Department Honors, Awards, Appointments and Publications - December 2024

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December 30, 2024
By Morgen Ahearn

Clinical Highlight

Mina Khorashadi, MD, Cardiac Anesthesia Fellow Amy Locke, MD, and CA2 Resident Zachary Lerner, MD. Anesthesia team for first total artificial heart procedure at UCSF.

Meetings and Presentations

Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD. Presenter, Panelist: Translating Personal Resilience into Professional Success. Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM) Conference. November 2, 2024.

12th Annual Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care Research Day.

Guest speaker: Duminda N. Wijeysundera MD, PhD, FRCPC. Assessment of Functional Capacity Before Noncardiac Surgery: Does it Matter and How Should We Do It? 

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Oral Presentations. Faculty Moderators: Wei Zhou, MD, PhD and Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD

  • Irfan Kathiriya, MD, PhD. Human non-coding de novo variants associated with congenital heart defects coincide with genetically susceptible chromatin regions.
  • Paul Su, MD. Distinguishing nerve regeneration and pain behavior after surgery - exploring ATF3-dependent and ATF3-independent genes after hind paw incision.
  • Jarret Weinrich, PhD. Cortical Signatures of Pain and Analgesia After Bone Fracture.


Spotlight on Health Services Research.

  • Catherine Chen, MD, MPH. The Role of Monitored Anesthesia Care for Cataract Surgery Sedation: What Have We Learned So Far?”


Moderated ePoster Presentations. Faculty Moderators: Wei Zhou, MD, PhD and Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD

  • Nicholas Mendez, MD. Acute Kidney Injury within 72 hours of Liver Transplant is Associated with Renal Failure at One Year Post-Transplant.
  • Shantel Weinsheimer, PhD. Identification of circulating epigenetic biomarkers for hemorrhage in brain arteriovenous malformation by whole-genome methylome profiling.
  • Alexendar Perez, MD, PhD. CRISPR Screens Using Genomic Safe Harbor Specificity Matching Reveals Multiple Novel Oncogenes in Small Cell Lung Cancer.
  • Nima Sadrian, MD. Effects of Adolescent CBD Exposure on Neural Development and Behavior in Rats.
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Publications

Gelb AW, Schwarz SKW. Editors' Note: December 2024 Special Issue on anesthesia in Canada-from human resource challenges to a celebration of giants. Can J Anaesth. 2024 Dec 10.

Kim HS, Hardiman MM, Pickering AM. Protein translation rates are negatively correlated with lifespan in in-bred Drosophila strains. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2024 Dec 13:glae289.

Legrand M, Khanna AK, Ostermann M, Kotani Y, Ferrer R, Girardis M, Leone M, DePascale G, Pickkers P, Tissieres P, Annoni F, Kotfis K, Landoni G, Zarbock A, Wieruszewski PM, De Backer D, Vincent JL, Bellomo R. The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone-system in sepsis and its clinical modulation with exogenous angiotensin II. Crit Care. 2024 Nov 26;28(1):389.

Li J, Inoue A, Manglik A, von Zastrow M. Role of the GRK2/3 N-terminus in discriminating the endocytic effects of opioid agonist drugs. Mol Pharmacol. 2024 Nov 6:MOLPHARM-AR-2024-000951.