Thomas Kim
Thomas Kim earned his BA in Psychology and Economics at Swarthmore College, and his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He then completed both his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical College. His research interests focus broadly on treatments for depression, and more specifically, on patient-reported outcome measures and predictive modeling of mental health treatment outcomes. He also specializes in providing cognitive behavioral therapy for depressive and anxiety disorders.
Research and Academic Interests
Treatments for depression
Methodology
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Departments and Programs
Selected Publications
Kim, T.T. & Xu, C. (2025). Not all types of depressed patients who persist with their antidepressant treatment improve in side effect complaints: A comparison of treatment completers and dropouts in the STAR*D trial. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 151(2): 152-162.
Kim, T.T., Xu, C., & DeRubeis, R.J. (2021). Patients’ judgments of the importance of treatment-induced reductions in symptoms of depression: The role of specific symptoms, magnitudes of change, and post-treatment levels. Psychotherapy Research, 32(3), 404-413.