Dr. Kathryn Brawley Kirkland M.D.
Infectious Disease Specialist | Infectious Disease
1 Medical Center Dr Dhmc Palliative Medi Lebanon NH, 03756About
Dr. Kathryn Kirkland is an infectious disease specialist practicing in Lebanon, NH. Dr. Kirkland specializes in infections that are difficult to diagnose or unresponsive to treatments, such as HIV or airborne infections from a foreign country. Infectious disease specialists usually work with conditions that are not treatable by a primary physician but it is important to keep contact with the primary physician in order to receive information about the patients history and for deciding which diagnostic tests are appropriate.
Education and Training
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth 1986
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Infectious Disease
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- 1989
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Adverse effects of contact isolation.
- The impact of surgical-site infections in the 1990s: attributable mortality, excess length of hospitalization, and extra costs.
- The name game: lamivudine-lamotrigine dispensing error presenting as human immunodeficiency virus-associated fever of unknown origin.
- A pseudo-outbreak of Aureobasidium species lower respiratory tract infections caused by reuse of single-use stopcocks during bronchoscopy.
- The impact of surgical-site infections following orthopedic surgery at a community hospital and a university hospital: adverse quality of life, excess length of stay, and extra cost.
- An outbreak of pertussis in a hematology-oncology care unit: implications for adult vaccination policy.
- Risk factors for Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea on an adult hematology-oncology ward.
- Real-time polymerase chain reaction detection of Bordetella pertussis DNA in acellular pertussis vaccines.
- Long-term outcomes following infection with meticillin-resistant or meticillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus.
- Taking off the gloves: toward a less dogmatic approach to the use of contact isolation.
- Variability in the Hawthorne effect with regard to hand hygiene performance in high- and low-performing inpatient care units.
- Improving the simple, complicated and complex realities of community-acquired pneumonia.
- Bacterial colonization: can we live with it?
- Kinetics of pertussis immune responses to tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine in health care personnel: implications for outbreak control.
- From quid pro quo to quid pro bono: reshaping the influence of industry on health care epidemiologists.
Fellowships
- Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, Infectious Diseases 1990
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