Kelly Chin, M.D.

Medical School	UT Southwestern Medical Center (1996)
Internship/Residency	UT Southwestern Medical Center (2000), Internal Medicine
Fellowship	University of California at San Diego School of Medicine (2005)

• Lung (Pulmonology)
• Pulmonary Hypertension

• Primary Interests
• Pulmonary Hypertension

• Pulmonary Hypertension

Featured Publications

Characterizing the right ventricle: advancing our knowledge.

Chin KM, Coghlan G Am. J. Cardiol. 2012 Sep 110 6 Suppl S3-8

International Classification of Diseases coding changes lead to profound declines in reported idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension mortality and hospitalizations: implications for database studies.

Link J, Glazer C, Torres F, Chin K Chest 2011 Mar 139 3 497-504

Long-term outcomes with ambrisentan monotherapy in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Blalock SE, Matulevicius S, Mitchell LC, Reimold S, Warner J, Peshock R, Torres F, Chin KM J. Card. Fail. 2010 Feb 16 2 121-7

Pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Chin KM, Rubin LJ J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 2008 Apr 51 16 1527-38

Is methamphetamine use associated with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension?

Chin KM, Channick RN, Rubin LJ Chest 2006 Dec 130 6 1657-63

Left atrial structure and function and clinical outcomes in the general population.

Gupta S, Matulevicius SA, Ayers CR, Berry JD, Patel PC, Markham DW, Levine BD, Chin KM, de Lemos JA, Peshock RM, Drazner MH European heart journal 2012 Jul

Surgical Treatments for Pulmonary Hypertension.

Chin KM, Torres F In Pulmonary Hypertension. A Patient?s Survival Guide. RJ Oudiz, MD, ed. 2011

Idiopathic and Heritable Pulmonary Hypertension: Introduction to Pathophysiology and Clinical Aspects.

Chin KM, Torres F, Rubin LJ In Pulmonary Circulation. LJ Rubin, AJ Peacock, eds. 2011

Hemodynamics and epoprostenol use are associated with thrombocytopenia in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Chin KM, Channick RN, de Lemos JA, Kim NH, Torres F, Rubin LJ Chest 2009 Jan 135 1 130-6

Telomere shortening in familial and sporadic pulmonary fibrosis.

Cronkhite JT, Xing C, Raghu G, Chin KM, Torres F, Rosenblatt RL, Garcia CK Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 2008 Oct 178 7 729-37

• Finalist, Alfred Soffer Research Award
  ACCP Original Research Award (2007)
• College of Natural Sciences College Scholar Award
  (1992)
• Southwestern Medical Foundation Medical School Scholarship 1992-1996
  (1992)
• College of Natural Science Dean’s Honor List 1989-1992
  (1990)
• University of Texas at Austin Academic Scholarship 1989-1992
  (1989)

• American College of Chest Physicians
• American Medical Association
• American Thoracic Society
• Pulmonary Hypertension Association