Kenneth
R. McCurry, M.D., is assistant professor of surgery at the University
of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, division of cardiothoracic surgery,
and director of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s
(UPMC) Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation Program. Dr. McCurry
received his medical degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville
in 1987 and completed his general surgery residency and a fellowship
in critical care, research and ECMO at the University of Michigan
in Ann Arbor. Between 1993 and 1995, Dr. McCurry interrupted clinical
training to conduct research on human complement regulatory proteins
in xenotransplantation at Duke University. The research fellowship
was funded through a National Institutes of Health National Research
Service Award. He then returned to the University of Michigan to
pursue a two-year residency in thoracic surgery before coming to
the University of Pittsburgh in 1997, where he was named director
of the program in 2002.
UPMC’s Lung and Heart-Lung program is one of the oldest and most active programs in the United States. The first heart-lung transplant was performed, and since then more than 670 procedures have been performed.
In addition to his clinical responsibilities, Dr. McCurry’s research interests include transplant tolerance induction, methods of immunosuppression, chronic rejection and cold storage preservation of the lung. He is active in many research studies, including in collaboration with investigators at the University of Pittsburgh’s Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, and is a regular contributor at scientific congresses and to the scientific literature. He has authored or co-authored more than a 100 articles, abstracts and book chapters.
Among the societies in which he is an active member are The Transplantation Society, the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, the American Society of Transplantation, the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the American Medical Association, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American College of Chest Physicians.
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr. Kenneth R. McCurry
Phone: (412) 648-9783
Email: mccurrykr@upmc.edu