Charles Porter
Professional Background
Dr. Charles Porter has been actively involved in heart failure and cardiac transplantation for over thirty years in Kansas City. He worked with Dr. William Reed to help launch the third heart transplant program in Missouri and the first in Kansas City in 1985. Dr. Porter subsequently received recognition as one of the first Medicare designated heart transplant cardiologists in Kansas City. Dr. Porter became one of the founding members of the Working Group of Transplant Cardiologists that developed the Transplant Cardiology Database, housed at the University of Alabama Birmingham, that provided clinical data supporting the publication of countless studies on the outcomes of cardiac transplant patients. He established membership in the International Society for Heart Transplantation in 1986 before it had expanded to its current form as the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. He was a co-author of the research paper that introduced and validated the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire that has subsequently become one of the leading patient-centered quality of life surveys in the world. His continuous care for cardiac transplant patients in Kansas City since 1985 has allowed him to guide many heart transplant patients to decades of survival as his patients now approaching 30 years of survival after transplant.
Nearly a decade ago he began collaborative work with the cancer specialists at KU Hospital that helped allow cancer patients who were developing heart failure due to their cancer treatment to continue their cancer treatments rather than be forced to stop or interrupt their vital cancer chemotherapies. Since then this field has expanded rapidly and is widely recognized as a specialty area known as Cardio-oncology. Dr. Porter is the founding Medical Director of cardio-oncology at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
- BS, Bachelor of Science, Southern Methodist Univ.
- MD, Doctor of Medicine, Univ. of Kansas-Medical Ctr.
- Internship, Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
- Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas
- Other, Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Texas Health Services Center, San Antonio, Texas
- America Heart Association, America Heart Association, Member, 2019 - Present
- JACC Cardiology Oncology - editorial board, Member, 2019 - Present
- Cardio-Oncology Journal, Reviewer, 2018 - Present
- International Cardio-Oncology Society, Research and Education Committee, Member, 2018 - Present
- International Cardio-Oncology Society, IC-OS Certifications credentials team, Ad-Hoc Member, 2018 - Present
- ACC, ACC Cardio-Oncology Patient Education Work Group, Member, 2016 - Present
- Cardio-Oncology, KU CV Medicine, Cardio-Oncology, Director, 2016 - Present
