Tara Karamlou MD, MSc

Dr. Tara Karamlou, MD, MSc, is a pediatric and congenital heart surgeon in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute at Cleveland Clinic Children’s. She sees patients at the Cleveland Clinic's main campus.

Dr. Karamlou earned her medical degree with high honors from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas. During her surgical residency at Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Ore., Dr. Karamlou was awarded the Nina Braunwald research fellowship from the Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education and also was appointed as the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society (CHSS) John Kirklin/David Ashburn Fellow. This two-year nonclinical appointment focuses on outcomes research within the CHSS Data Center located at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. As part of this fellowship, she earned a master’s degree in biostatistics from the University of Toronto, Institute of Medical Science.

After completing her fellowship in Toronto and her surgical residency in Oregon, Dr. Karamlou continued her training with two residencies in congenital heart surgery, first at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., and then returning to Oregon Health and Science University. She pursued additional subspecialty training as an ACGME-accredited fellow in congenital heart surgery in the Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Seattle Children's Hospital. She was named to the Cleveland Clinic Children’s medical staff in 2019.