2014-Chief, Medicine Health Care Group, VA Long Beach Health Care System， Research Interests ：Interventional Cardiology Education and Practice, Acute coronary syndromes, Hemodynamics, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy， Honors（selected）: 2014 Master, Society of Cardic Angiography and Intervention， 2013 Elite Reviewer, Journal of American College of Cardiology， 2012 Elite Reviewer, Cathand Cardiovascular Intervention， 2011- ‘Best Doctors in America’, peer listing US News and World Report， 2010 ‘Best Doctors in America’, peer listing US News and World Report， 2010 ‘Best Cardiologists in Orange County’, peer listing, OC Register， 2009 Simon Dack Award, Outstanding Scholarship from the JACC， 2008 Southern California ‘Super’ Doctors (Cardiology), Orange Co Mag ， Research Abstract： oang KC, Thompson C, Patel PM, Hendricks MJ, Wong ND, Kern MJ. Association of modified syntax score with nirs lipid core coronary plaque assessment in patients with coronary artery disease: data from the color registry. Soc Cardiac Angiography and Intervention Scientific Sessions, Cath and Cardiovascular Interven, 75:S117: 2010. Hoang KC, Thompson C, Patel PM, Hendricks MJ, Wong ND, Kern MJ. Association of serum lipids with NIRS lipid core coronary plaque burden in patients with coronary artery disease: Data from the COLOR registry. Soc Cardiac Angiography and Intervention Scientific Sessions, Cath and Cardiovascular Interven, 75:S107: 2010. Townsend JC, Steinberg DH, Nielsen CD, Todoran TM, Zwerner PL, McCarty CP, McManus WJ, Sneed JD, Patel CP, Leonardi RA, Brilakis ES, Shunk KA, Goldstein JA, Kern MJ. Intracoronary lipid burden at bifurcations: Results from the COLOR Registry. Circulation. 2010;122:A1， Publications（selected）: Kern MJ. (Ed.) The Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, 5th Edition, Elsevier, Philadephia, 2011, 456 pages， Kern MJ (Ed). The Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook. 3rd Edition, Elsevier, Philadelphia, 2012, 450 pages. Kern MJ (ed). Hemodynamic Rounds: Interpretation of cardiac pathophysiology from pressure waveform analysis. 3ed. Wiley-Liss, New York, 2009; 473 pages， Kern MJ (Ed.). The SCAI Interventional Cardiology Board Review, 2nd edition. Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams and Wilkens, Philadelphia, PA, 459 pages, 2013. Kern MJ (Ed). The SCAI Interventional Cardiology Review Book. Wolters Kluwer Lippincott Williams and Wilkens, Philadelphia, PA. 2007, 301 pages Selected from 298 peer reviewed publications