Department Honors, Awards, Appointments, and Publications - March 2026

Honors

The Cardiothoracic Anesthesia team was instrumental in two recent UCSF Lung Transplant Program milestones:

• Successfully performed three lung transplants simultaneously
• Completed a total of four lung transplants within just 48 hours.

Meetings and Presentations

Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) – American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Pediatric Anesthesiology 2026

Odinakachukwu Ehie, MD, MAEd, FASA. Speaker. No One Climbs Alone: Creating Inclusive Cultures in Pediatric Anesthesia.

Anshuman Sharma MD FFARCSI. Moderator, Poster Session.

Publications

Department members Daisuke Maruyama, Xiaoli Tian, Thien N.M. Doan, Wen-I Liao, Tomohiro Chaki, Hiroki Taenaka, Mazharul Maishan, Michael A. Matthay, and Arun Prakash have published a high-impact research article - Gut microbiome-derived propionate reprograms alveolar macrophages metabolically and regulates lung injury responses in mice – that has been featured in Science. The article has a 5-year impact factor of 13.4.

Brender TD, Stumpf N, Vossler K, Kim S, Mills H, Lee A, Yang HY, Heintz T, Espejo E, Boscardin J, Pantilat S, Chapman AC, Widera E, Smith AK, Cobert J. How ICU clinicians document 'Futility': A 10-year analysis of critical care notes using natural language processing notes. J Crit Care. 2026;94:155526.

Chanderraj R, Bartek B, Stringer KA, Tiba MH, Sjoding MW, He Y, Nuppnau M, Bongers KS, Adame MD, Lou SS, Kerschberger VE, Churpek MM, Calfee CS, Tripathi S, Foster DM, Kellum JA, Dickson RP, Sinha P. Pathogen characteristics are key determinants of distinct host response phenotypes of sepsis. J Clin Invest. 2026;136(6).

Cobert J, Lim G. Maternal Cardiac Arrest: Big Data, Rare Events, and Moving from Incidence to Insight. Anesthesiology. 2026;144(4):752-755.

Corpman D, Auyong D, Walters A, Thind B, Gray A, Bhalla P, Nathwani R, Ng I. Will AI keep you out of trouble? An expert panel review of LLMs for hazardous regional anesthesia consults. J Clin Anesth. 2026;111:112164.

Hemmerle DD, Wagner L, Hong OS, Duong-Fernandez X, Huie JR, Mendoza E, Torres-Espin A, Keller AV, Hinson HE, Pan JZ, Singh V, Kyritsis N, DiGiorgio AM, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Weinstein PR, Kuo Y, Manley GT, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Dhall SS, Pascual LU, Ferguson AR. Quality of Life and Function from Initial Injury to Follow-up in the First Year after Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. J Neurotrauma. 2026 Mar 28.

Hsiang WR, Zhang L, Hoang P, Guan BK, Van Kuiken M, Guan Z. Impact of Mismatched Discharge Opioid Prescriptions on Opioid Refills after Inpatient Urologic Surgery. Urol Pract. 2026 Mar 17.

Kim JG, Hauer KE, Boscardin CK, Su JI, Holmboe ES, Konopasek L, Chen IL, Gonzalez CM, Ogedegbe GG, Burk-Rafel J, Nguyen M, Andrews JS, Henderson DD, Richardson J, McDade W, Boatright D. Sex, Race, and Ethnicity Differences Among Residents With Exceptionally High Graduate Medical Education Ratings. JAMA Netw Open. 2026;9(3):e264017.

Lee W, Liou S, George RB, Fernandez A. Clinician Perspectives on Obstetric Anesthesia Informed Consent for Patients With Limited English Proficiency: A Qualitative Study. Womens Health Issues. 2026 Mar 13.

Michels EHA, Dequin P, Butler JM, Guillon A, Evrard B, Paling FP, Reijnders TDY, Schuurman AR, van Engelen TSR, Brands X, Haak BW, Bos LDJ, Leroux C, Giamarellos-Bourboulis EJ, Stoker J, Prins JM, Faber DR, Douma RA, Sweeney TE, Malhotra-Kumar S, Kluytmans JAJW, Scicluna BP, Cremer OL, Matthay M, Calfee C, Wiersinga WJ, Peters-Sengers H, van der Poll T. Quantifying immune dysregulation in pneumonia and sepsis with a parsimonious machine-learning model: a multicohort analysis across care settings and reanalysis of a hydrocortisone randomised controlled trial. Lancet Respir Med. 2026 Mar 16.

Neyra JA, Legrand M, Tidswell MA, Al-Khafaji A, Galphin C, Rains R, Davison D, Tolwani A, Chen J, Bender WS, Busse LW, Meena NK, DellaVolpe J, Williams GW, Kashani KB, Gunnerson KJ, McMahon BA, Eaton J, Khan S, Kohli-Seth R, Jagpal S, Klein D, Kamaluddin E, Foster DM, Walker PM, Tomlinson G, Kellum JA. Polymyxin B haemoadsorption in endotoxic septic shock (Tigris): a multicentre, open-label, Bayesian, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet Respir Med. 2026 Mar 23.

Reddy K, Sinha P, Antcliffe DB, McDowell C, Bradley PA, Black L, Murphy L, Barbaras J, Conlon J, Camporota L, Ostermann M, Hopkins P, Szakmany T, Cherian S, Welters I, Brealey D, Parekh D, Rostron AJ, Bos LDJ, Nichol A, Shankar-Hari M, Gordon AC, Delucchi K, O'Kane CM, Matthay MA, Calfee CS, McAuley DF. Bedside identification of subphenotypes in acute respiratory failure (PHIND): a multicentre, observational cohort study. Lancet Respir Med. 2026 Mar 23.

Starkweather CK, Willbrand EH, Sellers KK, Hullet P, Krystal AD, Shirvalkar P, Weiner KS, Willie JT, Brunner P, Chang EF, Knight RT. Rapid homotopic communication between human orbitofrontal subregions. Curr Biol. 2026 Feb 26.

Thomsen KK, Legrand M. Managing postinduction hypotension: the jury is still out. Br J Anaesth. 2026 Feb 27.

Thrash GW, Wang E, Brockington D, Rives C, Sun Y, Roberts AC, Das S, Pilitsis JG, Shirvalkar P, do Campo RV, Walker HC, Earley CJ, Holland MT. Neuromodulation for Restless Legs Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Mechanistic Considerations for Spinal Cord Stimulation. Sleep Breath. 2026;30(1).

Ye F, Zhang L, Mummaneni PV, Shanmugam A, Bishara A, Berven SH, Abrecht CR, Guan Z. Independent Factors Associated With Opioid Refills at 31 to 60 and 61 to 90 Days After Discharge From Spine Surgery: A Novel Predictor of High-Risk Patients. Anesth Analg. 2026 Feb 25.

Zhang L, Chan A, Guan BK, Zhou X, Manahan G, Guan Z. Perioperative factors associated with opioid refills after cardiac surgery: a retrospective cohort study. Br J Anaesth. 2026 Mar 27.

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