Kristen Carey Rock, MD
Anesthesiology
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Anesthesiology and Critical Care HUP
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Penn Medicine Provider

About me

  • Program Director, Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care

Education and training

  • Medical School: Harvard Medical School
  • Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
  • Fellowship: University of Pennsylvania Health System

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Rock is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Burton K, Gold A, Abt P, Machado N, Rock K, Bezinover D Making Living-donor Liver Transplantation a Viable Option for Patients With Portopulmonary Hypertension , Transplant Direct, 10(10): 2024,e1710


Rock, Kirsten Carey Five More Minutes , Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics , 14(2): 2024,4-6


Feduska E, Rock KC Ventricular Fibrillation / Ventricular Tachycardia After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting , Critical Care: A Problem Based Learning Approach : 2022,227-237


Alessandra Cardi, MD, Anand Bhattacharya MHS MD; Kristen Carey Rock MD ICU video review as a novel tool to support the Educational, Performance Improvement, and Clinical Care Goals of a Surgical Intensive Care Unit , SOCCA 2022 Annual Meeting: 2022


Gold AK, Huffenberger A, Lane-Fall M, Pascual Lopez JL, Rock KC Leveraging Telemedicine for Quality Improvement Video Review of Critical ICU Events: A Novel Multidisciplinary Form of Education. , Crit Care Explor, 3(4): 2021


Rock KC, Newman M, Fleisher LA Implications of Perioperative Morbidity on Long-Term Outcomes , Perioperative Medicine: Managing for Outcome, 2nd Edition: 2021,2-8


Spelde A, Rock K, Gordon E How Do I Diagnose and Manage Myocardial Ischemia in the ICU? , Evidence-Based Practice of Critical Care, 3rd Edition : 2020,371-378.e1


Rock KC, Hanson CW Post-operative Care of the Surgical ICU Patient , Anesthesiology, 3e: 2018,1-29


Rock K Fluid Resuscitation Part 1: Fluid Type and Choice , Anesthesia Toolbox: 2017


Rock K Fluid Resuscitation Part 2: Strategies and Endpoints of Resuscitation , Anesthesia Toolbox: 2017