Thomas J. Kulik MD died unexpectedly on January 6, 2021, after arriving home following working a long day shift in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital.
After completing his fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Kulik joined the faculty at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical. Dr. Kulik was a NIH funded researcher of pulmonary arterial hypertension and pulmonary vascular disease. After a few years in Boston, he served as Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Cardio-Thoracic Unit at the C.S Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan for 13 years. After a 2-year stint at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center, Tom returned to the Boston Children's Hospital as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension in Children program as well as the Interim Director of the Cardiac IntensiveCare Unit. Tom was a widely recognized leading pediatric cardiologist and cardiac intensivist – a thought leader in cardiac intensive care for children.