Department Honors, Awards, Appointments, and Publications - December 2025

Appointments

Claas Siegmueller, MD, PhD, MBA. Appointed Honorary Professor at University of Namibia (UNAM) Department of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine.

Events

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13th Annual Anesthesia Research Day. December 5, 2025.

Anesthesia Holiday Reception. December 13, 2025.

Opening Ceremony for the Patient No More Exhibition sponsored by the UCSF Office of Disability Access and Inclusion and the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, and displayed at the UCSF Kalmanovitz Library.

Publications

Bishara A, Lin M, Digitale J, Yim JWL, Soleimani H, Robinowitz D, Pletcher M, Ramaswamy P. AI-Guided Surgical Blood Readiness: Overcoming Real-World Challenges in Prospective Validation for Safer, More Efficient Blood Preparation. NEJM AI. 2025 Nov 26;2(12).

Barreto Chang OL, Wise AB, Sinha A, Possin KL, Boxer A, Staffaroni AM, Collaborators. Remote Cognitive Testing for Detection of Baseline Cognitive Impairment and Prediction of Postoperative Delirium Risk: A Pilot Study. Anesth Analg. 2025 Dec 08.

Boutin L, Figueroa SM, Roger E, Hadjadj S, Piedagnel R, Gayat E, Samuel J, Legrand M, Dépret F, Chadjichristos CE. Galectin-3/CD146 interaction promotes renal damage and systemic inflammation after acute kidney injury. Sci Rep. 2025;15(1):41575.

Darmon M, Legrand M, Ostermann M. Update on acute kidney injury: some progresses and a long way to go. Intensive Care Med. 2025;51(12):2403-2405.

Donovan AL, Chang J, Sinskey J, Schwartz R. Understanding professional disparities in academic anesthesiology: a single-center gender-based survey study. BMC Anesthesiol. 2025 Dec 07.

Elmankabadi S, Dove J, Behnke E, Chou YC, Ortiz L, Leeb G, Auchus I, Chen D, Feiner J, Law TJ, Bickler PE, Hashi S, Zamora RV, Negussie F, Bisegerwa R, Bernstein M, Lipnick MS. Comparing pulse oximeter performance using a common functional tester versus controlled desaturation studies on healthy participants. J Clin Monit Comput. 2025 Nov 14.

Gadre A, Cobert J, Ramaswamy P. Silent Contaminants: The Unseen Threat of Microplastics in the Perioperative Period. Anesth Analg. 2025 Nov 25.

Hota SK, Rao KS, Blair AP, Khalilimeybodi A, Hu KM, Thomas R, So K, Kameswaran V, Xu J, Polacco BJ, Desai RV, Chatterjee N, Hsu A, Muncie JM, Blotnick AM, Winchester SAB, Weinberger LS, Hüttenhain R, Kathiriya IS, Krogan NJ, Saucerman JJ, Bruneau BG. Author Correction: Brahma safeguards canalization of cardiac mesoderm differentiation. Nature. 2025;648(8092):E2.

Legrand M, Lipnick M, Pirracchio R. Sepsis phenotypes in sub-Saharan Africa: a step toward fixing the growing scientific fracture with resource-limited settings. Intensive Care Med. 2025 Dec 08.

Legrand M, Pirracchio R. Beyond statistical heterogeneity: physiological individualization in septic shock resuscitation. Authors' Reply. Intensive Care Med. 2025;51(12):2473-2474.

Leng L, Maremanda A, Li KD, Pace WA, Myrga J, Fernandez AM, Chu PW, Carlisle MN, Abbasi B, Faris AR, Frankiewicz M, Hakam N, Afanador A, Schwartz R, Breyer BN. Genitourinary Radiation Injury: a Mixed-Methods Study Exploring Patient-Reported Outcomes and Impact on Quality of Life. Urology. 2025 Dec 06.

Liu KD, Siew ED, Tuot DS, Vijayan A, Matzumura Umemoto G, Birkelo BC, Lee BJ, Kwong YD, McCoy IE, Delucchi K, Zhuo H, Hsu C. A Conservative Dialysis Strategy and Kidney Function Recovery in Dialysis-Requiring Acute Kidney Injury: The Liberation From Acute Dialysis (LIBERATE-D) Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA. 2025 Nov 07.

Lyang N, Schwartz R, Ramanathan S, Parikh N, Lane-Fall M, Dohan D, Chen CL. Understanding ophthalmologists' perspectives on the risk of cataract surgery. Perioper Med (Lond). 2025;14(1):133.

Nguyen CP, Nguyen HN, Tabbutt S, Sano S, Cocalis M, Nguyen H, Busch H, Dobrzycka A, Jenkins KJ, Gauvreau K, Nguyen Duc HL, Ly Thinh TN. Development of a High-Performing Congenital Heart Program in Vietnam. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2025 Nov 11.

Nguyen M, Khanna AK, Legrand M, Joosten A. Perioperative Vasopressor Management in Noncardiac Surgical Patients. Anesthesiology. 2025 Dec 12.

Pawar N, Boscardin CK, Chen D, Earnest G, Chang OLB. A U.S. based survey of loan burden among anesthesia trainees and its impact on well-being. Front Educ (Lausanne). 2025;10.

Rabl K, Gruenke L, Banfal A, Eilers H, Hellman J, Schumacher MA. Minor Cannabinoids CBD, CBG, CBN and CBC differentially modulate sensory neuron activation. bioRxiv. 2025 Oct 02.

Saal J, Kadlec K, Allawala AB, Johnston L, Leriche RB, Vatsyayan R, Han Y, Kist A, Di Ianni T, Dawes HE, Chang EF, Lee AM, Krystal AD, Moussawi K, Shirvalkar P, Sellers KK. Toward Individualized Deep Brain Stimulation: A Stereoelectroencephalography-Based Workflow for Neurostimulation Target Identification. Neuromodulation. 2025 Dec 13.

Schroeder BE, Garcia R, Cobert J, Ashana DC. Documentation of Family Surrogate Traumatic Stress in the Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Analysis. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2025 Dec 11.

Shalabi L, Ibrahim A, Ramadan S, Zreigh S, Shalabi S, Rifai M, Awad AA, Ahmed AM, Legrand M, Meyer D. Intravenous ferric carboxymaltose for iron deficiency in heart failure patients: A meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis. Eur J Pharmacol. 2025;1008:178314.

Sullivan KM, Liu KD, Matthay MA. Organ Crosstalk During Injury: Mechanisms of Lung-Kidney Interaction in Critical Illness. Compr Physiol. 2025;15(6):e70069.

Wang Q, Abdulrahim M, Young L, Lage L, Nasoohi S, Modiri N, Hong G, Ansari S, Xu R, Whitaker EE. Spatial and Temporal Assessment of Cerebral Blood Flow in a Novel Piglet Model of Neonatal Arterial Ischemic Stroke. Transl Stroke Res. 2025;17(1):4.

Waterford SD, Whitlock EL, Ad N. Mind over heart: Is cognitive decline after cardiac surgery real? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2025 Nov 06.

Wray CL, Scovotti JC, Tobis J, Honda HM, Planinsic R, Walia A, Findlay J, Wagener G, Cywinski JB, Olmos A, Markovic D, Hughes C, Humar A, Sierra-Anderson R, Farmer DG, Le DQ, Steadman RH. Long-Term Survival in Liver Transplant Patients With Coronary Artery Disease: A Multi-Institutional Study. JACC Adv. 2025;4(12 Pt 2):102299.

Zarbock A, Legrand M. How to prevent acute kidney injury postoperatively? Intensive Care Med. 2025 Nov 03.

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