Curriculum Vitae

Suzanne Beth Karan, M.D.

Assistant Professor
Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychiatry
July, 2009

Work Address: Department of Anesthesiology

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Rochester, NY 14642
585-275-9455
Suzanne_Karan@urmc.rochester.edu
Education
May 1997, M.D. State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn,
Brooklyn, NY
June 1993, B.A. Brooklyn College – Cum Laude, B.A./M.D. program, major in English Literature,
Brooklyn, NY
Professional Training

8/02-7/03 Research Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology, Strong Memorial Hospital;

Rochester, NY
12/01-6/02 Transplant Anesthesia Fellow, Department of Anesthesiology, Strong Memorial
Hospital; Rochester, NY
7/98 – 11/01 Anesthesiology Resident, Department of Anesthesiology, Strong Memorial
Hospital; Rochester, NY
7/97 – 6/98 Medicine Intern– Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
Work Experience
09/08 – present Vice Chair for Education, Department of Anesthesiology, Strong Memorial
Hospital, Rochester, NY

7/08 – present Residency Program Director, Department of Anesthesiology, Strong

Memorial Hospital; Rochester, NY

2/05 – present Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Strong Memorial Hospital;

Rochester, NY
8/04 – present Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Strong Memorial Hospital;
Rochester, NY
8/03 – 7/04 Senior Instructor, Department of Anesthesiology, Strong Memorial Hospital;
Rochester, NY
Certification
2002 National Medical Boards Parts I, II, III
2004 American Board of Anesthesiology

University of Rochester Professional Activities

2002 – 2008 Instructor, Moderate Sedation (course and credentialing)

2002 – present Rochester Scholars Program (High School Students) at the Center for
Medical Simulation
2002 – present Faculty Advisor, Medical Student Anesthesiology Interest Group
2003 – 2009 Course Director, ANS601, Medical Student Anesthesiology Elective
2003 – present Course Director, ANS950, Medical Student Advanced Anesthesiology
Elective
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2003 - present Voting member, UR Medical School 3 and 4 Year Instruction
Committee
2003 – present Course Instructor, Acute Crisis Resource Management, DA
2004 – present QI committee, DA
2004 – present Obstetrical Anesthesia group, Thoracic Anesthesia Group
2006 – present Anesthesia Education Research Group
2007 – present co-Director Medical Student Summer Internship in Anesthesiology
2008 - Ex-Officio Member, Clinical Competence Committee, DA
2008 - Chair, Residency Education Committee, DA

Society Memberships

1998 - present Member, American Society of Anesthesiology

2003 - present Member, New York State Society of Anesthesiologists
2004 - 2005 Consultant to the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on
Perioperative Sleep Apnea
2006 - present Member, American Academy of Sleep Medicine
2008 - present Member, Society for Education in Anesthesiology

Honors

4/94 - 6/97 President, 1997 Class of Medicine, SUNY Health Science Center, Brooklyn
6/96 - 6/97 President, Student Center Governing Board
6/96 - 6/97 Chairperson, Liaison Committee on Medical Education Student Council
6/97 Jennifer Timbrook Memorial Award for Student Service
6/98 “Intern of the Year”, Maimonides Medical Center
9/03 Recipient of National Science Foundation trainee conference scholarship
for IX Oxford Conference
Grand Rounds

11/04 – Quality Improvement, Department of Anesthesiology

12/04 – LoMAC Anesthesia, Department of Ear, Nose and Throat Surgery
12/04 – Cocaine and Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology
09/06, 03/09 – Update on using dexmedetomidine in the OR
09/08 - Update on Cocaine and Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology

Invited Lectures

09/06 Update on Practice of Moderate Sedation, Rochester and Canadaigua VA Hospital

