Kay Kim, VMD, Diplomate ACVO
Dr. Kay Kim grew up in Closter, New Jersey. After graduating with honors from Princeton University in 2001, she received her veterinary medicine doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 2008. She completed a one-year rotating internship at Michigan State University, a one-year specialty internship at Long Island Veterinary Specialists, a three year residency in comparative ophthalmology at Cornell University, and achieved board certification as a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists in 2013. After 11 years of practice at Long Island Veterinary Specialists in New York, Dr. Kim is excited to be back in New Jersey as a member of the GSVS team.
Ophthalmology at GSVS WOODBRIDGE
Dr. Kim has extensive knowledge, training, and experience treating dogs and cats in need of ophthalmic care. She utilizes the very latest equipment and technology, aimed at preserving eye health and treating various conditions, while compassionately caring for your pet.
Routine Diagnostics
Performed at every initial examination
- Slit Lamp Biomicroscopy
- Indirect Ophthalmoscopy
- Schirmer Tear Testing (dogs)
- Fluorescein Staining
- Tonometry
Additional Diagnostics Available
Performed as indicated
- Gonioscopy
- Ocular Ultrasonography
- Electroretinography
- OFA Eye Certification Exams for Breeding Animals
Procedures/Surgeries
- Canthoplasty surgery for brachycephalic breeds
- Cataract surgery via phacoemulsification with synthetic lens replacement (intraocular lenses)
- Conjunctival grafts for deep corneal ulcers and perforations
- Contact lens placement
- Corneal graft surgery
- Cryotherapy for distichia and ectopic cilia
- Dermoid cyst removal
- Diamond burr debridement for indolent corneal ulcers
- Entropion and ectropion corrective surgery
- Entropion temporary eyelid tacking for young, growing dogs
- Enucleation (eye removal) surgery
- Eyelid mass removal
- Gunderson flap (thin conjunctival graft) surgery for corneal edema
- Intraocular (intracameral) TPA injections for fibrinous uveitis
- Intraocular (intravitreal) gentamicin injection for refractory glaucoma
- Laser treatment for glaucoma
- Lens luxation removal (Intracapsular Lens Extraction, ICLE)
- Parotid duct transposition (PDT) for refractory dry eye
- Prolapsed gland of the third eyelid repair (“cherry eye” surgery)
- Prosthesis surgery (evisceration with intraocular prosthesis)
- Superficial keratectomy for corneal sequestra
- And many more
Common Eye Problems We Diagnose and Treat
- Cataracts
- Conjunctivitis
- Corneal degeneration
- Corneal sequestrum
- Corneal ulcers and perforations
- Dermoid cysts
- Distichia, ectopic cilia, and trichiasis
- Ectropion
- Entropion
- Eyelid masses
- Feline herpesvirus
- Glaucoma
- Indolent ulcers
- Keratitis
- Keratoconjunctivitis sicca (dry eye)
- Lens luxation
- Orbital masses
- Proptosis
- Retinal degeneration including SARDS and PRA
- Retinal detachment
- Uveitis
- And many more