Brian F. Birnbaum, MD

Brian Birnbaum, MD, is a board-certified cardiologist on staff at Saint Luke’s Cardiovascular Consultants and Children’s Mercy Kansas City. His cardiology subspecialties include adult congenital heart disease, pulmonary hypertension, and heart failure/transplant.  He is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.  In addition, he is board certified in Internal Medicine, Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology. 
Dr. Birnbaum received his MD degree at the University of Colorado in Denver, Colorado, and completed his Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency at Nationwide Children’s Hospital/Ohio State University.  Further, he completed his Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship at St. Louis Children’s Hospital/Washington University, followed by Heart Failure/Heart Transplant training at Saint Luke’s Hospital Mid America Heart Institute.  As Medical Director of Children’s Mercy Kansas City’s Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic, Muscular Dystrophy Clinic, and Pediatric Heart Failure, Dr. Birnbaum is involved in multiple clinical research trials and has published numerous professional journal articles pertaining to his areas of clinical interest.