12/06 Update on Respiratory Physiology Research, UR Sleep Neurophysiology and Research
Laboratory
02/07 Update on Respiratory Physiology Research, Unity Health Sleep Center, Rochester, NY
03/07 Moderate Sedation for Radiologists, Department of Radiology Resident Lecture, URMC
03/08 The Cocaine Addicted Patient – considerations for the Oral-Maxillary Facial Surgeon,
URMC
09/09 Anesthetic Implications in the Patient with Obstructive Sleep Apnea – Case Western
Reserve Medical Center

Meetings Attended
Postgraduate Assembly, New York City, December 1997
Cleveland Clinic Symposium on Pain Management, Key West, February 1999
Midwest Anesthesia Residents Conference, Milwaukee, March 2001
Society of Obstetrical Anesthesia and Perinatalogy, San Diego April 2001
ASA, New Orleans October 2001
ASA, Orlando October 2002
AUA, Milwaukee May 2003
IX Oxford Conference, Paris September 2003
ASA, San Francisco October 2003
ASA, Las Vegas October 2004
Sleep, Annual Meeting of AASM, June 2006
ASA, Chicago October 2006
ACG, Philadelphia 2007
WCA, Cape Town 2008
SEA, Miami 2008

Medical Student Educational Activities

2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007

Respiratory Physiology Laboratory – Co-Instructor for 3 hour laboratory experiment
designed to have students measure each others ventilatory parameters and values of
gas exchange.
2003, 2004
Problem Based Learning course “Challenges to Homeostasis” – Facilitator for group of
medical students on this 3 day course designed to explore a case involving a patient with
hyperthermia.
2004 – 2007
Respiratory Physiology Problem Set – Co-Instructor for this 3 day course that explores
the pathophysiology behind a case involving a patient with COPD and its consequences.

2007 - 2009
Year 2 Case Seminars – Facilitator for this 2 hour/week small group discussion that is
spread over seven weeks. This seminar is meant “to take basic science materials from
the first two years and place them in a clinical decision-making format.”

2008 - 2009
Clinical Practice Essays in Year 2 Case Seminars – Faculty advisor for this seminar that
is modeled after the Clinical Practice feature in the New England Journal of Medicine, this
seminar gives the students an opportunity to combine the basic science they have
learned, accessing the literature and creating a logical clinical discussion. The student
develops an understanding of the disease and its management through researching and
writing the essay – which is graded by the faculty mentor.

2007 – 2008
Comprehensive Assessments, second year medical students – Oral examiner and video
reviewer for this exercise which involves medical students engaging in history and
physical examination skill assessment with standardized patients.

Resident Lectures
2004 – present Pulmonary function tests (30 minute didactic)
2004 – present Pregnancy-induced hypertension and pre-eclampsia (30 minute didactic)
2004 – 2007 Post-dural puncture headache(30 minute didactic)
2005 – present Sleep Apnea and Anesthesia(30 minute didactic)
2008 – present Anesthetic Implications of Renal and Hepatic Disease (one hour didactic)
2009 – present Inhaled Anesthetics (one hour didactic)
2009 - Epidural Complications – the question of minimum platelet count (Team-
Based Learning, 1.5 hour workshop)
2009 – present Peri-Op Guidelines for OSA patients – Let’s Play MadLibs (Team Based
Learning, 1.5 hour workshop)

Student Mentorship
Scott Van Valkenburg (Undergraduate UR, 2004)
Anahat Dhillon (UR Med, 2002)
Cheri Camacho (UR Med, 2006)
Emmett Whitaker (UR Med, 2006)
Eric Robbins (Undergraduate, SUNY Albany 2004)
Owen Halloran (UR Med 2005)
Ori Rackovsky (YU 2006)
Jennifer Karnes (Honeoye Falls-Lima High School, Rochester, 2005)
William Sauer (UR med 2010)
Honeoye Falls
Emily Redman
Elia Rackovsky (T.I.U.N.Y. 2006 – High School Graduation through 2009)
Research

06/08 – 12/09 Upper Airway Muscle Physical Therapy Funded by the CTSI Grant for
Collaborative Research
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Karan, MD
03/06 – 03/08 Sedation in patients at risk for sleep-induced upper airway collapse.
Funded by Clinical Research Feasibility Funds (CReFF) Award ($20,000
for one year)
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Karan, M.D.

