Dr Jasung Kim

A staff psychiatrist at the Lincoln Regional Center since 2015, Dr. Jasung Kim manages the care of the hospital's inpatient population and leads a weekly continuous educational meeting among doctors. Prior to joining Lincoln Regional Center, Dr. Kim spent several years as psychiatrist-in-chief at Dong-In Hospital in Dong-Hae, Gang-Won, South Korea, applying integrated biopsychosociospiritual paradigm with a good response. Earlier in his career, Dr. Jasung Kim practiced many years as private practitioner, attended Bryan hospital, ran ECT clinic, served as medical director at Independence Center and as a psychiatric consultant at Madonna Rehab Hospital in Lincoln.

A graduate of Seoul National University, he completed an internship and psychiatry residency at Seoul National University Hospital and a child psychiatry fellowship at Seoul National University Children's Hospital. In US, his professional training includes an internship with New York Presbyterian Hospital and three years of a general psychiatry residency at the Cornell campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital. Additionally, Dr. Kim has experience in psychodynamic psychiatry, including Jungian influence through Korean psychiatry training, Freudian training analysis at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Institute. He finished a fellowship in the schizophrenia neuroimaging program at Yale University.

In addition to his broad professional exposure in biopsychosocial paradigm, he has an extensive personal spiritual journey, including heavy exposure in Christianity through forming years, personal spiritual exploration through comparative religion studies including Buddhism, Hinduism, parapsychology, quantum physics, studies of near death experiences, reincarnation memories, after death communication, medium. With these broad paradigm exposure, He has been integrating holistic, transpersonal psychiatry paradigm in his current practice, in addition to regular psychopharmacology approach.

In his free time, Dr. Kim enjoys singing with the guitar, and playing tennis, practices in zen group meditation. An avid reader, he leads a monthly book reading club in the community.