KathrynBrawleyKirklandMD

Infectious Disease • Lebanon, NH

Professor, Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine

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Office
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
One Medical Center Drive
Lebanon, NH 03756
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Education & Training

Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Mary Hitchcock Memorial HospitalResidency, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2012 - 2014
Duke University HospitalFellowship, Infectious Disease, 1990 - 1993
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus)Residency, Internal Medicine, 1986 - 1990
Geisel School of Medicine at DartmouthClass of 1986

Certifications & Licensure

NH State Medical License 1999 - 2025
VA State Medical License 1996 - 2000
NC State Medical License 1993 - 1999
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Hospice and Palliative Medicine

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

After Dying Alone: The Restorative Power of Narrative Practice.
Kathryn B Kirkland, Amy Price> ;Anesthesiology. 2022 Sep 1
2 citations
Psychometric assessment of the consideRATE questions, a new measure of serious illness experience, with an online simulation study.
Catherine H Saunders, Marie-Anne Durand, Kathryn B Kirkland, Meredith A MacMartin, Amber E Barnato, Glyn Elwyn> ;Patient Education and Counseling. 2022 Jul 1
7 citations
Rural Palliative Care Patients' Attitudes toward Telemedicine Visits during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive Study.
Kathleen Broglio, Kathryn B. Kirkland> ;Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2021 Apr 20
7 citations
User-Centered Design of the consideRATE Questions, a Measure of People's Experiences When They Are Seriously Ill
Catherine H. Saunders, Marie-Anne Durand, Peter Scalia, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Meredith MacMartin, Amber E. Barnato, David Wilson Milne, Joan Collison, Ashleigh Jaggars,...> ;Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2021 Mar 1
3 citations
Serious Choices: A Systematic Environmental Scan of Decision Aids and Their Use for Seriously Ill People Near Death.
Catherine H. Saunders, Khusbu Patel, Hyunkyung Kang, Glyn Elwyn, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Marie-Anne Durand> ;Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2019 May 1
3 citations
Proportion of Decedents’ Expenditures Among Recent Reductions in Medicare Expenditures
William B. Weeks, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Connor Freeh, James Neil Weinstein> ;JAMA Internal Medicine. 2018 May 1
4 citations
Exploring the Surgical Gaze Through Literature and Art.
Kathryn B. Kirkland, Sienna R. Craig> ;JAMA. 2018 Apr 17
18 citations
A Person-Centered, Registry-Based Learning Health System for Palliative Care: A Path to Coproducing Better Outcomes, Experience, Value, and Science
Arif H. Kamal, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Diane E. Meier, Tamara S. Morgan, Eugene C. Nelson, Steven Z. Pantilat> ;Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2018 Mar 1
9 citations
Serious Choices: A Protocol for an Environmental Scan of Patient Decision Aids for Seriously Ill People at Risk of Death Facing Choices about Life-Sustaining Treatments
Catherine H. Saunders, Glyn Elwyn, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Marie-Anne Durand> ;The Patient. 2018 Feb 1
Walking the Shoreline: Erosion, Regrowth, and Professional Formation
Kathryn B. Kirkland> ;JAMA. 2017 Dec 19
1 citations
Finding Joy in Practice: Cocreation in Palliative Care
Kathryn B. Kirkland> ;JAMA. 2017 May 23
10 citations
Acceptability and Impact of a Required Palliative Care Rotation with Prerotation and Postrotation Observed Simulated Clinical Experience during Internal Medicine Resid...
Maxwell T. Vergo, Sharona Sachs, Meredith MacMartin, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Amelia Cullinan, Lisa A. Stephens> ;Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2017 May 1
34 citations
Physician attitudes toward the use of fecal microbiota transplantation for the treatment of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection
Jonathan S. Zipursky, Tivon I. Sidorsky, Carolyn A Freedman, Misha N. Sidorsky, Kathryn B. Kirkland> ;Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology. 2014 Apr 9
112 citations
Immune responses in infants whose mothers received Tdap vaccine during pregnancy.
Abbey J Hardy-Fairbanks, Stephanie J. Pan, Michael D. Decker, David R. Johnson, David P. Greenberg, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Elizabeth A. Talbot, Henry H. Bernstein> ;The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 2013 Nov 1
17 citations
Effect of varying the number and location of alcohol-based hand rub dispensers on usage in a general inpatient medical unit.
Benjamin P. Chan, Karen Homa, Kathryn B. Kirkland> ;Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2013 Jul 26
129 citations
Patient Attitudes Toward the Use of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in the Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection
Jonathan S. Zipursky, Tivon I. Sidorsky, Carolyn A Freedman, Misha N. Sidorsky, Kathryn B. Kirkland> ;Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2012 Sep 18
4 citations
Uncertainty in the Application of Contact Precautions
Daniel J. Morgan, Kathryn B. Kirkland> ;Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2012 Aug 1
73 citations
Impact of a hospital-wide hand hygiene initiative on healthcare-associated infections: results of an interrupted time series
Kathryn B. Kirkland, Karen Homa, Rosalind A. Lasky, Judy Ptak, Eileen Taylor, Mark E Splaine> ;BMJ Quality & Safety. 2012 Jan 1
76 citations
Cost-Effectiveness of Preoperative Nasal Mupirocin Treatment in Preventing Surgical Site Infection in Patients Undergoing Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty: A Cost-Effec...
Xan F. Courville, Ivan Tomek, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Marian Birhle, Stephen R. Kantor, Samuel R.G. Finlayson> ;Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 2012 Jan 6
13 citations
Does Tetanus-Diphtheria-Acellular Pertussis Vaccination Interfere with Serodiagnosis of Pertussis Infection?
Lucia C. Pawloski, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Andrew L. Baughman, Monte D. Martin, Elizabeth A. Talbot, Nancy E. Messonnier, Maria Lucia Tondella> ;Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 2012 Jun 1
45 citations
Use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers as a risk factor for norovirus outbreaks in long-term care facilities in northern New England: December 2006 to March 2007
David D. Blaney, Elizabeth R. Daly, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Jon Eric Tongren, Patsy Tassler Kelso, Elizabeth A. Talbot> ;American Journal of Infection Control. 2011 May 1
8 citations
Determining next steps in a hand hygiene improvement initiative by examining variation in hand hygiene compliance rates.
Karen Homa, Kathryn B. Kirkland> ;Quality Management in Health Care. 2011 Apr 1
107 citations
Hand contamination of anesthesia providers is an important risk factor for intraoperative bacterial transmission.
Randy W. Loftus, Matthew K Muffly, Jeremiah R. Brown, Michael L. Beach, Matthew D. Koff, Howard L. Corwin, Stephen D. Surgenor, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Mark P. Yeager> ;Anesthesia and Analgesia. 2011 Jan 1
83 citations
The safety of immunizing with tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) less than 2 years following previous tetanus vaccination: experience during a mass ...
Elizabeth A. Talbot, Kristin Brown, Kathryn B. Kirkland, Andrew L. Baughman, Scott A. Halperin, Karen R. Broder> ;Vaccine. 2010 Nov 23
11 citations
The Role for Clinician Educators in Implementing Healthcare Improvement
David P. Stevens, Kathryn B. Kirkland> ;Journal of General Internal Medicine. 2010 Aug 25
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Hospital Affiliations

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical CenterLebanon, New Hampshire