Doctor's Bio
Board Certifications
American Board of Internal Medicine
Affiliations
Emory
Education & Training
- Medical School: University of Florida College of Medicine
- Residency: Emory University School of Medicine
Fellowships
Emory University School of Medicine
Locations and Directions
Grady Memorial Hospital
Phone: (404) 616-1000
Location:
80 Jesse Hill Jr Drive SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Publications
- Optimal Timing of Adjuvant Therapy in Patients with Poorly Differentiated Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma.
Shah MM, Mavani PT, Goyal S, Kooby DA, Sarmiento JM, Kempker JA, Fishbein TM, Kennedy TJ, Gillespie TW
Annals of surgical oncology. 2026;
PMID: 41697473 - Temporal Trends, Setting, and Timing of Palliative and Hospice Care in COPD in the Veterans Health Administration, 2010-2020.
Smirnova N, Cross SH, Kempker JA, Sullivan DR, Reinke LF, Smallwood N, Plumley R, Duan K, Feder SL, Ma Y, Vaughan C, Au D, Kavalieratos D
CHEST pulmonary. 2025;
PMID: 41567707 - Bronchodilator Response in COPD: Definitions, Reference Equations, and Race.
Russell ST, Lama VN, Kempker JA
Chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (Miami, Fla.). 2025;12(5):450-454.
PMID: 40774292 - Derivation of FAST CLOTS: A Multivariable Risk Assessment Model for Postoperative Venous Thromboembolism.
Mlaver E, Sharma J, Hechenbleikner EM, Kempker JA
The Journal of surgical research. 2025;
PMID: 40378667 - An updated comparison of standard and novel FEV1 indices' association with all-cause mortality.
Russell ST, Kang M, Kempker JA
PloS one. 2025;20(5):e0323681.
PMID: 40373056 - A Data-driven Approach to Selecting Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellows for Interviews.
Kempker JA, Mehta AJ, Allam JS
ATS scholar. 2025;6(1):85-93.
PMID: 39855149 - Rapid and Robust Identification of Sepsis Using SeptiCyte RAPID in a Heterogeneous Patient Population.
Balk R, Esper AM, Martin GS, Miller RR, Lopansri BK, Burke JP, Levy M, Rothman RE, D'Alessio FR, Sidhaye VK, Aggarwal NR, Greenberg JA, Yoder M, Patel G, Gilbert E, Parada JP, Afshar M, Kempker JA, van der Poll T, Schultz MJ, Scicluna BP, Klein Klouwenberg PMC, Liebler J, Blodget E, Kumar S, Mei XW, Navalkar K, Yager TD, Sampson D, Kirk JT, Cermelli S, Davis RF, Brandon RB
Journal of clinical medicine. 2024;
PMID: 39457994 - Toward an Equitable Future in Critical Care Medicine.
Brown CE, Chuang EJ, Kempker JA
Critical care clinics. 2024;40(4):xv-xvii.
PMID: 39218489 - Definitions and Denominators ICU Utilization: What Do the Numbers Really Tell Us?
Kempker JA, Bhavani SV
Critical care medicine. 2024;52(9):1478-1481.
PMID: 39145704 - Validation of SeptiCyte RAPID to Discriminate Sepsis from Non-Infectious Systemic Inflammation.
Balk R, Esper AM, Martin GS, Miller RR, Lopansri BK, Burke JP, Levy M, Opal S, Rothman RE, D'Alessio FR, Sidhaye VK, Aggarwal NR, Greenberg JA, Yoder M, Patel G, Gilbert E, Parada JP, Afshar M, Kempker JA, van der Poll T, Schultz MJ, Scicluna BP, Klein Klouwenberg PMC, Liebler J, Blodget E, Kumar S, Navalkar K, Yager TD, Sampson D, Kirk JT, Cermelli S, Davis RF, Brandon RB
Journal of clinical medicine. 2024;
PMID: 38592057
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