Dr. Kim’s clinical and surgical expertise has resulted in continual annual listings by Best Doctors in America®, Best Doctors in North Carolina®, and America’s Top Ophthalmologists® since 2003 as well as featured stories on the Discovery Channel, The Wall Street Journal, and Sports Illustrated. He has also been voted by his peers as one of 300 Premier Surgeons in Ocular Surgery News, one of the 250 most prominent cataract and intraocular lens surgeons in the country in Premier Surgeon, one of the “135 Leading Ophthalmologists in America” in Becker’s ASC Review, as well as one of the “Top 50 Opinion Leaders” in Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today.