He obtained his PhD from Hahnemann University (now Drexel University) and a Master’s in Public Health from Tulane University School of Public Health. Dr. Kima performed postdoctoral studies at Yale University prior to joining the University of Florida. He is a member of the American society of Microbiologists and the American Society of Tropical Medicine in which he is on the Program committee. He has been an ad hoc reviewer for NIH special emphasis grants as well as Score grants. At the University of Florida he teaches a course in Human Parasitology that has an enrollment each year of approximately 220 students. His primary research is focused on the cell biology of Leishmania infections.