Ensuring Engagement, Fairness, and Belonging - April 2025

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April 30, 2025

By Morgen Ahearn

Awards

Michael Lipnick, MD, Fiffi Negussie, MPH, Tyler Law, MD, Phil Bickler, MD, PhD, Doruk Ozgediz, MD, MSc, Patti Orozco, MPA, Odi Ehie, MD, MAEd, FASA. Patrick J McGovern Foundation Award for CHESA’s work to build a diverse data repository of pulse ox data and launch a Hypoxia Lab in Uganda.

Events

Administrative Professionals Day Celebration.

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Honors

Tyler Law, MD. First Place, IARS Editor’s Choice Award. The Global Anesthesia Workforce Survey: Updates and Trends in the Anesthesia Workforce.

Leah Pimentel, MBA. 2024-2025 GME Excellence and Innovation Award in the category of Leadership in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

In the News

Catherine Chen, MD, MPH, Erica Langnas, MD, and colleagues, looked at social contagion theory in family members of pediatric patients prescribed opioids after surgery. Featured in the March 2025 Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies Newsletter - Policy Perspectives: Fentanyl and Opioids.

Adrian Gelb, MBBS. Interviewed by Oana Maties, MD, for CSA. An interview with Dr. Adrian Gelb, Winner of the Nicholas M. Green Award for Outstanding Humanitarian Contributions.

Michael Lipnick, MD. Featured in NBC News. The problem with pulse oximeters your doctor probably doesn’t know.

Open Oximetry Project featured in the Institute for Global Health Sciences Newsletter, April 2025. Pulse Oximetry Research Expands to Uganda to Test Devices in Globally Diverse Populations.

Meetings and Presentations

California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA)

Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD. Delirium in Older Adults: From evidence to action.

Ludwig Lin, MD and Elizabeth Duggan, MD, MA. Leveraging Emotional Intelligence, Workplace Culture, and the Power of Conflict Resolution to Craft a Sustainable Career in Perioperative Care.

Mentorship and Pathway Programs

Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD. Advisor for Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) at UCSF. LMSA won the UCSF Outstanding Student Organization of the Year.

Charlene Blake, MD, PhD, et al. Students Capturing the OR Experience (SCORE), 2025.

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Publications

Bhat AN, Singh A, Kurien P, Su G, Chang JL, Durr ML. Barriers to Care for Sleep Surgery at a Safety Net Hospital: Qualitative Patient Experiences. Laryngoscope.2025 Mar 27.

Brode EC, Bernal JM, Cornes SB, Santhosh L, Rivera JA, Kulkarni SA, Mandal JR, Henry DM, Bartz KS, Van Schaik SM. Faculty Development for the People: Workplace-Based Solutions for Busy Clinicians. Clin Teach.2025 Jun;22(3):e70073.

Coss NA, Sinskey JL, van den Hout J, Chang JM, Legrand M, Schwartz R.

Clinical team flow in the perioperative environment: a qualitative single-centre study.Br J Anaesth. 2025 Mar;134(3):882-884.

Fong N, Lipnick MS, Behnke E, Chou Y, Elmankabadi S, Ortiz L, Almond CS, Auchus I, Burnett GW, Bisegerwa R, Conrad DR, Hendrickson CM, Hooli S, Kopotic R, Leeb G, Martin D, McCollum ED, Monk EP, Moore KL Jr, Shmuylovich L, Scott JB, Wong AI, Zhou T, Pirracchio R, Bickler PE, Feiner J, Law TJ. Open Access Dataset and Common Data Model for Pulse Oximeter Performance Data. Sci Data.2025 Apr 3;12(1):570.

Victoria N, Victoria N, Isaac G, Jonathan K, Charles BH, Esther ND, Kintu MT, Elizabeth N, Gerald C, Nelson LE, Marvin KA, Mwaka FM, Law TJ, Alenyo AN, Fred B. Acute trauma care training in undergraduate medical education programs in Uganda; A cross-sectional survey of final year medical students. Afr J Emerg Med. 2025 Jun;15(2):602-606.

Young S, Mathew M, Keene E, Lebo M, Sooch R, Kim TY, Battaglini D, Norte G, Puera-Martinez F, Puerta-Martinez JJ, Abramovich I, Leiva R, Srinivasan T, Shaye D, Shapiro FE. Global Access to Clinical Office-Based Surgical and Anesthesia Practices. Anesth Analg. 2025 Apr 25.