Karla Loss

Experience

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  Universidade de São Paulo

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2014

  Attending Physician, Department of Pediatric Cardiology

  - Management of patients at a 31 bed ICU with a broad spectrum of congenital and acquired heart disease in the post-operative care unit including patients that had palliative or primary repair, and before and after pediatric Heart Transplant.

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  SPDM - Associação Paulista para o Desenvolvimento da Medicina - Hospital Municipal de Barueri Dr. Fr

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2014

  Attending Physician, Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology

  - Diagnose and treatment of pediatric patients with suspected or already diagnosed congenital or acquired heart disease at outpatient clinic- For the cases that required surgical treatment, the patients were referred to the public high-complexity units in the Sao Paulo area.

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  Hospital Infatil e Maternidade Dr Alzir Bernardino Alves

  Jun 2014 - Jan 2020

  Attending Physician, Department of Pediatric Cardiology

  - Diagnose and treatment of pediatric patients with suspected or already diagnosed congenital or acquired heart disease.- Managed clinically or indicated surgical or interventional procedures in a broad variety of patients at the outpatient clinic.- Managed all types of cardiovascular disease before or after surgical or interventional procedure, except heart transplant , at the intensive care unit

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  Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

  Mar 2018 - now

  - Responsible to lead and guide a group of 20-25 students for their Group Project during the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research course- Group Project objective is to develop a research question using the PICOT format to address a relevant challenge in the healthcare field. - Led different projects including 1) Everolimus use in patients with symptomatic cardiac rhabdomyoma secondary to tuberous sclerosis complex; 2) new device to reduce the air pollutant particles and reduce the COPD exacerbations measured by the CAT score; 3) curcumin use for joint pain related to breast cancer treatment. Exibir menos

  • Senior Teaching Assistant

    Mar 2023 - now

  • Teaching Assistant II

    Mar 2020 - Jan 2023

  • Teaching Assistant I

    Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
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  Hospital Geral e Infantil Alzir Bernardino Alves - HIMABA

  Nov 2018 - Jan 2020

  Medical Director of the Department of Pediatric Cardiology

  - Led the clinical (8 MDs and 1 nurse) and surgical teams (4 MDs, one perfusionist and one surgical assistant)- Planned the weekly surgical and interventional procedures- Created and implemented process to organized the waiting list for surgical andinterventional procedures including 119 patients- Participated in leadership meetings with the hospital director to discuss future goals for the department- Supervised the outpatient clinic metrics including the patients’ consultations,echocardiogram laboratory and 24h-holter schedules offering around 200 appointmentsfor consults, 240 appointments for echocardiogram and 40 appointments for 24h-holtersmonthly.- Increased the number of surgeries per year by 19.2% (from 109 to 130 in 2020) andkept the mortality rate at ~7% (Brazil average is ~11%) Exibir menos

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  Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA)

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2024

  - Develop research projects in pediatric heart failure, longitudinal ventricular remodeling after Tetralogy of Fallot repair and right ventricle failure.- Work in collaboration with Pediatric Heart Failure, Ventricular Assistance Device and Heart Transplant clinical and research teams to plan and execute the research projects. - Develop the literature review, planned the adequate study design, analysis plan and interpretation of results.- Use of statistical software as STATA to develop the data analysis.- Developed four study protocols and received approval from IRB-CHLA.- Presented the research project to the Heart Ambassadors at CHLA, the sponsors for cardiovascular research at CHLA.- Abstract presentation at Cardiology 2022: 25th Annual Update on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease in Huntington Beach and at American Heart Association 2022 in Chicago.- Abstract presentation at American College Cardiology 2023 on BNP level longitudinal decline in pediatric patients presented acute decompensated heart failure. Exibir menos

  • Associate Researcher

    Jan 2023 - Jan 2024

  • Research Fellow

    Jan 2021 - Jan 2022
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  UCL

  Jan 2022 - now

  • Master of Public Health Candidate

    Jan 2022 - now

  • Students Representative 2022-2024

    Jan 2022 - now
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  Hospital Infantil e Maternidade Alzir Bernardino Alves – HIMABA

  Jan 2023 - now

  Attending Physician, Department of Pediatric Cardiology

  - Diagnose and treatment of pediatric patients with suspected or already diagnosed congenital or acquired heart disease.- Managed clinically or indicated surgical or interventional procedures in a broad variety of patients at the outpatient clinic.- Managed all types of cardiovascular disease before or after surgical or interventional procedure, except heart transplant , at the intensive care unit

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  Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (Oficial)

  Nov 2023 - now

  Professor of Pediatrics

  - Teaching med-students on clinical history, examination, and diagnostic hypothesis development at outpatient clinics and pediatric ward.- Developing practical skills and critical thinking on best-practices in pediatric consultation and disease management.