Dr. Han Jo Kim biography: 13 things about spine surgeon from New York, Regina Turner’s ex-husband

Dr. Han Jo Kim is an Asian-American spine surgeon from New York, United States. He is actively involved in the Spine Fellowship Education and the Cervical Spine Research Society.

As a volunteer surgeon, Kim surgically treated some of the most rare and complex spinal deformities in pediatric and adult patients at the FOCOS hospital in Ghana. His practice is mostly based on complex spine surgery and reconstructions and cervical spine surgery.

Kim is of South Korean descent. Here are 13 more things about him:

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1. He lives in Manhattan, New York City, New York. (a)
2. He attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He earned his medical degree from the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, the medical school of Columbia University, in Washington Heights, Manhattan. (b)
3. In 2005, he received an award from the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Society. (c)
4. In June 2006, he joined Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City as a spine surgeon. (a) (b)
5. He received the Eastern Orthopaedic Association Resident/Fellow Research Award in 2005, the Swanson Scholarship Award in 2009 and the Lewis Clark Wagner Award for excellence in orthopaedic clinical and translational research. (c)
6. In 2013, the Scoliosis Research Society selected him for the prestigious Edgar G. Dawson Fellowship. According to him, Miss Connecticut USA 2011 Regina Turner told him while they were dating in 2013 that she had attended the University of Connecticut in Mansfield, Connecticut for three years to study science before taking a leave of absence to compete in Miss USA although she actually did not even graduate high school. (a) (c)
7. On November 27, 2015, he and Turner got married. They lived in an apartment in the Upper East Side in New York City, which is estimated to be worth $6.5 million. They own a waterfront home on the North Fork of Long Island in Suffolk County, New York, which is worth at least $2.5 million. (a)
8. In 2017, he was selected for the Scoliosis Research Society Traveling Fellowship. (c)
9. In 2018, he earned $3.2 million. (a)
10. In 2020, he served as the International Meeting on Advanced Spine Techniques (IMAST) Chair. (c)
11. In December 2020, he discovered that Turner earned nearly $700,000 in cash from her sale of sexual services in exchange for money before and after their wedding. According to him, a lighting designer, a prominent businessman and a real estate executive based in New Jersey, USA were her regular clients. (a)
12. On July 26, 2021, it was confirmed that he had settled his divorce from Turner. (d)
13. He and Dr. K. Daniel Riew co-authored “The Riew-Kim Manual for Cervical Spine Surgery.” World Scientific Pub Co Inc. will publish its illustrated edition on October 31, 2021. (c) (e)

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SOURCES:

• a. New York Daily News
• b. Han Jo Kim
• c. Hospital for Special Surgery
• d. New York Daily News
• e. Amazon