Biography of Samuel Wesley Kime '53-A

Dr. Kime attended Occidental College and La Sierra College, where he graduated with a BA in 1948. As a medical student at CME/LLUSM he was invited by Varner Johns ’45 and Albert Hirst ’42 to participate in writing a review of the literature on dissecting aneurysms, which has become something of a classic in the field.

His internship was at Los Angeles County General Hospital in 1953.

He did specialty training in two fields: internal medicine at Peter Brent Brigham Hospital in Boston (1957-58) and Barnes Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis (1960-61), with an intercalated (1958-1960) fellowship in renal physiology under Dr. Neil Bricker at Barnes (as did Stewart Shankel ’58). He participated in writing approximately 15 published papers. He next took a pathology residency at Los Angeles Country General Hospital (1973-1976). He has specialty board certification in both internal medicine (1965) and anatomic and clinical pathology (1975).

Military service (1954-1957) was at Armed Forced Institute of Pathology, Washington DC, as director of the medical museum and laboratory (in charge of artistically mounting specimens such as, among other items, fragments of Lincoln’s vertebrae, clearly labeled as to origin, and John Foster Dulles’ colon, anonymously displayed. Barbara Eisenhower’s placenta was left undisplayed). “Varner Johns and I were in the same indoctrination class at Fort Sam Houston,” Kime stated.

“After finishing internal medicine residency and fellowship in 1961, I practiced internal medicine in Glendale and was an instructor in internal medicine at LLU. At the invitation of Varner Johns, I left practice in 1964 to be full-time acting head of LLU internal medicine teaching at the Los Angeles County Hospital, to provide teaching for the last LLU class at the County Hospital, while LLU transferred operations to the Loma Linda campus. After the class of ’66 had graduated and all of LLU’s operations at LACH had ended, and while remaining as associate clinical professor of medicine at USC and consultant in internal medicine at the San Fernando Veterans Hospital, I became the first full-time director of medical education at Glendale Adventist Hospital and was also program director of the internal medicine residency there.” When internal medicine residencies were phased out of many community hospitals, he established a family practice residency at Glendale Adventist Hospital, but could not remain as program director because the American Board of Family Practice would continue to accredit the program only if the director was certified in Family Practice. So he made a mid-career switch to pathology. Upon completion of his residency at LACGH in 1976, he joined the group at Kettering Medical Center. He was also associate clinical professor of Pathology at Wright State University School of Medicine until 1994, when he retired at age 65.