Dr. Geoffrey Kurland
Overview
Geoffrey Kurland, MD, is director of the Pediatric Lung Transplant Program at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is board-certified in pediatrics, pediatric pulmonology, and allergy and immunology. Dr. Kurland is a native of Baltimore, Maryland, and received his medical degree from Stanford University. He completed an internship and residency in pediatrics at Stanford University Medical Center followed by a fellowship in pediatric allergy, immunology, and pulmonology, and a research and clinical fellowship in adult and pediatric pulmonology, both also at Stanford University Medical Center. His first full-time academic appointment was at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California. He moved to Pittsburgh in 1988 and has remained on the faculty here since that time. Dr. Kurland considers himself primarily a clinician. He has special expertise and interest in pediatric flexible bronchoscopy, childhood interstitial lung disease, as well as pediatric lung transplantation. His clinical patients, however, cover the wide range of pediatric pulmonary problems and include interstitial lung disease, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, asthma, cystic fibrosis, and numerous other diagnoses leading to end-stage lung disease requiring transplantation. Dr. Kurland’s research interests include interstitial lung disease in infants and children and novel approaches to transplant graft surveillance. He is a PI or Co-PI on many of the clinical research projects in his division. He has lectured at many institutions nationally and internationally. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles, as well as 13 book chapters. He has also written a book describing his own experience as a patient with Leukemia. Dr. Kurland is married to Kristen S. Kurland, who is a teaching professor of architecture and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Kurland’s hobbies include music (guitar), writing, reading, and painting. A former ultramarathon runner (50-100 mile distance), his knees now allow mainly rowing (water rower) or other less jarring activities (elliptical or biking), which Dr. Kurland tries to do on a daily basis.
Dr. Kurland is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infantile Pneumothorax. His top areas of expertise are Gastroesophageal Reflux in Infants, Infantile Pneumothorax, and Endoscopy.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 29 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
4401 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15224
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
Jonathan Spahr is a Pediatric Pulmonologist and a Pulmonary Medicine provider in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Spahr is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Infantile Pneumothorax. His top areas of expertise are Cystic Fibrosis, Secondary Immunodeficiency (SID), Newborn Jaundice, and Jaundice.
Areas of Expertise
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- EndoscopyDr. Kurland isExperienced. Learn about Endoscopy.
- Gastroesophageal Reflux in InfantsDr. Kurland isExperienced. Learn about Gastroesophageal Reflux in Infants.
- Infantile PneumothoraxDr. Kurland isExperienced. Learn about Infantile Pneumothorax.