Department Honors, Awards and Appointments: April - May, 2024

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We're pleased to share some of our department members' honors, awards and appointments, from March and April, 2024.

Appointments

Matt Aldrich, MD. Senior Physician Executive of UCSF Health Capacity and Throughput

Karen Fleming, MD. UC Berkeley - UCSF Undergraduate Research Internship (URI) Summer Research Program Co-Associate Director

Ludwig Lin, MD. Section Editor, CSA Vital Times 2023 Issue

Meetings and Presentations

Julia Collins, Abigail Howard, Dieter Adelmann, Michael Bokoch, Pedram Aleshi. Surgeon-performed vs anesthesiologist-performed transversus abdominus plane blocks and post-operative opioid use after laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. ASRA Pain Medicine Meeting Poster

Jannot Ross. ZSFG StoryCore Event Speaker. May 14, 2024

PARC Neuromodulation Symposium held April 20, 2024

Seif B. Elmankabadi, Yu Celine Chou, Lily Ortiz, Ella Behnke, Rene Vargas Zamora, Christine E. Kuo, Carolyn M. Hendrickson, Sky Vanderburg, Gregory Leeb, Isabella Auchus, Tyler Law, Philip Bickler, Ronald Bisegerwa, John Feiner, Shamsudini Hashi, Fekir Negussie, Olubunmi Okunlola, Michael Bernstein, Michael Lipnick. Comparison of Pulse Oximeter Performance with a Functional Tester and Healthy Human Hypoxemia Study. WFSA World Congress

Maytinee Lilaonitkul, MBBS. Education, Simulation and Development: Findings from Utstein Meeting in Simulation - Adapting Recommendations to Local Culture and Context. WFSA World Congress

Lenard Babus, MD; Kathleen Chen, MD; Clint Fuller, MD; Justin Libaw, MD; Kim-Phuong Thi Nguyen, MD; Vanessa A. Olbrecht, MD, MBA, FASA; Asheen Rama, MD; Samuel Rodriguez, MD; Jina Sinskey, MD; Jonathan M. Tan, MD, MPH, MBI, FASA; James J. Thomas, MD; Romy Yun, MD. Coordinator: Thomas Caruso, MD, PhD, FASA; Ellen Ya-Ping Wang, MD. Immersive Technologies in Perioperative Anxiety and Chronic Pain Management. SPA-AAP Meeting.

Stephanie Black, MD, EdM; Norah R. Janosy, MD; Samuel D. Yanofsky, MD, MSEd. Coordinator: Rebecca Margolis, DO, FAOCA; Jina Sinskey, MD. First Steps in Transforming Culture in Well-being: Selecting Evidence-based Interventions to Promote an Environment of Well-Being. SPA-AAP Meeting.

Matthew G. DiGiusto, MD; Sapna Kudchadkar, MD, PhD, FCCM; Jina Sinskey, MD. Coordinator: Sean Barnes, MD. Leveraging Social Media To Better Your Professional Career. SPA-AAP Meeting.

Jina Sinskey, MD; Amy E. Vinson, MD. Wellness as Pathway to Leadership/Promotion. SPA-AAP Meeting.

Jina Sinskey, MD, Moderator. From The Editors - Notable Papers From the Past Year. SPA-AAP Meeting.

Honors

Vanessa Henke, MD. California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA) Clinical Innovator of the Year Award.

Aashish Manglik, MD, PhD. Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science. Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 5 to 7 p.m.

Awards

Drs. Michael Matthay and Carolyn Calfee. To Test the Efficacy of Allogeneic Bone Marrow Derived MSCs in a Mouse Model of Hyper- and Hypo-Inflammatory ARDS. CTMCT Award.

Department-Sponsored DEI Grants Awarded

Odi Ehie, MD. Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) Funding, DEI Curriculum. Publicly accessible for free.

Jina Sinskey, MD, Rachel Schwartz, PhD. NIH R25 Award. Training to Enhance Researcher Resilience and Adaptability (TERRA)

Teaching, Mentorship and Pathway Programs

Odi Ehie, MD, and Karen Fleming, MD. American Medical School Association (AMSA), UC Berkeley Chapter, Physician Panel. Panelists spoke to UC Berkeley undergraduate students about their pathways in medicine with the hope to inspire them to apply. April 18, 2024

Odi Ehie, MD, Fekir Negussie, MPH. Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA) Interns (2), in partnership with FirstGen Interns, a summer pathway program for high school students.

Irfan Kathiriya, MD, PhD. Mentor. UCSF Bays Mentorship Program. Summer 2024.

FACES for the Future Coalition Internship Program students’ graduation, April 2024.

SCORE Program held April 19, 2024

UCSF School of Medicine Teaching Scholar Inductees, 2024-2025

Denise Chang, MD

Dylan Masters, MD

Albert Yen, MD