Philip Kim

About

Dr. Kim began his medical career at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. He completed his anesthesiology residency and pain management fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is board certified in Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Integrative Medicine. He also completed a master's in functional medicine at the University of South Florida. His multiple society memberships include the International Association for the Study of Pain, Spine Interventional Society, American Academy of Pain Medicine, Regional Pain and Anesthesia Society. North American Spine Society, North American Neuromodulation Society, and Clinical TMS Society. He is the past president of the Pennsylvania Pain Society. He is the secretary of the Federation for Pain Care Access.

Dr. Kim is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of the Center for Interventional Pain & Spine and Brain Care. He was a previous Medical Representative for the Controlled Substance Advisory Committee of Delaware, and a member of the Delaware Prescription Drug Action Committee. He is on the Delaware County Opioid Settlement Task Force. He has served as the DEA medical expert in Philadelphia and Delaware. He is also a current author on global and national guidelines, consensus panels, and chapters on spinal cord stimulation, intrathecal drug delivery systems, and minimal invasive procedures.

Recognized as a Regional Top Doctor by Castle Connolly Magazine, Dr. Kim has received the Top Doctor Award by Philadelphia Magazine (2016-2025).

The Center for Interventional Pain Spine is one of the largest independent pain practices in the region, providing cutting-edge treatments and being involved in various clinical research projects. We offer advanced peripheral and spinal cord interventional and minimal options for spine and pain. We provided targeted intrathecal drug delivery systems and spinal or peripheral nerve stimulations for intractable pain conditions. As the original site in Pennsylvania, we offer non-invasive neuromodulation, MeRT ( Magnetic EEG response therapy) or EEG directed TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation) for neurodegenerative and neurodevelopment conditions such as depression, anxiety, migraine, obsessive compulsive disorder, pain, and addiction. Current clinical studies being performed in the office in post-traumatic stress disorder (Phase II) and autism.

List the treatments and procedures you offer:

Spinal and epidural injections

Percutaneous Interspinous spacers

Kyphoplasty

MILD ( minimal invasive lumbar decompression)

Basovertebral ablation

Peripheral nerve stimulation

Spinal cord stimulation

Dorsal root stimulation

Medial branch stimulation

Intrathecal drug delivery systems

Percutaneous medial branch rhiztomy

sacroiliac joint fusion

EEG-directed transcranial nerve stimulation ( Magnetic EEG response therapy)

Awards or Certifications

Board certification in Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine, and Functional Medicine

Masters of Health in Functional Medicine

Regional Top Doctor by Castle Connolly Magazine, Dr. Kim has received the Top Doctor Award by Philadelphia Magazine (2016-2025)

What's your background, education and training?

Dr. Kim began his medical career at Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. He completed his anesthesiology residency and pain management fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and is board certified in Pain Medicine, Anesthesiology, and Integrative Medicine. He also completed a master's in functional medicine at the University of South Florida.

Hours of operation

0800-1700 Monday to Friday

Insurances Accepted

See list on www.centerpain.com

Special expertise

Pain-Interventional Techniques, Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD), Pain-Back, Head & Neck, Spinal Cord Stimulation, Headache/Facial Pain, Pain-Spine, Pain-Chronic, Telemedicine