Dr. Geoffrey Kurland

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.

His clinical expertise encompasses Gastroesophageal Reflux in Infants, Infantile Pneumothorax, and Endoscopy.

Dr. Kurland is board certified in American Board Of Pediatrics , American Board Of Pediatrics , and American Board Of Allergy And Immunology. He is actively involved in clinical research, co-authoring 29 peer reviewed articles. Dr. Kurland is currently accepting new patients.