
Kimberly R. Best, MD
Kimberly R. Best, MD, is the Program Director of Psychiatry Residency Training at Albert Einstein Medical Center. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College in the Penn State-Jefferson Accelerated Program,
earning both her BS and MD in five years. She completed her internship at Wilmington Medical Center. She did her psychiatry
residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, and is board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology. She is currently an
advanced candidate at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. She actively encourages residents to take advantage of opportunities
for sampling the analytic world. She is a past president of the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, and the current secretary
of the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society. She values activity in the psychiatry community, and helps residents become involved
as well. With interests as broad as consultation psychiatry, religion, psychoanalysis, and advocacy, she understands the variety
that is available in psychiatry, and is well prepared to help each resident develop his or her individual talents.