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Rahul Koka

Rahul Koka, MD, MPH

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Anesthesiology

Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
  • Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty

Languages

  • English

14 Insurances Accepted

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Gender

Male

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

Johns Hopkins Children's Center

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

  1. The Johns Hopkins Hospital
    • 1800 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21287

    Expertise

    Education

    Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health

    Graduate School, MPH, 2013

    Boston Children's Hospital

    Fellowship, 2009

    Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Residency, Anesthesiology, 2008

    University of Vermont College of Medicine

    Medical Education, MD, 2004

    Board Certifications

    Pediatric Anesthesiology

    American Board of Anesthesiology, 2015

    Anesthesiology

    American Board of Anesthesiology, 2010

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    • Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)