Kim M. Kerr, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

CLINICAL INTERESTS:

1. Pulmonary vascular disease
2. Reperfusion injury
3. ARDS/ALI

INVESTIGATIVE INTERESTS:

1. Reperfusion lung injury following PTE
2. ARDS/ALI

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

1. Auger WR, Moser KM, Comito RM, Kerr KM, Bernardi JL, Spragg RG. Efficacy of intravenous ICI 200,880 in the prevention of adult respiratory distress syndrome in patients undergoing pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1994; 149:A1032.
2. Kerr KM, Auger WR, Fedullo PF, Channick RN, Yi ES, Moser KM. Large vessel pulmonary arteritis mimicking chronic thromboendarterectomy. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1995; 152:367-73.
3. Kerr KM, Marsh JJ, Auger WR, Fedullo PF, Channick RN, Moser KM. Circulating selectins in patients undergoing surgical pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1995; 151:A186.
4. Kerr KM, Auger WR, Marsh JJ, Comito RM, Kapelanski DP, Moser KM. Selectin blockade with Cy-1053 may prevent reperfusion lung injury following pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1997; 155:A898.
5. Sompradeekul S, Fedullo PF, Kerr KM, Channick RN, Auger WR. The role of pulmonary angioscopy in the preoperative assessment of patients with thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1999; 159:A456.
6. Archibald CJ, Auger WR, Fedullo PF, Channick RN, Kerr KM, Jamieson SW, Kapelanski DP, Watt CN, Moser KM. Long term outcome after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1999; 160:523-8.
7. Auger WR, Channick RN, Kerr KM, Fedullo PF. Evaluation of patients with suspected chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Sem Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999;11:179-80.
8. Hastings RH, Auger WR, Kerr KM, Quintana RA, Deftos LJ. Parathyroid hormone-related protein and lung injury after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. Regul Pept. 2001; 102-7.
9. Fedullo PF, Auger WR, Kerr KM, Rubin LJ. Current concepts: chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. N Engl J Med 2001; 345:1464-1472.
10. Kerr KM, Rubin LJ. Epoprostenol therapy as a bridge to pulmonary thromboendarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Chest 2003; 123:319-320.
11. Kerr KM, Auger WR, Fedullo PF. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: when to suspect it, when to refer for surgery. Advances in pulmonary hypertension 2003; 2:4-8.