Gokhan Kalkan, M.D.

Biography

Gokhan Kalkan, M.D., is an Associate Professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical Center Dallas. He is dual-trained in pediatric critical care and pediatric infectious diseases, a combination that provides unique expertise in the management of complex, high-acuity, and diagnostically challenging cases. His clinical work focuses on severe infections, sepsis, respiratory failure, and infections in critically ill children, with a strong emphasis on antimicrobial stewardship and evidence-based decision making.

Dr. Kalkan earned his medical degree from Marmara University School of Medicine in Istanbul, Turkey. He completed pediatrics residency training at Hacettepe University Children’s Hospital in Ankara, followed by a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine through the joint program at the University of California, San Francisco, and Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland. He later completed pediatric residency training and a pediatric infectious diseases fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

Before joining UT Southwestern’s faculty, Dr. Kalkan served as Division Chief of Pediatric Critical Care, and Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship Program Director at Gazi University Hospital in Ankara, Turkey. At UT Southwestern, he is Director of the Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, where he focuses on improving the safe and effective use of antibiotics in hospitalized children.

Dr. Kalkan is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in General Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases. He has published extensively on pediatric sepsis, respiratory failure, and outcomes in critically ill children. His background in both critical care and infectious diseases also informs his interest in diagnostic accuracy, case analysis, quality review, and the evaluation of missed or evolving diagnoses.