Dr Andrew Kim
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Dr. Andrew Kim is the first Korean cosmetic surgeon in Australia with more than 10 years of experience. Dr. Kim gained his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery MBBS in 1997 from the University of New South Wales and graduated with a Masters of Medicine degree in 2004 and a PhD in 2008 from the Department of Physiology, School of Medicine of Chung Ang University in Seoul, South Korea. He is a renowned in Australia as a facial cosmetic surgeon, specializing in rhinoplasty and double eyelid surgery. However, after 3 years of his own hair transplants, Dr. Kim decided hair restoration was his passion. He went on to train and was mentored by internationally renowned hair surgeon Professor Jung Chul Kim, who is the founding member of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgeons and credited as a pioneer in the development of singular follicular grafting. Dr. Kim has been performing FUT Hair Transplantation for over 10 years in Asia and Australia. Dr. Kim has also studied Genetic Hair Research and Methodology at the Kyungpook National University Hospital (KNUH) and has been a visiting professor/ lecturer at KNUH since September 2008. To continually hone his hair transplant expertise, Dr. Kim actively participates and attends hair restoration conferences and workshops worldwide. He has shown special interest in [Treatment name removed] generated hair growth, [Treatment name removed] and its future application in hair surgery. He is a member of International Society for Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS) and recently became a member of the Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery (ACCS) in 2010 and a fellow of Korean College of Cosmetic Surgery (KCCS) in 2011.