James K. Kirklin, MD is Professor and Director in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is a co-author of Kirklin/Barratt-Boyes Cardiac Surgery, 4th Edition.
Dr. Kirklin received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and did his residencies at Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Toronto before performing fellowships at Children’s Hospital in Boston and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has board certification from the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
Dr. Kirklin is internationally known for his surgical expertise in cardiac surgery, congenital heart disease, heart and lung transplants, and LVAD placement surgery. He is past president of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, former editor-in-chief of the Journal for Heart and Lung Transplantation, and was a principal investigator of the NIH-sponsored INTERMACS, or Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support. Dr. Kirklin was also instrumental in the formation of the national Cardiac Transplant Research Database and the multi-institutional Pediatric Heart Transplant Study.
Dr. Kirklin followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the esteemed author team of Cardiac Surgery in its fourth edition. His father, Dr. John W. Kirklin was the co-author, with Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, of the first two editions of Cardiac Surgery.
Related Authors: Nicholas T. Kouchoukos, MD; Eugene H. Blackstone, MD; Frank L. Hanley, MD
