Kelly Chin, M.D.

Kelly Chin, MD, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.  She specializes in pulmonary hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, and is the Medical Director for the Pulmonary Hypertension Program.  She also leads a multispecialty research group focused primarily on research involving pulmonary diseases, including multiple clinical trials and observational studies. 

Dr. Chin received her medical degree from UT Southwestern, where she also completed her residency in internal medicine.  She then completed a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of California, San Diego, and after returning to UT Southwestern, completed a Master of Science in Clinical Sciences at UT Southwestern. 

In addition to treating patients, Dr. Chin has served as a principal investigator on many phase II, III and IV clinical trials in pulmonary hypertension. She has also served as a steering, advisory or adjudication committee member for multiple pulmonary hypertension observational studies and clinical trials.  She previously served as a section editor for the journal Advances in Pulmonary Hypertension, and is currently serving as an Associate Editor for Circulation (2015-current.)   

Texas Monthly has named Dr. Chin a Super Doctor for the past several years. She is board certified in pulmonary disease and in critical care medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Medical School

UT Southwestern Medical School (1996)

Residency

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2000), Internal Medicine

Fellowship

University of California at San Diego School of Medicine (2005), Pulmonary Diseases & Critical Care Medicine

• Pulmonary Hypertension

Featured Publications

Prognostic Value of Echocardiographic Variables Before and After Initiation of Parenteral Prostacyclin Therapy: An Observational Study.

Shah T, Manthena P, Patel C, Chuah A, Hardin EA, Torres F, Bartolome SD, Chin KM, Chest 2022 Apr

Three- Versus Two-Drug Therapy for Patients With Newly Diagnosed Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.

Chin KM, Sitbon O, Doelberg M, Feldman J, Gibbs JSR, Grünig E, Hoeper MM, Martin N, Mathai SC, McLaughlin VV, Perchenet L, Poch D, Saggar R, Simonneau G, Galiè N, J Am Coll Cardiol 2021 Oct 78 14 1393-1403

Association of NT-proBNP and Long-Term Outcome in Patients with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Insights from the Phase III GRIPHON Study.

Chin KM, Rubin LJ, Channick R, Di Scala L, Gaine S, Galié N, Ghofrani HA, Hoeper MM, Lang IM, McLaughlin VV, Preiss R, Simonneau G, Sitbon O, Tapson VF, Circulation 2019 Apr

Selexipag for the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension.

Sitbon O, Channick R, Chin KM, Frey A, Gaine S, Galiè N, Ghofrani HA, Hoeper MM, Lang IM, Preiss R, Rubin LJ, Di Scala L, Tapson V, Adzerikho I, Liu J, Moiseeva O, Zeng X, Simonneau G, McLaughlin VV N. Engl. J. Med. 2015 Dec 373 26 2522-33

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

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

"Treat-to-close": Non-repairable ASD-PAH in the adult: Results from the North American ASD-PAH (NAAP) Multicenter Registry.

Bradley EA, Ammash N, Martinez SC, Chin K, Hebson C, Singh HS, Aboulhosn J, Grewal J, Billadello J, Chakinala MM, Daniels CJ, Zaidi AN, Int. J. Cardiol. 2019 Sep 291 127-133

Differentiating Precapillary From Postcapillary Pulmonary Hypertension.

Naeije R, Chin K, Circulation 2019 Aug 140 9 712-714

Discordance between Imaging Modalities in the Evaluation of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: A Combined Experience from Two Academic Medical Centers.

Furfaro D, Azadi J, Housten T, Kolb TM, Damico RL, Hassoun PM, Chin K, Mathai SC, Ann Am Thorac Soc 2019 Feb 16 2 277-280

 Featured Books

Pulmonary Hypertension. In Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine

Chin KM, Channick RN. (2015).

Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension. In Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Chin K, Fedullo P. (2006).

Surgical Treatments. In Pulmonary Hypertension. A Patient's Survival Guide

Chin KM, Torres F (2011).

• 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)

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