James L. Pirkle Jr., MD
- Associate Professor, Nephrology

James L. Pirkle Jr., MD
Research Interests
- Peritoneal Dialysis
- Nutrition
- Hemodialysis
- Education
- BS, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999
- MD, University of Alabama - Birmingham, 2003
- Residency
- Internal Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, 2006
- Fellowship
- Nephrology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 2009
- Board Certifications
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine, Nephrology
- Positions
- Associate Professor, Nephrology
- Departments and Affiliations
- Nephrology
Research
- Association of Hyperchloremia With Unfavorable Clinical Outcomes in Adults With Diabetic Ketoacidosis. Goad NT, Bakhru RN, Pirkle JL, Kenes MT. J Intensive Care Med. 2020 Nov; 35(11):1307-1313.
- Development and application of a high throughput one-pot extraction protocol for quantitative LC-MS/MS analysis of phospholipids in serum and lipoprotein fractions in normolipidemic and dyslipidemic subjects. Gardner MS, Kuklenyik Z, Lehtikoski A, Carter KA, McWilliams LG, Kusovschi J, Bierbaum K, Jones JI, Rees J, Reis G, Pirkle JL, Barr JR. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2019 Jun; 1118-1119:137-147.
- Quantification of hypoglycin A and methylenecyclopropylglycine in human plasma by HPLC-MS/MS. Sanford AA, Isenberg SL, Carter MD, Mojica MA, Mathews TP, Laughlin S, Thomas JD, Pirkle JL, Johnson RC. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2018 Sep; 1095:112-118.
- Collaborative Method Performance Study of the Measurement of Nicotine, Its Metabolites, and Total Nicotine Equivalents in Human Urine. Wang L, Bernert JT, Benowitz NL, Feng J, Jacob P, McGahee E, Caudill SP, Scherer G, Scherer M, Pluym N, Doig MV, Newland K, Murphy SE, Caron NJ, Sander LC, Shimizu M, Yamazaki H, Kim S, Langman LJ, Pritchett JS, Sniegoski LT, Li Y, Blount BC, Pirkle JL. Cancer Epidemiol. Biomarkers Prev. 2018 09; 27(9):1083-1090.
- Quantitative HPLC-MS/MS analysis of toxins in soapberry seeds: Methylenecyclopropylglycine and hypoglycin A. Sanford AA, Isenberg SL, Carter MD, Mojica MA, Mathews TP, Harden LA, Takeoka GR, Thomas JD, Pirkle JL, Johnson RC. Food Chem. 2018 Oct; 264:449-454.