He sees patients in the general cardiology and aortopathy clinics. Dr. Kirkpatrick is one of the few ethics-trained cardiologists in the United States. He is Chair of the UWMC Ethics Committee and serves as a clinical ethics consultant. He lectures and performs research in the areas of ethics of cardiac devices, palliative cardiology, and echocardiography. He has held multiple leadership positions in cardiovascular societies in cardiovascular genetics and cardioethics.
Research interests: echocardiography, ventricular assist and other cardiac assist devices; the use of echocardiography in developing world nations; education and the practice of cardiac palliative care, especially for patients with cardiac devices; ethical issues in the practice of cardiology ("cardioethics")