Katherine W Arendt MD

Summary

• Dr. Katherine (Katie) Arendt is Professor of Anesthesiology, Division Chair and the Associate Practice Chair for the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. She completed residency in anesthesiology at Mayo Clinic; Obstetric Anesthesiology fellowship at the Brigham and Women's Hospital; and a Regional Anesthesiology fellowship at Mayo Clinic. Dr. Arendt is an American Board of Anesthesiology Associate Oral Board Examiner. She initiated and is the Program Director of the ACGME-accredited Obstetric Anesthesiology Fellowship Program at Mayo Clinic. Her research interests include the obstetric anesthesia management of labor and delivery for parturients with complex cardiac disease. On this topic, she authors UpToDate® articles, she served on the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Pregnancy and Heart Disease Task Force which published the ACOG practice bulletin on Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy in May 2019, and she is currently serving on the Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (AIM) Cardiac Conditions in Obstetrical Care Patient Safety Bundle Development Work Group. She is also currently serving on the writing group for the upcoming American Heart Association guidelines for obstetric anesthesia care for patients with cardiac disease. She has published has over 60 peer reviewed publications and is co-author of the chapter Anesthesia for Obstetrics in the Miller’s Anesthesia.