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Tara Karamlou, M.D., M.Sc.

Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Dr. Tara Karamlou is a pediatric heart surgeon who specializes in neonatal, pediatric and adult congenital heart surgery at the Pediatric Heart Center of UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. She treats a variety of congenital heart defects in collaboration with the echocardiography service, Catheterization Lab, electrophysiology program and Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Karamlou also treats patients in the Adult Congenital Heart Program, which focuses on surgery for adults with congenital heart defects. She is an assistant professor of surgery in the Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Karamlou received a medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine with high honor, and a master's degree in biostatistics at the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto. She completed a general surgery residency at Oregon Health Science University and cardiothoracic surgery residency at the University of Michigan. She completed a pediatric cardiac surgery fellowship at Seattle Children's Hospital and joined UCSF in July 2012. Since coming to UCSF, Karamlou has participated in the conception and implementation of a home monitoring program to improve outcomes for patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome.

Her patient care and research interests focus on clinical outcomes, quality improvement and health policy directives in pediatric cardiac surgery, single ventricle lesions and adult congenital heart disease. She is a member of several committees directing research endeavors within the Society of Thoracic Surgeons' Congenital Heart Surgery Database, and currently is directing three national research studies for the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

Conditions & Treatments

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Education

George Washington University Baylor School of Medicine 1996

Residencies

Oregon Health and Science University, General Surgery 2008
University of Michigan Medical Center, Cardiothoracic Surgery 2009
Oregon Health and Science University, Cardiothoracic Surgery 2010
Seattle Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery 2011

Fellowships

Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, Congenital Heart Surgeons Society Data Center, Research Fellow 2006
Seattle Children's Hospital, Congenital Cardiac Surgery Fellow 2012

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Karamlou T, Poynter JA, Walters HL, Rhodes J, Bondarenko I, Pasquali SK, Fuller SM, Lambert LM, Blackstone EH, Jacobs ML, Duncan K, Caldarone CA, Williams WG, McCrindle BW. Long-term functional health status and exercise test variables for patients with pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum: A Congenital Heart Surgeons Society study. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013 Apr; 145(4):1018-1027.e3.
  2. Karamlou T, Vafaeezadeh M, Parrish AM, Cohen GA, Welke KF, Permut L, McMullan DM. Increased extracorporeal membrane oxygenation center case volume is associated with improved extracorporeal membrane oxygenation survival among pediatric patients. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2013 Feb; 145(2):470-5.
  3. Karamlou T, Gelow J, Diggs BS, Tibayan FA, Mudd JM, Guyton SW, Slater MS, Song HK. Mechanical circulatory support pathways that maximize post-heart transplant survival. Ann Thorac Surg. 2013 Feb; 95(2):480-5.
  4. Karamlou T, Diggs BS, Welke K, Tibayan F, Gelow J, Guyton SW, Slater MS, Broberg C, Song HK. Impact of single-ventricle physiology on death after heart transplantation in adults with congenital heart disease. Ann Thorac Surg. 2012 Oct; 94(4):1281-7; discussion 1287-8.
  5. Karamlou T, Diggs BS, McCrindle BW, Welke KF. A growing problem: maternal death and peripartum complications are higher in women with grown-up congenital heart disease. Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Dec; 92(6):2193-8; discussion 2198-9.
  6. Walker WL, Karamlou T, Diggs BS, Ehieli EI, Caddell KA, de la Cruz JS, Welke KF. Geography or pathology? Regional variation in atrial septal defect closure rates and techniques. Cardiol Young. 2011 Oct; 21(5):577-84.
  7. Karamlou T, Kinder K, Tieu B, Sauer D, Schipper P. Mediastinal hemangioma arising in setting of partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage to azygous vein in a 57-year-old woman. Ann Vasc Surg. 2011 May; 25(4):559.e13-7.
  8. Karamlou T, Diggs BS, Ungerleider RM, Welke KF. Adults or big kids: what is the ideal clinical environment for management of grown-up patients with congenital heart disease? Ann Thorac Surg. 2010 Aug; 90(2):573-9.
  9. Karamlou T, Hirsch J, Welke K, Ohye RG, Bove EL, Devaney EJ, Gajarski RJ. A United Network for Organ Sharing analysis of heart transplantation in adults with congenital heart disease: outcomes and factors associated with mortality and retransplantation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2010 Jul; 140(1):161-8.
  10. Caddell KA, Diggs BS, de la Cruz JS, Walker W, Ehieli E, Karamlou T, Ungerleider RM, Welke KF. Common ground: measuring intrainstitutional mortality among pediatric surgical procedures. Surgery. 2011 Jan; 149(1):7-14.
  11. Welke KF, Karamlou T, Ungerleider RM, Diggs BS. Mortality rate is not a valid indicator of quality differences between pediatric cardiac surgical programs. Ann Thorac Surg. 2010 Jan; 89(1):139-44; discussion 145-6.
  12. Welke KF, Diggs BS, Karamlou T. Chance, bias, and confounding: threats to valid measurement of quality in the context of pediatric cardiac surgery. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu. 2010; 13(1):79-83.
  13. Karamlou T, McCrindle BW, Blackstone EH, Cai S, Jonas RA, Bradley SM, Ashburn DA, Caldarone CA, Williams WG. Lesion-specific outcomes in neonates undergoing congenital heart surgery are related predominantly to patient and management factors rather than institution or surgeon experience: A Congenital Heart Surgeons Society Study. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2010 Mar; 139(3):569-577.e1.
  14. Karamlou T, Diggs BS, Ungerleider RM, Welke KF. Evolution of treatment options and outcomes for hypoplastic left heart syndrome over an 18-year period. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2010 Jan; 139(1):119-26; discussion 126-7.
  15. Karamlou T, Bernasconi A, Jaeggi E, Alhabshan F, Williams WG, Van Arsdell GS, Coles JG, Caldarone CA. Factors associated with arch reintervention and growth of the aortic arch after coarctation repair in neonates weighing less than 2.5 kg. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2009 May; 137(5):1163-7.
  16. Welke KF, Diggs BS, Karamlou T, Ungerleider RM. Comparison of pediatric cardiac surgical mortality rates from national administrative data to contemporary clinical standards. Ann Thorac Surg. 2009 Jan; 87(1):216-22; discussion 222-3.
  17. Checchia PA, Karamlou T, Maruszewski B, Ohye RG, Bronicki R, Dodge-Khatami A. Haematological and infectious complications associated with the treatment of patients with congenital cardiac disease: consensus definitions from the Multi-Societal Database Committee for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease. Cardiol Young. 2008 Dec; 18 Suppl 2:226-33.
  18. Welke KF, Karamlou T, Diggs BS. Databases for assessing the outcomes of the treatment of patients with congenital and paediatric cardiac disease--a comparison of administrative and clinical data. Cardiol Young. 2008 Dec; 18 Suppl 2:137-44.
  19. Karamlou T, Diggs BS, Person T, Ungerleider RM, Welke KF. National practice patterns for management of adult congenital heart disease: operation by pediatric heart surgeons decreases in-hospital death. Circulation. 2008 Dec 2; 118(23):2345-52.
  20. Karamlou T, Diggs BS, Ungerleider RM, McCrindle BW, Welke KF. The rush to atrial septal defect closure: is the introduction of percutaneous closure driving utilization? Ann Thorac Surg. 2008 Nov; 86(5):1584-90; discussion 1590-1.

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