07/04—06/07 Validation of a Test to Predict Sedative-Induced Upper Airway

Obstruction. Funded by Foundation for Anesthesia Education and
Research – Research Starter Grant ($80,000 over two years)
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Karan, M.D.

02/04 – 06/07 Teaching Medical Students Geriatric Anesthesia. Funded by a Reynold’s

Foundation Challenge Grant. ($8,000)
Co-principal Investigators: Suzanne Karan, M.D., Carol Diachun, M.D.

01/04 – 03/07 Role of the peripheral chemoreceptors in the counter-regulatory

response to hypoglycemia and hypoxia. Funded by ADA. ($300,000)
Principal Investigator: Denham Ward, M.D., Ph.D.

01/01—11/04 The effects of pain and audiovisual stimulation on opioid induced

depression of the hypoxic ventilatory response. Funded by Foundation
for Anesthesia Education and Research – Fellowship Grant ($50,000)
Principal Investigator: Suzanne Karan, M.D.

The effects and interaction of sedative doses of intravenous midazolam

or propofol, and hypoxia, on upper airway obstruction. Funded by IARS
clinical scholar award ($75,000)
Principal Investigator: Peter Bailey, M.D.

01/01 – 10/02 Control of ventilation during hypoxia: dopamine to suppress the carotid
bodies and midazolam to potentiate central depression
Principal Investigator: Denham Ward, M.D., and Ph.D.

Assessment of laryngoscopy skill acquisition with a video laryngoscope

Principal Investigator: Ashwani Chhibber, M.D.

Evaluation and comparison of two pediatric fiberoptic bronchoscopes

Principal Investigator: Ashwani Chhibber, M.D.

7/89 – 1/90 Research Assistant for Arnold Strashun, M.D., Nuclear Medicine
State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn
Studied regional blood flow in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients using a
SPECT scan.
Medical Community Activities

03/04 American Medical Women’s Association panel on “Women in Medicine”

11/04 Consultant, American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on
Perioperative Sleep Apnea.
07/09 – 12/09 Reviewer, PGA 2009

Other Community Activities

Executive Board Member Congregation Beth Sholom, Rochester, NY

Member Committee on Recruitment and Retention, Hillel Community Day
School
Panel Member Committee on Hours of Operation for JCC

Guest Editorships

Management of Peri-operative Challenges to Respiration. Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative

Medicine and Pain. June 2007, volume 26, issue 2. Series Editor: Philip D. Lumb, Elsevier Inc,
New York.

Publications

Karan SB, Perlis M, Ward D. Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine: An Opportunity to be Mutually
Informative? Seminars in Anesthesia, Perioperative Medicine and Pain (2007) 26; 42-48

Ward DS, Voter WA, Karan S. The Effects of Hypo- and Hyperglycaemia on the Hypoxic
Ventilatory Response in Humans. The Journal of Physiology 582 (2), 859–869.

Norton JR, Ward DS, Karan S, Voter WA, Palmer L, Varlese A, Rachovsky O, Bailey P.
Differences between Midazolam and Propofol Sedation on Upper Airway Collapsibility Using
Dynamic Negative Airway Pressure. Anesthesiology. 104(6):1155-64, 2006 Jun

Kaplan MB, Hagberg CA, Ward DS, Brambrink A, Chhibber A, Heidegger T, Lozada L,
Ovassapian A, Parsons D, RamsayJ, Wilhelm W, Zwissler B, Gerig HJ, Hofstetter C, Karan S,
Kreisler N, Pousman RM, Thierbach A, Wrobel M and Berci G. Comparison of direct and video-
assisted views of the larynx during routine intubation. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia 18(5):357-6,
2006

