Dr. James Kirklin is Professor and Division Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery. He graduated from Ohio State University where he excelled as a springboard and tower diver, twice receiving All-American Honors.
Consistently cited in "Best Doctors in America", Dr. Kirklin's current clinical interests focus on surgery for pediatric and adult congenital heart disease, heart transplantation, and mechanical circulatory support.
His many research interests involve cardiac transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, and outcomes research in cardiac surgery. Dr. Kirklin and his colleauges 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.
Outside of medicine, Dr. Kirlin's passions in clude scuba diving (Master Scuba Diver), yachting and the ocean. |
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