Hematology & Oncology
Division Chief Hematology and Oncology
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Craig S. Kitchens, M.D. Division of Hematology / Oncology Professor of Medicine 1600 SW Archer Road Box 100278 Gainesville, FL 32610-0278 |
Dr. Kitchens has spent his educational and professional life in Gainesville, FL. He joined the College of Medicine faculty in 1975 and currently is a Professor of Medicine. His outside interests include enjoying time on our many area springs and rivers as well as raising a small herd of black angus cattle with his physician wife. He has expertise in teaching and particularly enjoys referral of complicated hematology cases from other physicians. From 2002-2006, he served as Governor of the Florida Chapter of the American College of Physicians representing the interests of Florida’s 15,000 internal medicine doctors.
Training:
| Degree Program |
Institution | Field/Specialty |
| BS | University of Florida | Chemistry cum laude 1966 |
| MD | University of Florida | Medicine cum laude 1970 |
| Junior
Assistant Resident, Department of Medicine |
Duke University, Durham, NC 1971 1972 | |
| Senior
Assistant Resident, Department of Medicine |
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 1972 1973 | |
| Hematology
Fellow, Department of Medicine |
The Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD |
Hematology |
| Chief Resident | Department of Medicine, University of Florida | |
| Research Associate | VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida | |
| Assistant Professor | Department of Medicine, University of Florida | |
| Clinical Investigator | VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida | |
| Associate Professor | Department of Medicine, University of Florida | |
| Staff Physician | VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida | |
| Professor | Department of Medicine, University of Florida | |
| Chief | VA Medial Center, Gainesville, Florida | Medical Service |
| Vice-Chairman | Department of Medicine, University of Florida | |
| Housestaff Director | Department of Medicine, University of Florida | |
| Program Director | Department of Medicine, University of Florida | |
| Associate Chief of Staff | VA Medical Center, Gainesville, Florida | Education |
Academic Interests:
Dr. Kitchens’ primary interests have been in the area of hematology, particularly the mechanisms governing bleeding and thrombosis. He has published extensively in these areas and has edited the second edition of the leading textbook in consultative hemostasis and thrombosis. He has been very active in graduate medical education and in leading courses in continuing medical education for internal medicine physicians.
Clinical Interests:
Dr. Kitchens’ primary clinical efforts are directed toward the myriad hemostatic and thrombotic manifestations that are encountered in tertiary medical centers due to the complexity of transplant medicine, level I trauma, and cancer medicine as well as the rapidly advancing area of clinical thrombosis and hypercoagulability. He sees patients both within the University of Florida Medical Center and as outpatients from the entire Southeast in the consultative center. He also as an interest in envenomation by native poisonous snakes seeing about 30 patients a year. He helped develop the newest snake antivenom which is now regularly employed in this country. He has interests in medical-legal aspects of medical practice.
Research Interests:
Clinical hemostasis and thrombosis, coagulation testing, pre-operative testing, and disorders of platelets
Snake bite envenomation
Representative Publications:
- Kitchens CS: “The Consultative Process”, Chapter 1 in Kitchens CS, Alving BM, Kessler CM, eds, in CONSULTATIVE HEMOSTASIS AND THROMBOSIS, ed 2, Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2007, pp 3-15.
- Zumberg M, Kitchens CS: “Purpura and Other Hematovascular Disorders”, Chapter 11, in Kitchens CS, Alving BM, Kessler CM, eds, in CONSULTATIVE HEMOSTASIS AND THROMBOSIS, ed 2, Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2007, pp 159-182.
- LaBelle C, Kitchens CS: “Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation”, Chapter 12, in Kitchens CS, Alving BM, Kessler CM, eds, in CONSULTATIVE HEMOSTASIS AND THROMBOSIS, ed 2, Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2007, pp 183-209.
- Zumberg M, Kitchens CS: “Venous Thomboses at Unusual Sites”, Chapter 16, in Kitchens CS, Alving BM, Kessler CM, eds, in CONSULTATIVE HEMOSTASIS AND THROMBOSIS, ed 2, Elseveir, Philadelphia, 2007, pp 257-280.
- Kitchens CS: To bleed or not to bleed? Is that the question for the PTT? J Thromb Haemost 3:2607-2611, 2005.