Roop K. Kaw MD

Roop K Kaw MD, is an Associate Professor with the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and holds joint appointments with the Departments of Hospital Medicine and Outcomes Research (Anesthesiology Institute). He directs the Research Committee within the Department of Hospital Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. He is a founding member of the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine and a member of Outcomes Research consortium, anesthesia’s largest international academic research organization.
Dr. Kaw’s current clinical and research interests focus on novel predictors of cardiopulmonary risk in patients undergoing Cardiac and Non-cardiac surgery. He has been funded by the NINDS (NIH) for studying the incremental risk of Sleep Apnea in cardiac surgical patients. He has chaired the scientific abstract committees on the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Perioperative Medicine Summit.