James Kirklin

James K. Kirklin, M.D.

Surgeon - Cardiothoracic
University of Alabama in Birmingham

Medical SchoolHarvard Medical School1973InternshipMassachusetts General Hospital1973 – 1974ResidencyMassachusetts General Hospital1974 – 1977FellowshipChildren’s Hospital, Boston1979University of Alabama at Birmingham1979 – 1981 

Adult congenital heart diseaseCongenital heart disease surgeryPediatric congenital heart diseaseCardiac surgical researchMechanical circulatory support deviceVentricular assist device (VAD)Adult cardiac transplantationHeart transplantationHeart/Lung TransplantationPediatric cardiac transplantationSurgical Outcomes Research 

Dr. Kirklin has authored over 500 scientific publications and was first author on the premier textbook on Heart Transplantation. He is also co-author of the 4th Edition of the Cardiac Surgery textbook.
Dr. Kirklin and his colleagues at UAB established the Cardiac Transplant Research Database in 1990, which generated the first multi-institutional collaborative research in heart transplantation, producing numerous seminal publications over a 20-year span. 
In 1993, Kirklin and his UAB research group initiated the Pediatric Heart Transplant Study Group (PHTS), which continues to lead the field in multi-institutional studies.
  Currently Dr. Kirklin is Principal Investigator of the $15 million NIH-sponsored national Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (INTERMACS). 
 

                                     Undergraduate:        Ohio State University, 1965-1969       Medical School:
Harvard Medical School, 1969-1973(Alpha Omega Alpha Academic Honor Society)  

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