Dr. Tara Karamlou joins Akron Children’s as a pediatric heart surgeon
01-09-2025 (Akron, Ohio)
Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc, has joined Akron Children’s as a pediatric heart surgeon.
Dr. Karamlou comes to Akron Children’s from Cleveland Clinic Children’s, where she was a pediatric cardiac surgeon and served as the program director of the Congenital Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship Program, among other roles.
She is a world-renowned expert in clinical outcomes research, with more than 280 peer-reviewed publications and holds national leadership positions in all cardiac surgery professional societies. Dr. Karamlou is a professor of surgery at Case Western Reserve University, and served as the director of the clinical outcomes, research, and registries at Cleveland Clinic.
Before working at the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Karamlou was a pediatric heart surgeon at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego and the director of the Cardiothoracic Research Institute at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. She was also the director of the California Congenital Consortium of Hospitals, where she led initiatives to improve care for babies in California.
After earning her medical degree with High Honor from Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Karamlou completed her general surgery residency at Oregon Health and Science University and completed her surgery residency at the University of Michigan and Oregon Health and Science University. She completed her pediatric congenital cardiac surgery fellowship at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
She was the second Kirklin-Ashburn Fellow at the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society and earned her Master of Science in biostatistics from the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto.
Akron Children’s Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Center gives children and young adults born with heart disease state-of-the-art diagnostics and treatment close to home. Akron Children’s cardiology and cardiac surgery programs were ranked no. 39 by in the Newsweek and Statista America's Best Children's Hospitals 2024 - Newsweek Rankings.
