Michael Hyun-ook Kim, MD, MMM

Department

Medicine

Position

Affiliate Professor

Book, Chapter/Section

• Current Diagnosis and Treatment: a quick reference for the general practitioner (published in 1998)
  Kim Michael, Eagle Kim A., Wooliscroft James, Syncope [Book Chapter] 1998

General

• Kim Michael, Goldberger Jeffrey J., Catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias 2007

Publications

• Next research
  Elawad Ahmed B., Hall Alex, Kim Michael H., Billion Taylor J., Impact of anticoagulant treatment strategy during initiation of antiarrhythmic drugs on clinical outcomes in atrial fibrillation patients with low CHA2DS2-VASc scores
  7, p. 101456 2026
• Frontiers in disaster and emergency medicine
  Czaplicki Alec M., Kim Michael H., Dilsaver Danielle B., Kim Steven Y., Differential patterns of urban and rural cardiovascular emergency department utilization and clinical outcomes
  4 2026
• Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine
  Andukuri Venkata G., Dilsaver Danielle B., Walters Ryan W., Xu Liou, Puckrein Gary, Kim Michael H., Regional and racial outcomes in mortality after atrial fibrillation ablation in medicare Fee for service patients
  13 2026
• Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine
  Ahmad Soban, Kim Michael H., Ahsan Muhammad Junaid, Kim Kathryn M., Bin Abdul Malik Mohammad Hamza, Ikram Sundus, Outcomes of early rhythm control vs. rate control strategies for atrial fibrillation in late elderly patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  12 2025
• Aging cell
  Pun Renju, Thapa Aradhana, Waknitz Michelle, Suzuki Rexton M, Kay Gabrielle F, Zheng Li, Sorgen Paul L, Kim Michael H, Baker Darren J, van Deursen Jan M, Gundry Rebekah L, North Brian J, Takafuji Sylar R, Haas Aliya L, BubR1 Insufficiency Drives Transcriptomic Alterations and Pathology Associated With Cardiac Aging and Heart Failure, p. e70160 2025
• Journal of the American Heart Association
  Pun Renju, Thapa Aradhana, Takafuji Sylar R, Kim Michael H, Suzuki Rexton M, Kay Gabrielle F, Howard Toni D, North Brian J, BubR1 Controls Heart Development by Promoting Expression of Cardiogenesis Regulators, p. e038286 2025
• Clinical cardiology (Mahwah, N.J.)
  Zeitler Emily P, McKindley David S, Stein Dara, Preblick Ron, Kabadi Shaum M, Rashkin Jason, Huse Samuel, Stamas Nicole, Kim Michael H, Health Care Resource Utilization With Dronedarone Versus Sotalol Following Catheter Ablation in Adults With Atrial Fibrillation
  48:1, p. e70064 2025
• Circulation (New York, N.Y.)
  Pun Renju, North Brian, Thapa Aradhana, Takafuji Sylar, Kay Gabrielle, Suzuki Rexton, Haas Aliya, Kim Michael, Abstract 4144061: BubR1 Insufficiency Recapitulates Changes Associated with Age-Related Cardiac Pathologies
  150:Suppl_1 2024
• Circulation (New York, N.Y.)
  Ahmad Soban, Ikram Sundus, Kim Kathryn, Fazeel Hafiz Muhammad, Cheema Huzaifa Ahmad, Yousaf Amman, Khalil Laraib, Kim Michael, Ahsan Muhammad, Abstract 4145344: Outcomes of Early Rhythm Control versus Rate Control Strategies for Atrial Fibrillation in Elderly Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  150:Suppl_1 2024
• Chest
  Billion TAYLOR, Kim MICHAEL H, Hall ALEXANDER, NG IAN, Walters RYAN, Elawad AHMED B, IMPACT OF ANTICOAGULANT TREATMENT STRATEGY DURING INITIATION OF ANTIARRHYTHMIC DRUGS ON CLINICAL OUTCOMES IN ATRIAL FIBRILLATION PATIENTS WITH LOW CHA2DS2-VASC SCORES
  166:4, p. A449 - A450 2024
• JACC. Clinical electrophysiology
  Kim Michael H., Atrial Fibrillation, No Matter How Defined, Is a Cost Burden: Insights to Drive Population Health
  10:4, p. 731 - 733 2024
• Journal of the American Heart Association
  Kim Kathryn M., Walters Ryan W., Kim Michael H., Health‐Related Social Needs, Social Determinants, and Readmissions in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease, p. e032583 - e032583 2024
• American Heart Journal Plus
  Latif Azka, Tran Amy M., Ahsan Muhammad Junaid, Kim Michael H., Niu Fang, Walters Ryan W., Relationship of health-related social needs and hospital readmissions in patients following a hospitalization for atrial fibrillation
  36, p. 100340 2023
• Circulation (New York, N.Y.)
  Ahmad Soban, Yousaf Amman, Peltz Joshua, Abbas Kirellos Said, Kim Michael H, Ahsan Muhammad Junaid, Ahsan Muhammad Zoraiz, Watson Christopher, Asad Zain Ul Abideen, Abstract 14047: Comparison of Left Bundle Branch Area Pacing and Biventricular Pacing in Patients With Left Ventricular Systolic Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  148:Suppl_1 2023
