Karen L Orman, MD
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Highlights
Age Groups Seen
- Pediatrics
Languages
- English
Gender
FemaleAbout Karen L Orman
Academic Title
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Biography/ Philosophy of Care
Local educational endeavors include pediatric critical care nursing orientation and high-tech courses, resident procedural skills teaching, and AHA pediatric advanced life support. She is also currently a site director for the University of Louisville Emergency Medical Services fellowship program.
Along with members of the Just For Kids Transport Team, Dr. Orman travels around the region with a portable simulation mannequin to educate physicians, nurses, EMS personnel and healthcare students in acute care pediatric scenarios.
She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, Sections of Critical Care and Transport Medicine, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Orman and her husband, Dr. Shands Orman, an anesthesiologist, have 2 wonderful teenage daughters, 2 dogs, a cat and multiple fish. They enjoy traveling, with a goal of visiting all 50 states as a family; geocaching; watching Marvel movies; and cooking new recipes.
Recognition
Publications:
Orman, KL, Shenep, JL, English, BK. Pneumococci stimulate the production of the inducible nitric oxide synthase and nitric oxide by murine macrophages. J Infect Dis. 1998 Dec;178:1649-57.
Quasney, MW, Orman, KL, Thompson, J, Ring, JC, Salim, MA, Schoumacher, RA, Watson, DC, Novick, W, Deitcher, SR, Joyner, R. Plastic bronchitis occurring late after the Fontan procedure: treatment with aerosolized urokinase. Crit Care Med. 2000 Jun;28(6):2107-11.
Orman, KL, English, BK. Effects of antibiotic class on the macrophage inflammatory response to Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Infect Dis. 2000 Nov;182: 1561-5.
Buckingham, SC, McCullers, JA, Lujan-Zilberman, J, Knapp, KM, Orman, KL, English BK. Pneumococcal meningitis in children: relationship of antibiotic resistance to clinical characteristics and outcomes. Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2001 Sep;20:837-843.
Monier, RM, Orman, KL, Meals, EA, English, BK. Differential effects of p38- and extracellular signal-regulated kinase mitogen-activated protein kinase inhibitors on inducible nitric oxide synthase and tumor necrosis factor production in murine macrophages stimulated with Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Infect Dis. 2002 Apr;185(7): 921-6.
Das, BB, Recto, M, Johnsrude, C, Klein, L, Orman, K, Shoemaker, L, Mitchell, M, Austin, EH. Cardiac transplantation for pediatric giant cell myocarditis. J Heart Lung Transplant, 2006 Apr;25(4): 474-8.
Buckingham, SC, McCullers, JA, Luján-Zilbermann, J, Knapp, KM, Orman, KL, English, BK. Early vancomycin therapy and adverse outcomes in children with pneumococcal meningitis. Pediatrics, 2006 May;117(5); 1688-94.
Clinical Interests/Research
Clinical and Research Interests: Pediatric Transport Medicine, Outreach Simulation Program
Expertise
Education
- Fellowship: University of Tennessee Health Science Ctr-Memphis, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 1999
- Residency: University of Tennessee Health Science Ctr-Memphis, Pediatrics, 1996
- Medical Education: University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine, Doctor of Medicine, 1993
Board Certifications
- Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: American Board of Pediatrics, 2000
- Pediatrics: American Board of Pediatrics, 1996
Insurance
- Aetna
- Aetna Better Health
- Aetna Medicare Advantage
- Ambetter from MHS
- Ambetter from WellCare of Kentucky
- Anthem
- Anthem Indiana Medicaid
- Anthem MediBlue HMO/PPO
- Anthem Pathway
- Anthem Pathway Transition
- CareSource Indiana Medicaid
- CareSource Marketplace Kentucky and Indiana
- Cigna
- CorVel
- Coventry
- Encore
- Essence
- First Health Group Corp. (First Health)
- HealthSmart
- Hosparus
- Humana Medicaid
- Humana Medicare
- Indiana Health Network
- Indiana Medicaid
- Indiana Medicare
- Kentucky Medicaid
- Kentucky Medicare
- MDwise
- MHS
- Molina Healthcare
- MultiPlan
- Passport Health Plan Kentucky MCO
- Passport Marketplace
- Provider Net/OMCA
- Sagamore
- Signature Advantage
- SIHO
- TRICARE Humana Military
- United Healthcare
- United Healthcare Community Plan Indiana and Kentucky
- United Healthcare Medicare Advantage
- UofL Health – Frazier Rehabilitation Institute
- Veterans Affairs (VA)
- WellCare
- WellCare Medicare
- WellCare of Kentucky Medicaid (Kentucky MCO)
- Wellpath
- Workers’ Compensation
