Overview
Dr. Katherine King is board certified in pediatrics and joined Capital Area Pediatrics in January 2026. Previously she worked as a pediatrician with Kaiser Permanente in Falls Church and with a small practice in Alameda, CA.
Dr. King completed her pediatric residency at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland in 2013. She received her medical degree in 2010 from the University of Virginia, where she also completed her undergraduate studies in Chemistry in 2006.
A native of the Northern Virginia area, Dr. King currently lives in Falls Church with her husband and two young sons. She enjoys finding new parks, playgrounds, and activities to try with her boys and running or baking when she finds time.
Dr. King is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Obesity in Children. Her top areas of expertise are Obesity in Children, Increased Head Circumference, and Asthma in Children.
Insurance
Accepted insurance can change. Please verify directly with the provider.
Accepted insurance plans:
- HMO
- POS
- PPO
- EPO
- HMO
- POS
- HMO
- INSURANCE PLAN
- MANAGED MEDICAID PLAN
- MEDICARE MAPD
- MEDICARE PDP
- OTHER MEDICARE
- POS
- PPO
- INSURANCE PLAN
- MANAGED MEDICAID PLAN
- MEDICARE MAPD
- MEDICARE PDP
- MEDICARE SNP
- MEDICARE-MEDICAID PLAN
- OTHER MEDICARE PART D
- INSURANCE PLAN
- MANAGED MEDICAID PLAN
- MEDICARE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
- MEDICARE MAPD
- MEDICARE SNP
- OTHER COMMERCIAL
- OTHER MEDICARE
- OTHER MEDICARE PART D
Locations
407 N Washington St, Suite 100, Falls Church, VA 22046
The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Dr. Perrin is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Primary Care in the Department of Pediatrics and the Schools of Medicine and Nursing. She has a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship Program-trained clinician investigator whose area of research expertise is patient-oriented preventive care, health services research, health disparities, and the prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity. She has also developed, disseminated, and studied many tools to help pediatricians in practice prevent and treat obesity including the color-coded BMI charts that many use in outpatient practice. She has been the lead on numerous grants (including a multi-site randomized controlled trial NIH R01 and its renewal) on obesity and children’s health. She was previously faculty at UNC (where she won the Hettleman award, the highest award for university scholarship) and Duke. She has held previous roles as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Division Chief of Primary Care Pediatrics, founding Director of the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, and a fellowship director of the National Clinicians Scholars Program at Duke University. She previously served as the national chair for the Academic Pediatrics Association Research Committee. Dr. Perrin is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Obesity in Children. Her top areas of expertise are Obesity in Children, Premature Infant, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Hypertension.
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Areas of Expertise
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Learn more about MediFind’s expert tiers
- Experienced
- Asthma in ChildrenDr. King isExperienced. Learn about Asthma in Children.
- Increased Head CircumferenceDr. King isExperienced. Learn about Increased Head Circumference.
- Obesity in ChildrenDr. King isExperienced. Learn about Obesity in Children.