J. Michael Kay

, MB, ChB, MD, FRCPC, FRCPath

Professor Emeritus
Pathology and Molecular Medicine

Division: Anatomical Pathology

McMaster University
2N25 Health Sciences Centre
905-521-2100 ext. 76276
kayj@mcmaster.ca

Education and Professional Standing

• FRCPC Anatomical Pathology, 1978
• FRCPath, 1978
• MD, University of Birmingham, UK 1968
• MCPath Morbid Anatomy and Histopathology, 1967
• MB, ChB, University of Birmingham, UK 1960

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Interests

Clinical Focus

Dr. Kay graduated in medicine from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom in 1960 and trained in pathology at the Universities of Bristol and Birmingham. He became interested in pulmonary pathology and pulmonary vascular disease while working with Dr. Donald Heath at the Universities of Birmingham and Liverpool, and Dr. Robert Grover at the Cardiovascular Pulmonary Research Laboratory in the University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, Colorado. Dr. Kay has been a member of the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University since 1977 where he is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine. He has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers, book chapters and review articles relating to his clinical and research interests in pulmonary pathology, pulmonary vascular disease and drug-induced lung disease.

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Selected Publications

• Kay, J.M. & Heath, D.,Crotalaria spectabilis the pulmonary hypertension plant. Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1969.
• Kay, J.M., Smith, P., & Heath,D. Aminorex and the pulmonary circulation. Thorax, 1971, 26, 262-270.
• Kay, J.M. & Edwards, F.R. Ultrastructure of the alveolar-capillary wall in mitral stenosis. Journal of Pathology, 1973, 111, 239-245.
• Kay, J.M. Effect of continuous and intermittent normoxia on chronic hypoxic pulmonary hypertension, right ventricular hypertrophy and polycythemia inrats.American Review of Respiratory Disease, 1980, 121, 993-1002.
• Kay, J.M. Comparative morphologic features of the pulmonary vasculature in mammals. American Review of Respiratory Disease, 1983, 128,S53-S57.
• Pietra, G.G., Edwards, W.D., Kay, J.M., Rich, S., Kernis, J., Schloo, B., Ayres, S.M., Bergofsky, E.H., Brundage, B.H., Detre, K.M., Fishman, A.P., Goldring, R.M., Groves, B.M., Levy, P.S., Reid, L.M., Vreim, C.E., & Williams, G.W.Histopathology of primary pulmonary hypertension. A qualitative and quantitative study of pulmonary blood vessels from 58 patients in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Primary Pulmonary Hypertension Registry. Circulation, 1989, 80, 1198-1206.
• Kay, J.M. Dietary pulmonary hypertension. Thorax, 1994, 49, S33-S38.
• Schraufnagel, D.E. & Kay, J.M. Structural and pathologic changes in the lung vasculature in chronic liver disease. Clinics in Chest Medicine, 1996, 17, 1-15.
• Kay, J.M. Drug-induced lung disease. In Spencer's Pathology of the Lung, fifth edition, edited by P.S. Hasleton. McGraw-Hill, New York, pp551-595, 1996.
• Kahana, L.M., Kay, J.M., Yakrus, M.A., & Waserman, S. Mycobacterium avium complex infection in an immunocompetent young adult related to hot tub exposure. Chest, 1997, 111, 242-245.
• Miller, J.D., Urschel, J.D., Cox, G., Olak, J., Young, J.E.M., Kay, J.M., & McDonald, E.A randomized controlled trial comparing thoracoscopy and limited thoracotomy for lung biopsy in interstitial lung disease Annals of Thoracic Surgery,  2000, 70, 1647-1650.
• Cyr, P.V., Vincic, L., & Kay, J.M. Pulmonary vasculopathy in idiopathic spontaneous pneumothorax in young subjects. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 2000, 124, 717-720.
• Kay, J.M. Pathology of advanced pulmonary vascular disease. In Non-Neoplastic Advanced Lung Disease, edited by J.R. Maurer, Marcel Dekker, New York, pp59-115, 2003
• Kay, J. M. Pulmonary Vascular Disease. In Thurlbeck’s Pathology of the Lung, third edition, edited by A.M. Churg, J. L. Myers, H.D. Tazelaar and J.L. Wright. Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, pp863-989, 2005