Earlier this week, Dartmouth College announced its new president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim. He becomes the first Asian-American to lead an Ivy League school and the 17th President of Dartmouth by the College’s Board of Trustees. You can watch the Introduction of Dr. Jim Yong Kim as 17th President of Dartmouth. More details here.

Dartmouth President-elect Jim Yong Kim – “Ivy League Milestone”

Dartmouth President-elect Jim Yong Kim – “Born in Korea”

Dartmouth President-elect Jim Yong Kim – “Why I became a doctor”

More about Dr. Jim Yong Kim

Dr. Kim trained as both a physician and anthropologist, receiving his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Brown University in 1982. A former senior official at the World Health Organization and co-founder of Partners In Health, he is internationally acknowledged for his leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and other diseases. In 2004, in recognition of his many accomplishments, he was elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dr. Kim has 20 years of experience in improving health in developing countries. He is a founding trustee and the former executive director of Partners In Health, a not-for-profit organization that supports a range of health programs in poor communities worldwide. In 2004, he was appointed director of the HIV/AIDS department at the World Health Organization, where he launched an initiative to dramatically expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment in low- and middle-income countries. By 2007, the initiative had helped to provide lifesaving antiretroviral therapy to approximately three million people worldwide and had accelerated global efforts to fight other diseases such as tuberculosis and malaria.

Dr. Kim is married to Dr. Younsook Lim, a pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Boston. The couple have two sons, one eight years old, the other born February 27.