Committed to serving our diverse communities, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care faculty members, trainees, and staff are engaged in a variety of activities in support of health equity, diversity, inclusion and wellbeing. A brief update of recent work is outlined below.
Honors
Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD received the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Julien Cobert, MD awarded the 2024 Society of Critical Care Medicine Weil grant for his proposal, "Racialization of ICU Notes and Debiasing Strategies to Lead to Fairer ICU Mortality Prediction."
Chancellor’s Award for Diversity. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership: Leah Pimentel, MBA.
Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD, Recipient of the 2024 North American Neuromodulation Society (NANS) Kumar Award. The award is given to a primary investigator in the first 10 years after their training for a manuscript that advances the field of neuromodulation. As part of the award, Shirvalkar will present his winning manuscript on First-in-human prediction of chronic pain state using intracranial neural biomarkers at the NANS 2024 plenary session.
Appointments
Nu Cindy Chai, MD, Appointed a Director-at-Large for the Association of Pain Program Directors
Romain Pirracchio, MD MPH PhD FCCM, Appointed AI Algorithm Evaluation and Monitoring Advisor for the UCSF Chief Informatics Office
Awards
Alexendar Perez, MD, PhD, Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) Research Fellowship Grant
Primary Mentor: Judith Hellman, MD
Secondary Mentor: Joana Vidigal, PhD
Tertiary Mentor: Matthieu Legrand, MD, PhD
Project Title: Role of Transposable Elements in Septic Immune Aging
Publications
Impostor syndrome in anaesthesiology primarily affects female and junior physicians. Mia Gisselbaek, Sonia Hontoir, Anaîs E. Pesonen, Laurence Seidel, Benedicte Geniets, Evi Steen, Odmara L. Barreto Chang, Sarah Saxena. British Journal of Anaesthesia. Available online 25 October 2023.
A Summary of Diversity in Anesthesiology Among Medical Students, Anesthesiology Residents, and Anesthesiology Faculty. Armaneous M, Boscardin CK, Earnest GE, Ehie O. Anesth Analg. 2023 Oct 1;137(4):800-802.
Discharge Opioid Over- and Underprescription to Patients after General Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Lucy S Guan, MPH, Erica Langnas, MD, MPH, Tasce Bongiovanni, MD, Liam J Campbell, MS, Elizabeth C Wick, MD, Zhonghui Guan, MD. Journal of the American College of Surgeons 237(2):332-342, August 2023.
Other News
Construction in process for the Bayfront Center for Pain Medicine.
ZSFG Anesthesia will be hosting local students for the FACES for the Future Program.
Meetings and Presentations
Wellness Champs Virtual Summit. Beyond Resilience: How to Operationalize Clinician Well-Being with the Quality of Life Improvement (QOLI) Approach. Jina Sinskey, MD.
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Annual Meeting 2023
2023 Doctor's Back to School Program. Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD, Niti Pawar.
Snap Talk: Mentorship Matters: The Power of Pipelines. Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD.
Best of Abstracts: Clinical Science. Co-moderator Martin London, MD. Real-World Clinical Study of Pulse Oximeter Accuracy Across Different Skin Colors: The EquiOx Trial. Philip Bickler, MD, PhD, Carolyn M. Hendrickson, MD, Tyler J. Law, MD, Michael S. Lipnick, MD, Caroline Hughes, BS, Seif Elmankabadi, BS, Kelvin Lamont Moore, BS, Celine Chou, BS, John R. Feiner, MD, Gregory Leeb, MBBS.
Implementing Inclusive Leadership: Mitigating Unconscious Bias, Addressing Microaggression, and Enhancing Allyship. Charlene Blake, MD, PhD; Odi Ehie, MD, FASA, Rondall Lane, MD, et al.
Organ transplantation in the elderly – How old is too old? “Lung transplant outcomes in the elderly” Marek Brzezinski, MD, PhD.
