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Kyle Merrill, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Current Positions

  • Clinical Assistant Professor - Pediatrics - Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation

Education

  • BS - Engineering, Chemical Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
  • MS - Clinical and Translational Research, The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati Ohio
  • MD with Distinction in Research - The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
  • Residency in Pediatric Nephrology, The University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa
  • Fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Cincinnati Ohio

Research Interests

  • I am currently a clinical track faculty member who focuses most of my time on the clinical aspect of my job. My clinical areas of interest are primary two-fold with the first being pediatric kidney transplant medicine. I am currently working to complete the necessary united network for organ sharing (UNOS) criteria to become certified as a pediatric kidney transplant physician. The second being the growing field of critical care nephrology which includes different modalities of kidney support therapies (KST), acute kidney injury (AKI), and other extracorporeal therapies that can be utilized by the other solid organ transplant programs and growing the utilization of tandem extracorporeal therapies as well as new devices. My areas of academic interest include the utilization of novel biomarkers in patient care including AKI and kidney transplantation as well as quality improvement to help provide the best care possible to critically ill patients.
  • I am currently working to develop a quality assessment and improvement program for the continuous KST’s provided by our division as well as serve as a site primary investigator in a national collaborative for a neonatal and infant KST machine focused on both quality improvement and research. My other interests include the adaptation of novel devices, such as KST filters, machines and other technologies to the pediatric patient population as these patients have a different need and physiology compared to the adults that the devices were intended to be used to treat initially.

Licenses & Certifications

  • American Board of Pediatrics
  • Iowa Medical License
  • American Board of Pediatrics - Pediatric Nephrology

Selected Publications

  • Slagle C, Menon S, Selewski DT, Starr MC; On behalf Collaborative Co-Authors (Bakri Alzarka, Tecile Andolino, David Askenazi, Deirdre Bartlett, Abby Basalely, Eileen Ciccia, Neziha Celebi, Jennifer Charlton, Aftab Chishti, Brendan Crawford, Vikas Dharnidharka, Kathy Jabs, Caroline Jackson, Caroline Jarrell, Mona Khattab, Samantha Krieger, Jeanne Frisby-Zedan, Rosanna Fulchiero, Lindsey Gordon, Ronnie Guillet, Horace Rhodes Hambrick, Matthew Harer, Kathleen Herman, Lane Lanier, Clare Linder, Julia McDonald, Rachel Millner, Kyle Merrill, Davoud Mohtat, Claudia Mosquera, Robert Moy, Tahagod Mohamed, Arwa Nada, Vicky Norwood, Natalie Pudalov, Saritha Ranabothu, Kimberly Reidy, Mary Revenis, Sriya Roychaudhuri, Austin Rutledge, Elizabeth Sabroske, Keia Sanderson, George Schwartz, Jodi Smith, Emily Steinbach, Caroline Straatmann, Kouki Tomari, Ryan Ward, Laura Walawender, Tennille Webb, Melissa Zhou) Moving the neonatal nephrology field forward: results from the Pediatric Academic Society Neonatal Nephrology Focus Group. J Perinatol. 2024 Mar;44(3):441-443. doi: 10.1038/s41372-023-01791-5. Epub 2023 Nov 17. PMID: 37978216.
  • Hasson DE, Mohan S, Rose JE, Merrill KA, Goldstein SL, Benoit SW, Varnell CD; Ionized Magnesium Correlates with Total Magnesium in Children Post-Kidney Transplant. Ann Lab Med. 2024 Jan 1;44(1):21-28. doi: 10.3343/alm.2024.44.1.21. Epub 2023 Sep 4. PMID: 37665282; PMCID: PMC10485856.
  • Merrill K, Galbiati S, Mitsnefes M; NAPRTCS Investigators. Left ventricular hypertrophy in pediatric patients on maintenance dialysis: a report of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study (NAPRTCS). Pediatr Nephrol. 2022 Nov 10. doi: 10.1007/s00467-022-05796-8. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36357637.
  • Merrill KA, Krallman KA, Loeb D, Standage SW, Mattoon D, Shan D, Goldstein SL, Schuh MP. First-Time Use of the Seraph® 100 Microbind® Affinity Blood Filter in an Adolescent Patient with Severe COVID-19 Disease: A Case Report. Case Rep Nephrol Dial. 2023 Jan 27;13(1):1-6. doi: 10.1159/000527290. PMID: 36741548; PMCID: PMC9891843.
  • Kyle A Merrill MD; Assessment of Risk Factors of Delayed Graft Function in Pediatric Kidney Transplant Recipients. Thesis, Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Research, University of Cincinnati, August 2022.
  • Kyle Merrill, Shirley Galbiati, Mark Mitsnefe;. NAPRTCS Investigators. Left ventricular hypertrophy in pediatric patients on maintenance dialysis: a report of the North American Pediatric Renal Transplant Cooperative Study (NAPRTCS). Pediatr Nephrol. 2022 Nov 10. doi: 10.1007/s00467-022-05796-8. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36357637.
  • Kyle Merrill and Jason Misurac. Theophylline Use to Mitigate Acute Kidney Injury in Infants with Perinatal Asphyxia Undergoing Total Body Cooling. Manuscript being prepared for submission
  • Kyle Merrill, Kelli Goss, Laura Woods, Jessica Hook, Natalie Del Vecchio, Amanda Philliph, Deborah Wessels, David Soll, A. Paige Davis Volk. The Role of SHIP-1 as a Phosphatase in Neutrophil Chemotaxis. Thesis, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, MD Research Distinction Track, May 2016.
  • Volk APD, Goss K, Merrill K, Stolz S, Woods LA, McHugh W, Cornell TT. Mitogen-activated Protein Kinase Phosphatase 2 Regulates Granulopoiesis, Neutrophil Chemotaxis and Reactive Oxygen Species Generation. Submitted to Shock.