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Julius R. Krevans
Julius R. Krevans (1924–2015) was an American internist and hematologist who served as dean of the UCSF School of Medicine from 1971 and chancellor from 1982 to 1993.
K-CADASIL study
K-CADASIL (NCT07497867) is a 10-year, multicenter prospective observational cohort of about 500 Korean CADASIL patients led by Jeju National University Hospital, tracking stroke, dementia, MRI small vessel disease burden, and NOTCH3 genetics from 2023 to 2040.
KAEPacity study
KAEPacity study (NCT07440329): observational, mixed-methods document analysis of German hospital emergency and disaster plans (KAEP), 319 hospitals, led by Lea Kölsch with University Hospital Heidelberg, started March 2026, no clinical interventions.
Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente, also called KP, is an Oakland, California-based integrated managed care consortium founded in 1945 by Sidney Garfield and Henry J. Kaiser, serving about 12.4 million members through nonprofit health plan, hospitals, and Permanente Medical Groups.
Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement
Kalaupapa Leprosy Settlement is a historic isolation settlement on a peninsula on Molokai, Hawaii, where about 8,000 people with Hansen's disease were exiled from 1866 to 1969.
Kathleen A. McCormick
Kathleen A. McCormick is an American nurse-scientist and nursing-informatics leader, a National Academy of Medicine member who co-authors the Essentials of Nursing Informatics textbook with Virginia Saba.
Kendall M. Campbell
Kendall Marvin Campbell is an American family physician and academic who chairs Family Medicine and Community Health at UTMB Galveston, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2021.
Kenneth B. Wells
Kenneth B. Wells is an American psychiatrist and health services researcher at UCLA who developed collaborative care for depression and won the 2018 Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health.
Kenneth D. Mandl
Kenneth D. Mandl is an American pediatrician and biomedical informatician who directs CHIP at Boston Children's Hospital, holds a Harvard professorship, and won a PECASE award for automated biosurveillance.
Kenneth David Mandl
Kenneth David Mandl is an American pediatrician and biomedical informatician who directs the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children's Hospital and is known as the architect of SMART on FHIR.
Kenyatta National Hospital
Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) is Kenya's largest public referral and teaching hospital in Upper Hill, Nairobi, founded in 1901 and sitting at Level 6, the apex of the country's health system.
KETProject trial
KETProject (KETAMIM, NCT04234776) was a University of São Paulo Phase 4 quadruple-blind trial of intramuscular ketamine 0.75 mg/kg versus escitalopram plus aripiprazole in treatment-resistant depression, reporting comparable efficacy and no serious events.
KHB study
KHB (KIDSHEART AND BRAIN, NCT05658965) is a recruiting single-center observational cohort at University Hospital, Lille, enrolling 50 infants under 1 year undergoing congenital heart surgery on extracorporeal circulation, testing whether pre- and postoperative EEG predicts neurodevelopmental disorders at 24 months.
Khyber Teaching Hospital
Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) is a public tertiary care teaching hospital in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, and the teaching hospital of Khyber Medical College, inaugurated in 1977.
King Abdulaziz Medical City
King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC-RD, مدينة الملك عبدالعزيز الطبية) is the National Guard Health Affairs tertiary hospital complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, opened 1982-1983, with 1,973 beds serving National Guard personnel and families.
King Abdullah University Hospital
King Abdullah University Hospital (KAUH), Irbid, Jordan: JUST-affiliated teaching and referral hospital with 683 beds (up to 800), serving over 1 million people in northern Jordan; HCAC accredited 2019, Gold 2022. Distinct from King Abdullah the Founder Hospital, Ramtha, and Saudi KAAUH.
King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital
King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital (โรงพยาบาลจุฬาลงกรณ์), opened 30 May 1914, is the Thai Red Cross Society's main public teaching hospital in Bangkok, run with Chulalongkorn University's Faculty of Medicine; 1,200–1,400 beds, tertiary referral care, and research.
King Khalid University Hospital
King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH) is the 800-bed teaching hospital of King Saud University's College of Medicine in Riyadh, inaugurated by King Khalid in 1982, expanded to 1,200 beds in 2016, and CBAHI-accredited.
King's College Hospital
King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, Camberwell, London: NHS teaching hospital founded 1840 by Robert Bentley Todd, moved to Camberwell 1913, Foundation Trust since 2006, major trauma centre and leading liver transplant unit.
Kiyoshi Kurokawa (黒川清)
Kiyoshi Kurokawa (黒川清) is a Japanese nephrologist and health-policy scholar, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and GRIPS, who chaired the National Diet's Fukushima nuclear accident investigation commission.
KNOW-CKD study
KNOW-CKD (KoreaN Cohort Study for Outcome in patients With Chronic Kidney Disease) is South Korea's nationwide prospective chronic kidney disease cohort, begun in 2011 under the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency; Phase I enrolled 2,238 adults at nine tertiary hospitals.
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital
Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), public tertiary teaching hospital in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana; founded 1954 as Kumasi Central Hospital, teaching hospital since 1975; Ghana's second-largest, ~1,200 beds, KNUST medical training site, referral center for 13 of 16 regions.
KorAHF study
KorAHF (Korean Acute Heart Failure registry): prospective Korean cohort of 5,625 acute heart failure hospitalizations at 10 tertiary hospitals, 2011–2014; in-hospital mortality 4.8%, distinctively low admission blood pressure, later integrated with KorHF III.
Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA, 질병관리청), South Korea's independent central disease control agency, successor to KCDC; runs national immunization (19 mandatory diseases), infectious disease surveillance, chronic disease programs from Osong.
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH), Accra, Ghana's oldest and largest public teaching hospital, founded October 9, 1923 as the Gold Coast Hospital; 2,000 beds, national referral centre, University of Ghana Medical School training site, four Centres of Excellence.
Kurt W. Deuschle
Kurt W. Deuschle (1923–2003) was a German-born American physician, called a forefather of American community medicine by The Lancet, who led community medicine at Mount Sinai from 1968 to 1990.
LABS-2 study
LABS-2 (Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery-2), NCT00465829: NIDDK-funded US observational cohort of 2,458 adults undergoing first bariatric surgery 2006–2009 at 10 hospitals, followed up to 7 years for weight, comorbidity, and mortality outcomes.
LAC L-134/33 trial
LAC L-134/33 (NCT07652827) is a completed randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial by Universidad de Concepción, Chile, testing a 12-week daily capsule of Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus L-134 and Limosilactobacillus fermentum L-33 in 22 adults with lactose intolerance and intestinal methanogenic overgrowth.
Lagos University Teaching Hospital
Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, Lagos: Nigeria's federal teaching hospital for the University of Lagos, established 1961-1962, with 46 clinical departments, nine training schools, and the NSIA-LUTH Cancer Centre.
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (Lahey Clinic), founded 1923 by Frank Lahey in Boston, is a nonprofit teaching hospital in Burlington, Massachusetts, and a Beth Israel Lahey Health member since the 2019 merger with BIDMC.