Geriatric Anesthesia. Surgical Risk Prediction Using Machine Learning For Major Postoperative Complications After Urgent And Emergent Non-Cardiac Surgery In The Geriatric Population. Joshua Chiu, MD, et al.
What is Diversity Equity and Inclusion in the global context? Moderator Adrian Gelb, MBChB. Speaker: Odi Ehie, MD, FASA, “DEI Initiatives for Leaders: Implementation of a DEI Curriculum”
Teaching Leadership: Educating Future Leaders Panel. Implementation of a DEJ curriculum. Odi Ehie, MD, FASA.
Global Health and Health Equity for All: From Residency through Retirement Panel. Health Equity Home and Abroad. Odi Ehie, MD, FASA.
Feasibility of various skin color quantification methods and implications for reducing pulse oximeter bias. Seif Elmankabadi, BS, Yu Chou, BS, Tyler J. Law, MD, Leonid Shmuylovich, MD, Gregory Leeb, MBBS, Caroline Hughes, BS, Philip E. Bickler, MD, PhD, Olubunmi Okunlola, MD, Michael S. Lipnick, MD, Carolyn M. Hendrickson, MD, MPH.
Practical Patient Safety and Practice Management. The Trans Airway Consideration (tac) Card: A Cognitive Aid To Improve Healthcare Equity. Raina Khan, MD, Jennifer Hong Woodbury, MD, Naveed Khan, MD, Inna Hussain, MD, P. Daniel Knott, MD, Gabriel E. Sarah, MD, Ronald George, MD.
Equipment, Monitoring and Engineering Technology. Performance Of 11 Fingertip Pulse Oximeters In Human Subjects With Varied, Quantified Skin Pigment. Gregory Leeb, MB, BS, Isabella Catherine Auchus, MD, Philip E. Bickler, MD, PhD, John R. Feiner, MD, Olubunmi E. Okunlola, MD, Jana Fernandez, BSc, Leonid Shmuylovich, MD, PhD, Caroline Hughes, BA, Deleree Schornack, BA, Michael S. Lipnick, MD.
Geriatric Anesthesia - Comparing Postoperative Cognitive Decline In Older Adults To Subjective Cognitive Complaints. Jacqueline M. Leung, MD, MPH, et al. 10/15, 8-9 am PT.
Perioperative Management of the Aging patient-A practical guide to Frailty, Cognition, Shared Decision Making. Jacqueline Leung, MD, MPH, “Cognitive screening as part of your preop assessment-Made quick and easy”
Patient Safety and Practice Management II. Anesthesia Breathing Circuit Reuse is Common Globally, But Rare in the United States: An International Cross-Sectional Survey. Charlotte Young, Kaiyi Wang, Patience Atumanya, Michael Lipnick, MD, Adrian Gelb, MBChB, Seema Gandhi, MD.
History and Education II. Delayed Childbirth and Low Well-Being among Female-Identifying Residents in Anesthesiology. Niti Pawar, Christy Boscardin, PhD, Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD.
Transforming Organizational Culture to Support Well-Being: How You Can Be Part of the Solution. Jina Sinskey, MD, Joyce Chang, MD.
ASA Well-Being Committee. Jina Sinskey, MD.
Quality Improvement: Optimizing Perioperative Dynamics and Team Flow. Jina Sinskey, MD, Joyce Chang, MD, Matthieu Legrand, MD, PhD, Rachel Schwartz, PhD
Critically Ill Limited English Proficient Patients Receive Less Sedation. Thanh-Giang Vu, MD, Aaron W. Scheffler, PhD, Romain C. Pirracchio, MD, PhD, Elizabeth L. Whitlock, MD, MS.
Practical Patient Safety and Practice Management. Mismatched Discharge Opioid Prescription To Patients After Cardiac Surgery. Lingyi Zhang, MD, Erica M. Langnas, MD, MPH, Wulin Tan, MD, Arthur Wallace, MD, Tom Nguyen, MD, Zhonghui Guan, MD.