Kathleen Delaney

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Personal Information
Last Name: 
Delaney
First Name: 
Kathleen
Home Town: 
Los Angeles, CA
Professional Information
Place of Employment: 
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Academic Rank: 
Professor
Position: 
Faculty
Undergraduate School: 
University of California at Los Angeles - Master of Science in Biochemistry
Medical School: 
Columbia University College of Physicans and Surgeons
Residencies: 
1980-1983, New York University, Bellevue Hospital Center - Internal Medicine
Fellowships: 
1985-1987, New York City Poison Control Center - Medical Toxicology
Research / Clinical Interests: 
  • Hypothermia
  • Hyperthermia and heat injury
  • Access to medical care, the emergency department as a safety net
  • Quality management and administration
  • All emergency clinical issues
Recent Publications: 
  • ed Ford MA, Delaney KA, Ling L, Erickson T, "Clinical Toxicology" pub W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia (Major text book), 2000
  • Delaney KA, "Biochemical Principles" In Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies, 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, Philadelphia, 2002
  • Delaney KA, "Impact of the Threat of Biological and Chemical Terrorism on Public Safety-Net Hospitals" The International Lawyer, Vol 36, No 1 Spring 2002
  • Velez LI, Larkin G, Delaney KA, "The Clinical Differentiation of Acute Biliary Pancreatitis From Acute Non-Biliary Pancreatitis: 264 Consecutive Cases From a Single Urban Hospital Emergency Department." Abstract, presented at the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, May 2003
  • Jimenez C, Delaney K, Larkin G, Drazner M, Anderson R, "Patterns of Emergency Department Utilization By Patients With Congestive Heart Failure" (in process)
Significant Publications: 
  • Delaney KA, Howland MA, Vassallo S, Goldfrank LR, "Assessment of acid-base disturbances in hypothermia and their physiologic consequences" Annals of Emergency Medicine, 18:72-82, 1989
  • Vassallo SU, Delaney KA, Hoffman RS, Slater W, Goldfrank LR, "A prospective evaluation of the electrocardiographic manifestations of hypothermia" Academic Emergency Medicine, 6:1121-1126, 1996
  • Delaney KA, Goldfrank LR, "Metabolic aspects of hyperthermia" In The Metabolic Basis of Acquired Disease, ed Katherine Watts, pub Balliere Tyndall, London, England, 1990
  • Delaney KA, "Hypothermic sudden death" In Paradis, Halperin & Nowak's Cardiac Arrest: The Pathophysiology and Therapy of Sudden Death, Pub Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, 1996
  • Delaney KA, Vassallo SU, Larkin GL, Goldfrank LR., "Rewarming Rates In Urban Patients With Hypothermia: Prediction of Underlying Infection." Academic Emergency Medicine 2006;13:913-921.
Honors & Awards: 
  • 1999 - Emergency Medicine Faculty Teacher of the Year
  • 2002 - National Association of Public Hospitals Fellowship for Physician Leaders (Funded by the Macy Foundation) 2002-2003
  • 2007 - UT Systems Academy for Health Science Education
  • 2008 - UT Southwestern Academy of Teachers
Biography

Dr. Kathleen Delaney is Professor of Surgery and Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and past Vice Chair of the Division of Emergency Medicine Department. She was also the Medical Staff President of Parkland Memorial Hospital. Dr. Delaney graduated AOA from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in 1980 and completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at New York University-Bellevue Hospital Center, followed by a fellowship in Medical Toxicology. She served as the Assistant Director of the Bellevue Hospital Emergency Department from 1985-1994. She is boarded in Internal Medicine, Medical Toxicology, and Emergency Medicine and is a fellow of the colleges of each. Dr. Delaney came to UT Southwestern Medical faculty in 1994 to help establish a residency training program in Emergency Medicine.