included 94.4 ± 10.7 total cases, which increased by +3.0 cases annually (R² = 0.85; <i>P</i> < .0001). These procedures included 46.5 ± 3.9 EVARs, 15.8 ± 2.9 thoracic endovascular aneurysm repairs, and 32.1 ± 10.9 aortoiliac angioplasty and/or stenting operations. <h3>Conclusions</h3> Contrary to prior studies, open and endovascular aortic training among vascular trainees is more robust than previously reported. There does not seem to be a meaningful decrease in open aortic case volume among graduating trainees, and endovascular aortic experience continues to increase each year. This finding suggests that the current training paradigms continue to provide a well-rounded foundation in both open and endovascular aortic procedures.

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• Incidence and risk factors for Hemodialysis Reliable Outflow bypass graft infection

  Journal of Vascular Surgery · 2025-08-21

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• Explantation of fenestrated endograft complicated by complete junctional dissociation and symptomatic type IIIa endoleak

  Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques · 2025-11-21

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  In this report, we present a 67-year-old man who was transferred from an outside facility with complaints of severe back pain. Computed tomography imaging demonstrated a type IIIa endoleak with complete junctional dissociation of his prior fenestrated endograft, between the visceral and the bifurcated components. Given the perpendicular configuration of the dissociated stent grafts, no endovascular salvage was feasible, and open explantation was indicated. His preoperative evaluation was significant for a positive cardiac stress test warranting coronary artery stenting. The patient underwent subsequent open graft explantation and aortic repair, and was ultimately discharged home after an uncomplicated hospital course.

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• Understanding the Time Investment of Program Directors and Core Faculty in Surgical Specialties

  Journal of surgical education · 2025-07-15 · 1 citations

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Recent grants

• Cyclic Dinucleotides in Combinatorial Immunotherapy for Cancer

  NIH · $1.7M · 2013–2019

• Head & Neck Cancer Neoantigen Characterization & Therapeutic Targeting

  NIH · $2.3M · 2018–2024

• NIH Grant K23DE018464

  NIH · $733k · 2013

Frequent coauthors

• Anahita Dua

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  132 shared

• Charles DeCarlo

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  130 shared

• Joo Y. Song

  Beckman Research Institute

  125 shared

• Raju Pillai

  City of Hope

  124 shared

• Dennis D. Weisenburger

  University of Nebraska Medical Center

  123 shared

• Aliyah R. Sohani

  Massachusetts General Hospital

  123 shared

• Flavia Rosado

  University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

  121 shared

• Jerry Wong

  Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

  121 shared

Labs

• Food and Resource Economics DepartmentPI

Education

• MD

  University of Cincinnati

  2013

• MS

  University of Michigan

  2009

• BS

  Michigan State University

  2006