Joseph A. Kern, MD

About Dr. Kern

Dr. Kern was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to complete his undergraduate education in Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. Upon graduation Joe moved to Zambia as a Community Health Volunteer for the United States Peace Corps. Upon completion of his service, Joseph returned to Chicago, where he completed his Medical Degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.

During medical school he has completed significant research in cardiovascular disease; participating in outcomes research for catheterization procedures as well as studying the role of chronic inflammation in development of microvascular disease. While in medical school he has also done significant work in community engagement on the South side of Chicago and has developed an interest and passion in helping to  improve diversity in medicine; working through pipeline programs for high school students, recruitment efforts for pre-medical college students and support programming for minority medical students. He hopes to leverage his experience in community and global health to better understand barriers to surgical access and care on both a local and global scale.

Societies

• Pennsylvania Medical Society
• American Medical Association

Awards

2020 - 2021
Student Member, Pritzker School of Medicine Admissions Committee

2019
AMA Foundation Association of Black Cardiologist Scholarship

Research

2019 - 2020
Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Northwestern Medicine
Dr. Sanjiv Shah, MD

2017 - 2019
Section of Cardiology, University of Chicago Medicine
Dr. John EA Blair, MD

2012 - 2013
Translational Neuroscience Program
Colleen McClung and Angela Ozburn, PhD

2011 - 2012
Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center
Duncan Clark, MD/PhD    

Publications

Published Journal Articles

1. Kern JA, Medina FA, Lee L, Kaur K, Nathan S, Blair JEA. Use of prospective radiobrachial angiography in transradial cardiac catheterization and intervention [published online ahead of print, 2019 Oct 18]. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2019;S1553-8389(19)30654-2. doi:10.1016/j.carrev.2019.10.005.
2. Lee L, Kern J, Blair J, Rosenberg J, Lee M, Nathan S. Clinical determinants of radial caliber at the time of transradial cardiac catheterization using routine prospective radiobrachial angiography. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2018;19(8):939-943. doi:10.1016/j.carrev.2018.08.025.
3. Kern JA, Cisneros M, Nathan S, Blair JEA. Novel Approaches to percutaneous intervention in stage IV kidney disease. Case Report.  J Clin Intervent Cardiol. 2018, 3(1):1-3.
4. Purohit K, Parekh PK, Kern J, Logan RW, Liu Z, Huang Y, McClung CA, Crabbe JC, Ozburn AR. Pharmacogenetic Manipulation of the Nucleus Accumbens Alters Binge-like Alcohol Drinking in Mice.  Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.  2018 May 42 (5): 879-888.
5. Ozburn AR, Kern J, Parekh PK, Logan RW, Liu Z, Falcon E, Becker-Krail D, Purohit K, Edgar NM, Huang Y. McClung CA. NPAS2 Regulation of Anxiety-Like Behavior and GABAA Receptors. Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience. 2017 Nov 3; 10: 360.

Posters/Abstracts

1. Kong N, Raspberry K, Lee L, Kern J, Medina F, Kaur K, Friant J, Nathan S, Blair J. E. (2020). Angiographic Evaluation of the Ulnar Artery to Assess Potential Suitability for Transulnar Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 75(11 Supplement 1), 1131. doi:10.1016/S0735-1097(20)31758-7.
2. Medina F, Kern J, Lee L, Kaur K, Nathan S, Blair J EA. Use of Prospective Radiobrachial Angiography in Transradial Cardiac Catheterization and Intervention. Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions 2019 Scientific Sessions.
3. Lee L, Kern J, Kaur K, Rosenberg J, Lee M, Matsukage H, Wali E, Blair JEA, Nathan S. Use of Routine, Prospective Radiobrachial Angiography Helps Ensure Procedural Success in a Radial-First Approach. Cardiovascular Research Foundation Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Meeting 2018.
4. Lee L, Kern J, Blair J,  Rosenberg J, Lee M, Nathan S. (2018). CRT-100.91 Assessment of the Clinical Determinants of Radial Artery Diameter Using Routine Prospective Forearm Angiography in Transradial Coronary Angiography. JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions. 11. S26. 10.1016/j.jcin.2018.01.081.
5. Lee L, Kern J, Kaur K, Blair JEA, Rosenberg J, Lee M, Nathan S. Routine prospective use of forearm radial angiography in transradial cardiac catheterizations: Prevelance of anatomic variants and predictors of procedural success. American College of Cardiology 2018 Scientific Session.
6. Ozburn AR, Logan R, Parekh P, Huang Y, Kern JA, Purhoit K, McClung CA(2014) Effects of Pharmacogenetic Manipulation of the Nucleus Accumbens on Neuronal Activity and Alcohol-Related Behaviors. Gordon Research conference on Alcohol. Also presented at American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
7. Kern JA, Pajtek S, Vanyukov M, Clark DB. Executive cognitive function, substance use disorders and the superior longitudinal fasciculus. Presented at the 35th Annual Research Society on Alcoholism Scientific Meeting. June 23-27, 2012, San Francisco, CA [Research Society on Alcoholism Student Travel Award].
8. Kern JA, Pajtek S, Vanyukov M, Clark DB. Executive cognitive function, substance use disorders and the superior longitudinal fasciculus (abstract). Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 36 (1s): 47A, 2012.
9. Ozburn AR; Kern JA; Purohit K; Logan R; McClung CA. (2012) Effects of Pharmacogenetic Manipulation of the Nucleus Accumbens on Neuronal Activity and Alcohol Seeking Behaviors.