In practice at Pennsylvania Hospital since 1988, Matt L. Kirkland, MD has developed a practice focused on gastrointestinal and oncologic surgery. This includes surgical management of benign and malignant diseases of the breast, endocrine surgery, surgery of the gastrointestinal tract including complex hepatobiliary and pancreatic procedures (gall bladder, liver, bile duct, and pancreas), and abdominal wall hernias. As one of the first surgeons in the region doing laparoscopic general surgery he has acquired extensive experience with the minimally invasive approach for cholecystectomy, colon resection, splenectomy, antireflux surgery, esophageal myotomy, partial gastrectomy, abdominal wall hernias, and laparoscopic staging of abdominal malignancies.

Dr. Kirkland is board certified and a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. His papers and presentations have focused on laparoscopic cholecystectomy and its complications, the role of laparoscopy in the diagnosis and management of abdominal malignancies, and the surgical management of esophageal carcinoma.

Dr. Kirkland was listed in Philadelphia magazine's "top doc's" for 2002.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• American College of Surgeons (Fellow)
• American Medical Association
• American Society of Abdominal Surgeons (Fellow)
• American Society for Bariatric Surgery
• American Society of General Surgeons
• International College of Surgeons (Fellow)
• Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
• Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract

• Pennsylvania Medical Society
• Philadelphia County Medical Society

1. Azurin DJ, Go LS, Maslack M, Kirkland ML. Bile leak following laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Journal of Laparoscopic Surgery 5(4):233-236, Aug. 1995.
2. Azurin DJ, Go LS, Arroyo LR, Kirkland ML. Trocar site herniation following laparoscopic cholecystectomy and the significance of an incidental preexisting umbilical hernia. The American Surgeon 61(8):718-720, Aug. 1995.
3. Ahmad SA, Schuricht AL, Azurin DJ, Arroyo LR, Paskin DL, Bar AH, Kirkland ML. Complications of laparoscopic cholecystectomy: The experience of a university affiliated teaching hospital. Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques, Part A 7(1):29-35, Feb. 1997.
4. Azurin DJ, Go LS, Kirkland ML. Palliative gastric transposition following pharyngolaryngo-esophagectomy. The American Surgeon 63(5):410-413, May 1997.
5. Reviews in Peer Reviewed Research Publications
   Azurin DJ, Schuricht AL, Stoldt HS, Kirkland ML, Paskin DL, Bar AH. Small bowel obstruction following endoscopic extraperitoneal-preperitoneal herniorrhaphy. [Review] Journal of Laparoscopic Surgery 51(4):263-266, Aug. 1995.
6. Research Publications, Non-Peer-Reviewed
   Azurin DJ, Go LS, Kirkland ML. Laparoscopic evaluation of the liver. Surgical Rounds 406-411, Oct. 1995.
7. Abstracts (last three years)
   Kolakowski S Jr, Kirkland ML, Schuricht AL. Routine Postoperative barium swallow evaluation after roux-en-y gastric bypass: Is it necessary? Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons 2004 Scientific Session and Postgraduate Conference, April 1, 2004. (Poster Award: Poster of Distinction.)
8. Editorials, Chapters and Participation in Committee Reports
   Isaacson G, Mansfield PF, Kirkland ML. An atraumatic technique for diagnostic phlebotomy. [Letter] New England Journal of Medicine 313(23):1478, Dec. 5, 1985.
9. Kirkland, ML. Access options for enteral and parenteral nutrition. Chap. 16 in Skipper, AL (ed.): The Dietitian's Handbook of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition. Rockville, MD: Aspen Publications, 1989, 263-277.