Kimberly M. Molina,
MD
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Kimberly Molina, MD is a member of the division of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Primary Children’s Hospital. Dr. Molina is the Medical Director of Heart Transplantation at PCH and in her practice sees children with all forms of heart disease, while specializing in the care of patients with heart failure and cardiomyopathy, as well as those individuals who go on to require cardiac transplantation.
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Pediatrics
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Associate Professor (Clinical) |
| Academic Divisions | Pediatric Cardiology |
| Board Certification | American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Cardiology) |
Kimberly Molina, MD is a member of the division of Pediatric Cardiology at the University of Utah School of Medicine and Primary Children’s Hospital. Dr. Molina is the Medical Director of Heart Transplantation at PCH and in her practice sees children with all forms of heart disease, while specializing in the care of patients with heart failure and cardiomyopathy, as well as those individuals who go on to require cardiac transplantation.
Academic Locations
Board Certification and Academic Information
| Academic Departments | Pediatrics
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Associate Professor (Clinical) |
| Academic Divisions | Pediatric Cardiology |
| Board Certification | American Board of Pediatrics (Sub: Pediatric Cardiology) |
Research Interests
- Transplant Rejection
- Heart Failure
- Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging
- Myocarditis
Education History
| Fellowship | Baylor College of Medicine Pediatric Cardiology Fellow, 2010 |
| Residency | University of Washington Pediatrics Resident, 2007 |
| Professional Medical | University of California, San Francisco Medicine M.D., 2004 |
| Undergraduate | Stanford University Human Biology, conferred with honors B.A., 1999 |
Selected Publications - Journal Articles
Journal Article
- Sirota M, Heyrend C, Ou Z, Masotti S, Griffiths E, Molina K (2021). Impact of tacrolimus variability on pediatric heart transplant outcomes. Pediatr Transplant, 25(7), e14043.
- Brown T, Chen S, Ou Z, McDonald N, Bennett-Murphy L, Schneider L, Giles L, Molina K, Cox D, Hoskoppal A, Glotzbach K, Stehlik J, May L (2021). Feasibility of Assessing Adolescent and Young Adult Heart Transplant Recipient Mental Health and Resilience Using Patient-Reported Outcome Measures. J Acad Consult Liaison Psychiatry, 63(2), 153-162.
- McFarland CA, Truong DT, Pinto NM, Minich LL, Burch PT, Eckhauser AW, Lal AK, Molina KM, Ou Z, Presson AP, May LJ (2020). Implications of Left Ventricular Dysfunction at Presentation for Infants with Coarctation of the Aorta. Pediatr Cardiol, 42(1), 72-77.
- Everitt MD, Wilkinson JD, Shi L, Towbin JA, Colan SD, Kantor PF, Canter CE, Webber SA, Hsu DT, Pahl E, Addonizio LJ, Dodd DA, Jefferies JL, Rossano JW, Feingold B, Ware SM, Lee TM, Godown J, Simpson KE, Sleeper LA, Czachor JD, Razoky H, Hill A, Westphal J, Molina KM, Lipshultz SE, Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry Investigators (2019). Cardiac Biomarkers in Pediatric Cardiomyopathy: Study Design and Recruitment Results from the Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry. Prog Pediatr Cardiol, 53, 1-10.
- Barfuss S, Knackstedt ED, Jensen K, Molina K, Lal A (2018). Cardiac allograft vasculopathy following fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent C. difficile infection. Transpl Infect Dis, 20(6), e12983.
- Floyd A, Lal A, Molina K, Puchalski M, Miller D, May L (2018). When Lightning Strikes Twice in Pediatrics: Case Report and Review of Recurrent Myocarditis. Pediatrics, 141(3).
- Selamet Tierney ES, Hollenbeck-Pringle D, Lee CK, Altmann K, Dunbar-Masterson C, Golding F, Lu M, Miller SG, Molina K, Natarajan S, Taylor CL, Trachtenberg F, Colan SD, Pediatric Heart Network Investigators (2016). Reproducibility of Left Ventricular Dimension Versus Area Versus Volume Measurements in Pediatric Patients With Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging, 10(11).
- Molina K, Denfield S, Fan Y, Moulik M, Towbin J, Dreyer W, Rossano J (2013). Viral endomyocardial infection in the 1st year post transplant is associated with persistent inflammation in children who have undergone cardiac transplant. Cardiol Young, 24(2), 331-6.