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
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