• Heart rhythm O2
  Yousaf Amman, Abbas Kirellos Said, Ahmad Soban, Peltz Joshua, Ahsan Muhammad Junaid, Muhammad Shoaib, Asad Zain Ul Abideen, Watson Christopher, Kim Michael H., Left bundle branch area pacing vs biventricular pacing for cardiac resynchronization: a systematic review and meta-analysis 2023
• Journal of the American Heart Association
  Zeitler Emily P., Kim Michael, Resource Use Following Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Spending Resources to Save Resources
  12:18, p. e031411 - e031411 2023
• Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine
  Pun Renju, Kim Michael H., North Brian J., Role of Connexin 43 phosphorylation on Serine-368 by PKC in cardiac function and disease
  9, p. 1080131 - 1080131 2023
• Circulation (New York, N.Y.)
  Holland Eva M, Walters Ryan W, Kim Michael H, Abstract 13655: Relationship of Health-Related Social Needs, Social Determinants of Health, and Hospital Readmission Following Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
  146:S_1, p. A13655 2022
• Circulation (New York, N.Y.)
  Latif Azka, Ahsan Muhammad J, Jaffri Abbis, Willman Claire C, Mirza Mohsin, Kim Michael H, kapoor vikas, Abstract 14052: Outcomes of Radiofrequency Transcatheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  144:Suppl_1, p. A14052 2021
• Circulation
  Kim Kathryn, Kim Steven, Kim Michael H, Sex-related differences in health care utilization in patients with atrial flutter
  142:Suppl_3 2020
• Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes
  Andukuri Venkata, Xu Liou, Walters Ryan W, Kim Michael H, Puckrein Gary A, Population-level insights into 30-day mortality in medicare beneficiaries after inpatient and outpatient catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation
  13:Suppl_1, p. A341 - A341 2020
• Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  Kousa Omar, Ahsan Muhammad, Qasim Abdallah, Ahmed Arslan, Haddad Toufik Mahfood, Kim Michael, Delayed versus Early Cardioversion for Patients with Uncomplicated Atrial Fibrillation Meta-Analysis
  75:11, p. 420 - 420 2020
• Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  Kim Steven, Kim Michael, Kim Kathryn, National economic cost burden of atrial flutter only patients without atrial fibrillation
  73:9, p. 329 - 329 2019
• Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  Kim Kathryn, Kim Steven, Kim Michael, Comparative variation in health care resource utilization between patients with atrial flutter only versus atrial fibrillation with or without atrial flutter
  73:9, p. 332 - 332 2019
• Journal of Innovations in Cardiac Rhythm Management
  Bhave Prashant, Shen Sharon, Passman Rod, Goldberger Jeffrey, Kim Michael, Patterns of dofetilide use for the treatment of atrial fibrillation
  7:7, p. 2425 - 2428 2016
• International Journal of Clinical Cardiology
  Kim Michael, Cardiac Troponin Assessment Following Atrial Fibrillation Cardiac Troponin Assessment Following Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Implications for Chest Pain Evaluation Ablation: Implications for Chest Pain Evaluation Recommended Citation Recommended Citation 2014
• Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  Greene H. L., Waldo A. L., Corley S. D., Coutu B., Domanski M. J., Faillace R. T., Gomes J. A., Haywood L. J., Josephson R. A., Kim M. H., Kim S. G., Lee S., Leman R. B., Nelson J. D., Linz P. E., Meissner M. D., Mickel M. C., Packer D. L., Pai S. M., Palileo E. V., Wyse D. G., Schutzman J. J., Swiryn S., Weiss R. J., Ziady G. M., Maintenance of sinus rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation
  42:1, p. 20 - 29 2003
• JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
  Kim Michael, Smith Andrew, Young James, Abraham W., Liem L, Leon Angel, Lieberman Randy, Wilkoff Bruce, Canby Robert, Schroeder J, Hall Shelley, Wheelan Kevin, , Combined Cardiac Resynchronization and Implantable Cardioversion Defibrillation in Advanced Chronic Heart Failure The MIRACLE ICD Trial
  289:20, p. 2685 - 2694 2003
• The New England journal of medicine
  Wyse D G, Domanski M J, Waldo A L, DiMarco J P, Rosenberg Y, Schron E B, Kellen J C, Greene H L, Mickel M C, Dalquist J E, Corley S D, , A comparison of rate control and rhythm control in patients with atrial fibrillation
  347:23, p. 1825 - 1833 2002

