{"id":59516,"date":"2023-03-08T09:52:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T14:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/oncology\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=59516"},"modified":"2025-12-09T10:44:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:44:57","slug":"william-y-kim","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/medicine\/oncology\/people\/william-y-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"William Y. Kim, MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WSD5ym2XIgE?html5=1\" title=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Dr. Kim is a laboratory-based physician-scientist whose research and clinical practice focuses on bladder and kidney cancers. After completing his clinical oncology training and post-doctoral fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Dr. Kim joined the Division of Oncology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006. 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