
Rahul Koka, MD, MPH
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About Rahul Koka
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Background
Dr. Rahul Koka is an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His area of clinical expertise is anesthesiology.
Dr. Koka received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from Bowdoin College. He earned his M.D. from the University of Vermont College of Medicine and a M.P.H. from Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and performed a fellowship in pediatric anesthesiology at Children’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Koka joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2012.
His research interests include health disparities, patient safety and pediatric airway.
Centers and Institutes
Research Interests
Health disparities, Patient safety, Pediatric airway
Lab Website
Rahul Koka Lab - Lab Website
- Research in the Rahul Koka Lab focuses on pediatric airways, patient safety and health disparities. Recent studies have focused on the relationship between socioeconomic status and perioperative outcomes and patient safety factors related to interoperative cardiac arrests. We also performed effects analyses of the maintenance and repair of anesthetic equipment in various medical environments.
Research Summary
Dr. Koka’s research includes:
- Health disparities - currently looking at socioeconomic status and perioperative outcomes
- Patient safety - currently looking at factors related to intraoperative cardiac arrests
- Pediatric airway
Selected Publications
Fauza D., Marler, J, Koka, R, Forse, J, Mayer, J, Vacanti, J., “Fetal Tissue Engineering: Diaphragmatic Replacement.” Journal of Pediatric Surgery, January 2001; 36 (1): 146-51.
Koka, R., Hadlock, T. “Quantification of functional recovery following rat sciatic nerve transection.” Journal of Experimental Neurology, 2001 March; 168(1): 192-5.
Marler, J, Guha, A, Rowley, J, Koka, R, Bonassar, L, Mooney, D, Upton, J, Vacanti, J. “Soft Tissue Augmentation with Injectable Alginate and Syngeneic Fibroblasts” Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, May 2000; 105(6): 2049-58.
Rosen MA, Lee BH, Sampson JB, Koka R, Chima AM, Ogbuagu OU, Marx MK, Kamara TB, Koroma M, Jackson EV Jr. “Failure mode and effects analysis applied to the maintenance and repair of anesthetic equipment in an austere medical environment.” Int J Qual Health Care, 2014 May 15.
Rosen MA, Sampson JB, Jackson EV Jr, Koka R, Chima AM, Ogbuagu OU, Marx MK, Koroma M, Lee BH. “Failure mode and effects analysis of the universal anaesthesia machine in two tertiary care hospitals in Sierra Leone.” Br J Anaesth, 2014 May 15.
Honors
- E.K. Van Swearingen Medical Scholarship, 1/1/00
- Partners in Excellence Award, Massachusetts General Hospital for Laboratory Research, 1/1/00
Locations
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital
- 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287
- phone: 410-955-5000
- fax: 410-955-5001
Expertise
Education
Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health
Graduate School, MPH, 2013Boston Children's Hospital
Fellowship, 2009Brigham and Women's Hospital
Residency, Anesthesiology, 2008University of Vermont College of Medicine
Medical Education, MD, 2004Board Certifications
Pediatric Anesthesiology
American Board of Anesthesiology, 2015Anesthesiology
American Board of Anesthesiology, 2010Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)