Ward DS, Karan S. Ventilatory effects of cardiovascular drugs. In:Pharmacology and

Pathophysiology of the Control of Breathing, eds Ward DS, Dahan A, Teppema L. (Lung Biology in
Health and Disease, Claude Lenfant, executive editor.) Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, pp 793-813,
2005

Karan S, Voter W, Palmer L, Ward DS. Effects of pain and audiovisual stimulation on the opioid-
induced depression of the hypoxic ventilatory response. Anesthesiology. 103(2):384-90, 2005
Aug

Karan SB. Norton JR. Voter W. Palmer L. Ward DS. Effects of pain and audiovisual stimulation
on the hypoxic ventilatory response. Advances in Experimental Medicine & Biology. 551:275-9,
2004.

Karan SB, Norton JR, Voter W, Palmer L, Ward DS. Effects of Pain and Audiovisual Stimulation
on the Hypoxic Ventilatory Response, in: Post-Genomic Perspectives in Modeling and Control of
Breathing (Volume 551, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology), Champagnat J,
Denavit-Saubie M, Fortin G, Foutz AS, Thoby-Brisson M, Eds., Kluwer Academic/Plenum
Publishers, New York, 2004.
Karan S, Ward DS. Carcinoid Syndrome, in: Decision Making in Anesthesiology: An Algorithmic
Approach. (in press)

Karan S, Bailey PL: Update and review of moderate and deep sedation. GastroIntestinal
Endoscopy Clinics of North America 14(2004) 289-312.

Karan SB, Bailey PL: Practical Aspects of Sedation and Analgesia: The Anesthesiologist’s
Perspective. Techniques in Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 6(2) 46-54, April 2004.

Bailey P, Norton JR, Karan SB. The FDA droperidol warning: Is it justified? Anesthesiology
97(1): 288-9, 2002.

Ward DS, Karan S. Effects of pain and arousal on the control of breathing. J Anesth 16:216-221, 2002.

Abstracts

Karan S, Norton R, Chhibber A, Kaplan M, Ward D. Improved laryngoscopic view with the video-
Macintosh laryngoscope. ASA Annual Meeting Abstracts. Equipment, Monitoring, and
Engineering Technology. 97(3A): A564, 2002

Karan SB, Ward DS, Bailey P, Norton R, Voter W. Effects of pain and audiovisual stimulation on
the hypoxic ventilatory response. ASA Annual Meeting Abstracts. Respiration. 99(3A):A1532,
2003

Norton R, Karan S, Ward D, Palmer L, Bailey P. The effects of gender and hypoxia on upper
airway obstruction under propofol or midazolam sedation using dynamic negative airway
pressure. ASA Annual Meeting Abstracts. Respiration. 99(3A):A1536, 2003

Karan SB, Ward DS, Voter W, Palmer LS. The effect of pain and audiovisual stimulation on the
opioid-induced depression of the acute hypoxic ventilatory response. ASA Annual Meeting
Abstracts. Clinical Neurosciences. 101(3A):A359, 2004

Semien GA, Palmer L, Voter W, Karan S, Ward D. The effect of a 4-hour dopamine infusion on
the hypoxic ventilatory response. ASA Annual Meeting Abstracts. Respiration. 101(3A):A1545,
2004

Karan SB, Perlis ML, Voter W, Palmer LS, Ward DS. Validation of a method to produce sedation
induced upper airway obstruction. ASA Annual Meeting Abstracts. Respiration. A1556, 2006

Karan SB, Voter W, Shah A, Sauer W, Ward DS. Predicting Sedation Induced Respiratory
Compromise During Colonoscopy. The American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific
Meeting Abstract. Endoscopy 2007.

Karan SB, Perlis ML, Voter W, Sauer W, Howard E, Cutter A, Donahue S, Ward DS. Sedation
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Related Respiratory Events In Patients With OSA. SLEEP 2008 22 Annual Meeting of the
Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC, June 7-12, Baltimore, Maryland.