Presentations

• Outcomes of early rhythm control versus rate control strategies for atrial fibrillation in elderly patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis (AHA Scientific Sessions) 2024
• BubR1 insufficiency recapitulates changes associated with age-related cardiac pathologies (AHA Scientific Sessions) 2024
• Impact of anticoagulant treatment strategy during initiation of antiarrhythmic drugs on clinical outcomes in atrial fibrillation patients with low CHA2DS2-VASc scores (Chest Annual Scientific Sessions) 2024
• Differential patterns of urban and rural cardiovascular emergency department utilization and clinical outcomes (SAEM Annual Meeting) 2024
• Comparison of left bundle branch area pacing and biventricular pacing in patients with left ventricular systolic failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis (AHA Scientific Sessions) 2023
• Critical role of BubR1 in regulating cardiac aging (BCVS Scientific Sessions) 2023
• BubR1 regulates cardiac development through CaMKII in vivo (BCVS Scientific Sessions, American Heart Association) 2023
• Relationship of health-related social needs, social determinants of health, and hospital readmissions in adults with congenital heart disease (ACC Scientific Sessions) 2023
• Predictors of atrial fibrillation free survival in patients with implantable cardiac devices (American Heart Association Scientific Sessions) 2022
• Relationship of health-related social needs, social determinants of health, and hospital readmission following atrial fibrillation ablation (American Heart Association Scientific Sessions) 2022
• Sex differences in healthcare resource utilization in patients with atrial fibrillation receiving dronedarone versus sotalol following ablation (American Heart Association Scientific Sessions) 2022
• Real-world healthcare resource utilization outcomes with dronedarone versus sotalol following ablation in adults with atrial fibrillation (American Heart Association Scientific Sessions) 2022
• Impact of health related social needs on sex-based differences in hospital readmissions for atrial fibrillation. Poster at the Annual Scientific Sessions for Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes Research 2022
• Regularization of ventricular activation during atrial fibrillation using para-hisian and ventricular pacing. Poster presentation at the ACC Scientifc Sessions, Washington DC 2022
• Relationship of social determinants of health and hospitalizations for atrial fibrillation: a nationwide readmissions database study. Moderated Poster at ACC Scientifc Sessions, Washington DC. 2022
• Left ventricular lead placement using non-occlusive venogram for cardiac resynchronization therapy: a pilot study. Poster at 53rd Annual Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum, Omaha, NE 2022
• Predictors of atrial fibrillation free survival in patients with implantable cardiac devices. Global Health Conference Midwest, Omaha, NE 2022
• Outcomes of Radiofrequency Transcatheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis 2021
• Effect of post-procedural phone calls by Electrophysiology nurses on unplanned urgent care or emergency room visits after cardiac electrophysiology procedures. Poster at the ACC Annual Quality Summit 2021
• Andukuri V, Xu L, Puckrein G, Walters R, Kim MH. Total 30-day mortality in medicare beneficiaries following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (2016 - 2017). 2021: JACC 77 (18_Suppl 1_), 231. Presented at American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions. 2021
• Kim K, Kim S, Kim MH. Sex-related differences in health care utilization in patients with atrial flutter. Circulation 2020; 142 (Suppl_3), A12593. Presented at Annual Scientific Session of the American Heart Association. 2020
• Andukuri V, Xu L, Puckrein GA, Walters RW, Kim MH. Population-level insights into 30-day mortality in Medicare beneficiaries after inpatient and outpatient catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. Virtual Abstract Poster Session at AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Scientific Sessions. 2020
• American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions Poster Presentation (Virtual): Delayed versus Early Cardioversion for Patients with Uncomplicated Atrial Fibrillation Meta-Analysis 2020
• Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Do We Really Know Atrial Flutter: Clinical and Epidemiological Perspectives 2020
• American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions Abstract Presentation (Poster): National Economic Cost Burden of Atrial Flutter Only Patients Without Atrial Fibrillation; New Orleans, LA 2019
• American College of Cardiology Scientific Sessions Abstract Presentation (Poster): Comparative Variation in Health Care Resource Utilization Between Patients With Atrial Flutter Only Versus Atrial Fibrillation With Or Without Atrial Flutter; New Orleans, LA 2019
• Invited Lecture: Cardiovascular Outcomes and Atrial Fibrillation; Maricopa Medical Center; Phoenix, AZ 2019

Awards

• Recognition of over 100 reviews
  20th Anniversary Recognition of Reviewers with 100 or more reviews
  Heart Rhythm Society/Journal
• Remarkable Reviewer Award 2023
  Awarded in 2023 for CY 2022 contributions
  Heart Rhythm Journal
• Remarkable Reviewer Award 2021
  For work on the Heart Rhythm Journal in 2020
  Heart Rhythm Society
• Remarkable Reviewer Award 2018
  Heart Rhythm Journal
• Remarkable Reviewer Award 2017
  For work in 2016
  Heart Rhythm Journal
• Elite/Top Reviewer Award: 2014, 2015, and 2016
  Awarded only to 10 or less Journal Reviewers
  Journal of the American College of Cardiology
• Top Grade/Best Reviewers Designation, 2012
  Annals of Internal Medicine
• NASPE Traveling Fellowship
  North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology
• Midwest Trainee Investigator Award
  Central Society for Clinical Research