California medical license A87628 and dual fellowship-trained credentials in Geriatric Psychiatry anchor Dr. Daniel S. Kim's clinical record at the UC San Diego Medical Center Hillcrest campus on West Arbor Drive. Kim served as Associate Medical Director of the UCSD Senior Behavioral Health Inpatient Unit from 2008 to 2016, an inpatient geriatric-psychiatry leadership role that overlapped with the schizophrenia-and-aging research conducted at UCSD by Ellen Lee. He earned his MD from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 2000, completed his General Psychiatry residency at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004, and then finished his Geriatric Psychiatry clinical fellowship at UCSD in 2005 before joining the UCSD inpatient faculty. Treatment scope centers on dementia, behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia, late-life depression, and treatment-resistant mood disorders in older adults. His ongoing research into accelerated intermittent theta-burst stimulation for treatment-resistant bipolar II depression connects his caseload to the broader UCSD aging-and-neuropsychiatry research portfolio led by Dr. Igor Grant, MD. The most complex work on the inpatient geriatric panel is acute behavioral stabilization of dementia patients with severe agitation and psychosis, where antipsychotic dosing must be balanced against fall risk, delirium, and the cardiometabolic vulnerabilities of patients in their eighth and ninth decades.