Krystal Karunungan, MD
RESIDENT
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• M.D. David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 05/2023
• B.S. Saint Mary's College of California 05/2017

Publications (15)

Top publication keywords:
Postoperative ComplicationsHemispherectomyGallstonesAmyloid Precursor Protein SecretasesLiver TransplantationCholecystectomyHemimegalencephalyHospitals, RuralClinical ClerkshipFrailtyPersonnel SelectionElective Surgical ProceduresPneumonectomyEducational MeasurementBone Morphogenetic Protein 7

• Non-Operative Management of Uncomplicated Appendicitis in Children: Can Patients Be Discharged From the Emergency Department?
  Journal of pediatric surgery 2024 Froehlich M, Karunungan K, Jen HC, Wagner JP, Shekherdimian S, Sullins VF, DeUgarte DA, Lee S
• Disparities in outpatient rural cholecystectomy outcomes.
  American journal of surgery 2024 Howell EC, Sakai-Bizmark R, Karunungan K, Pak Y, Ugarte R, Richardson S, DeUgarte DA, Lee SL
• Creating an Unprotected Class: Addressing Legal Risks in the Era of Biologically-Defined Alzheimer's Disease.
  Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2024 Vaishnav N, Gonzalez R, Karunungan K, Tyler A, Zheng W, Arias JJ
• Hemimegalencephaly: A Systematic Comparison of Functional and Anatomic Hemispherectomy for Drug-Resistant Epilepsy.
  Neurosurgery 2023 Goel K, Ghadiyaram A, Krishnakumar A, Morden FTC, Higashihara TJ, Harris WB, Shlobin NA, Wang A, Karunungan K, Dubey A, Phillips HW, Weil AG, Fallah A
• Reimagining a pass/fail clinical core clerkship: a US residency program director survey and meta-analysis.
  BMC medical education 2023 Wang A, Karunungan KL, Story JD, Shlobin NA, Woo J, Ha EL, Hauer KE, Braddock CH

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• Pediatric risk to orthotopic heart transplant (PRO) score: Insights from United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) waitlist mortality findings.
  Pediatric transplantation 2023 Raymundo S, Wilhalme H, Chaudhary A, Karunungan K, Alejos J, Srivastava N
• Gamma secretase activity modulates BMP-7-induced dendritic growth in primary rat sympathetic neurons.
  Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical 2023 Karunungan K, Garza RH, Grodzki AC, Holt M, Lein PJ, Chandrasekaran V
• Contribution of a positive psychology-based conceptual framework in reducing physician burnout and improving well-being: a systematic review.
  BMC medical education 2021 Bazargan-Hejazi S, Shirazi A, Wang A, Shlobin NA, Karunungan K, Shulman J, Marzio R, Ebrahim G, Shay W, Slavin S
• Residency Program Director Perceptions of Resident Performance Between Graduates of Medical Schools With Pass/Fail Versus Tiered Grading System for Clinical Clerkships: A Meta-Analysis.
  Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2021 Wang A, Karunungan KL, Shlobin NA, Story JD, Ha EL, Hauer KE, Braddock CH
• Residency Program Director Perspectives on Changes to US Medical Licensing Examination.
  JAMA network open 2021 Wang A, Karunungan KL, Story JD, Ha EL, Braddock CH
• Diversity and inclusion in neurosurgery.
  The Lancet. Neurology 2021 Wang A, Karunungan KL, Shlobin NA, DiCesare JAT, Holly LT
• The obesity paradox: Underweight patients are at the greatest risk of mortality after cholecystectomy.
  Surgery 2021 Rudasill SE, Dillon D, Karunungan K, Mardock AL, Hadaya J, Sanaiha Y, Tran Z, Benharash P
• Impact of Payer Status on Delisting Among Liver Transplant Candidates in the United States.
  Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society 2020 Karunungan KL, Sanaiha Y, Hernandez RA, Wilhalme H, Rudasill S, Hadaya J, DiNorcia J, Benharash P
• Frailty Is Independently Associated With Worse Outcomes After Elective Anatomic Lung Resection.
  The Annals of thoracic surgery 2020 Karunungan KL, Hadaya J, Tran Z, Sanaiha Y, Mandelbaum A, Revels SL, Benharash P
• National trends in postoperative infections across surgical specialties.
  Surgery 2020 Madrigal J, Sanaiha Y, Karunungan K, Sareh S, Benharash P