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Philip Karuman, MD, General Surgery, New York, NY

PhilipKarumanMDPhD, FRCS, FACS

General Surgery New York, NY

Hepatobiliary Surgery, Surgical Oncology (Other than Breast), Trauma Surgery & Surgical Critical Care, Minimally Invasive Surgery

General Surgeon

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Summary

  • I am a board certified fellowship trained general surgeon who devotes his time and resources to humanitarian and war surgery and deeply loves the Art of Surgery

Education & Training

  • Ascension St Vincent Hospital Indianapolis
    Ascension St Vincent Hospital IndianapolisResidency, Surgery, 2012 - 2015
  • UPMC Medical Education
    UPMC Medical EducationFellowship, Abdominal Transplant Surgery, 2004 - 2006
  • Harvard Medical School
    Harvard Medical SchoolPost-Doctoral Fellowship, Cell Biology, 2000 - 2001
  • Harvard University
    Harvard UniversityPhD, Cell and Developmental Biology, 1994 - 2000
  • National University of Singapore
    National University of SingaporeMMed, General Surgery, 1989 - 1992
  • National University of Singapore FOM
    National University of Singapore FOMClass of 1987

Certifications & Licensure

  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 2022 - 2026
  • WA State Medical License
    WA State Medical License 2018 - 2024
  • ID State Medical License
    ID State Medical License 2020 - 2021
  • ND State Medical License
    ND State Medical License 2015 - 2021
  • IN State Medical License
    IN State Medical License 2016 - 2019
  • PA State Medical License
    PA State Medical License 2003 - 2016
  • American Board of Surgery Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Clinician Scientist Investigator Award Ministry of Health (MOH) Singapore, 2006
  • Overseas Graduate Scholarship Harvard Medical School, 1994
  • Exchange Scholarship Royal Free Hospital (London), 1986
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • Life and Death in Paradise  
    Or Gozani, Michael Boyce, Lina Yoo, Philip Karuman and Junying Yuan, Nature Cell Biology, 1/1/2002
  • Intestinal and Multivisceral Transplantation for Portomesenteric Venous Thrombosis: Technical Considerations and Therapeutic Efficacy  
    Harris, C ; Bond, G ; Karuman, P ; Ezzelarab, M ; Costa, G ; Soltys, K 1; Sindhi, R ; Mazariegos, G ; Abu-Elmagd, K, Transplantation, 1/1/2004
  • Endoscopy imaging of 5-ALA-induced PPIX fluorescence for detecting early neoplasms in the oral cavity  
    Wei Zheng; Malini Olivo; Ranjiv Sivanandan; Philip Karuman; Tuan-Kay Lim; K. Chee Soo, Biophotonics Instrumentation and Analysis, (25 October 2001), 10/25/2001
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Other

  • Doctoral Dissertation: "Cloning of a Novel Phosphoinositide Binding Protein PIPHD34 and Functional Analysis of LKB1, the Tumor Suppressor Found in Peutz-Jegher's Syndr... 
    Harvard Medical School
    1/1/2000

Press Mentions

  • At IUP Ceremony, 102 Become New American Citizens
    At IUP Ceremony, 102 Become New American CitizensOctober 15th, 2011

Grant Support

  • BILE ACID PATHWAYS IN THE OUTCOMES OF BARIATRIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES: Genotyping of the FXR and TGR5 genetic lociSt. Vincent Foundation Grant2015–2018

Professional Memberships

  • American Society of Transplant Surgeons
    Fellow
  • Medicine sans Frontieres
    Member
  • Fellow
  • Academy of Medicine of Singapore
    Fellow
  • Royal College of Surgeons of England
    Fellow
  • Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
    Fellow

Other Languages

  • Chinese (Mandarin), Malay