Dr. Andrew Kim grew up in California and received his undergraduate degree from the University of San Francisco. After graduating from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1989, he completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals in 1992. As a staff physician, he joined Hardwood Medical Associates/Covenant Medical Group. For five years he served on the Board of Directors at this 75-doctor, multi-specialty clinic with his last two years as the Vice Chairman. In 2003 Dr. Kim and Dr. Samuel Idarraga established Allegiance Internal Medicine Specialists to provide highly personalized and individualized medical care, one person at a time.
As a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Assistant Clinical Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin, he has been an active member of the core teaching faculty at Ascension Wheaton Franciscan – St. Joseph’s hospital since 1992. Dr. Kim has also been named the best teacher of the academic faculty for several consecutive years. In addition to providing weekly scheduled lectures to medical students, resident physicians work under Dr. Kim’s supervision at our office daily. He is involved with the Graduate Medical Education and the Program Evaluation Committees at Ascension Wheaton Franciscan – St. Joseph’s hospital. Dr. Kim has been a principal investigator for multiple clinical trials, including topics such as cardiovascular medicine, metabolism, lipids, obesity, inflammatory and irritable bowel diseases and sleep disorders. Milwaukee Magazine has cited Dr. Kim as one of Milwaukee’s top internists annually since it started featuring such an issue.
With a firm belief in providing unbiased, high quality, independent medical care to greater southeastern area patients, Dr. Kim has been the Medical Director and Chairman of the Board of an Independent Practice Association, Wisconsin Independent Practice Association previously Progressive Physician Network since its inception in 2008.
Dr. Kim is married with two young-adult children, enjoys playing soccer and gardening, as well as traveling with his family. He is also proud to say that he has completed two marathons, during his fifth decade.