Sarah Kim is a physician, independent dance artist and somatic educator based in Toronto/Tsi tkarón:to. She serves as the Medical Education Health Humanities Theme Lead at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, where she is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and Director of the Program in Health, Arts & Humanities. Her clinical practice is specialized in Narrative Medicine, Sports & Exercise Medicine, and Medical Psychotherapy.
Dr. Kim is the former Lead Physician for Canada Basketball’s Women’s Elite Program, spending a decade travelling internationally representing Canada with the National Women’s Teams. She is an expert in high performance and historical ideas around the body, exploring the intersections of humanness within industrialized systems. In both medical and pedagogical settings, Dr. Kim integrates critical humanities, mindfulness, and movement as generative practices of resilience, sustainability, ethical interdependence, and compassion-based care.
Instagram: @sarahkim_md