Julie Kim, M.D., FACP

Dr. Julie Kim is a Board-Certified Internist with over 25 years of medical experience and the Medical Director of the Brain Treatment Centers in Newport Beach, San Diego, and Cardiff since 2013.

She has treated over 6,000 patients with MeRT® at the flagship Brain Treatment Center in Newport Beach, where it all first started. As the most experienced MeRT clinician worldwide, Dr. Kim is the one who trains all other physicians in the MeRT technology.

Dr. Kim has dedicated the last decade to helping those in need and who can benefit from MeRT (Magnetic e-Resonance Therapy)

Dr. Julie Kim attended and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Sciences from Kent State University. Through a 6-year combined undergraduate-medical school program, she obtained her Medical Degree from Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine. Subsequently, she completed her residency at Lutheran General Hospital in Des Plaines, IL, with a specialization in Internal Medicine. She is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.
 
Prior to joining the Brain Treatment Center team, she spent 14 years practicing primary care, during which she cultivated a deep connection to her patients and a life-long commitment to providing compassionate, high-quality care. She has brought that passion to BTC and is dedicated to working with patients to encourage brain development and optimize brain function, non-invasively and without the use of medication.
 
Since joining the Brain Treatment Center in 2013, she has pioneered and worked extensively with the treatment of patients with autism, post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, stroke, depression, and other neurological disorders. She has seen firsthand the effects of how MeRT therapy has changed the lives of her patients and the community of family and friends that surround each patient. Dr. Kim takes pride in being able to effectively communicate how an individual’s brainwave patterns may be affecting their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. And more importantly, how MeRT can be used to optimize those brainwaves to improve one’s mood, cognition, and actions.
 
During her time away from work, Dr. Kim and her daughter serve in the National Charity League and support OC Ukraine which was co-founded in 2022 by her high school son to help refugee families from Ukraine.  

Education

Medical School

Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM)

Rootstown, OH

M.D. Degree, 1996

Undergraduate

Kent State University

BS Integrated Life Sciences, 1993

Summa cum laude

Those are objective changes that we see; patients clinically will feel better, and the qEEG validates the changes and why they feel better. It would be difficult if I did not have that qEEG. We’re looking at the brain, an organ, that’s disruptive and our goal is to fix that disruption and to synchronize it. Once patients can see the changes objectively, they feel more confident that there’s value to the treatment. This is a life-changing technology there are so many indications and it helped so many people that maybe didn’t have any other options.” – Dr. Julie Kim, owner, and physician of Brain Treatment Center Newport Beach and Brain Treatment Center in San Diego. 

Professional Training 

Lutheran General Hospital

Internal Medicine Residency Program – Park Ridge, IL

Certifications

ABIM Board Certification: 1999

ABIM Board Recertification: 2009  

ABIM MOC Program

American College of Physicians Fellow

NCQA/ADA Diabetes Physical Recognition Program