January 28, 2025 By Morgen Ahearn Appointments and Committee Memberships Judith Hellman, MD. Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) Board of Directors. December 2024 Matthew Orlowski, MD, PharmD. UCSF Health Lean Champion. December 2024 Romain Pirracchio, MD, PhD. Executive Vice Chair of Adult Anesthesiology. Effective March 1, 2025 John Turnbull, MD. Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators. Awards Alex Perez, MD, PhD. The expression of transposable elements as a function of age and determines the dynamics of transposable element de-repression in sepsis. Furthermore, this work will interrogate the role transposable elements play in septic immune aging and the effect this immune response has on patient morbidity and mortality. NIH K08 Award. Bin Liu, PhD, and Tom Arnold, MD. Tissue-specific Choline Transporter Antibody for GBM and AML Therapy. UCSF Catalyst Award, 2025. Julian Motzkin, MD, PhD, and Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD. Intracranial Neural Biomarkers for Chronic Primary Pain Diagnosis and Treatment Selection. UCSF Catalyst Award, 2025. Clinical Highlights Pediatric Pain Clinic now open at the Center for Pain Medicine. Our pediatric pain medicine experts include Jocelyn Wong, MD, and Evelyn (Caro) Mónico, MD. Image In the News Seema Gandhi, MD. ASA Monitor Spotlight. UCSF Anesthesiologists Turn Trash into Treasure to Highlight Waste Reduction. January 2025 Chris Abrecht, MD, Julian Motzkin, MD, PhD, UCSF Center for Pain Medicine. Featured in New York Times Magazine: Chronic Pain Is a Hidden Epidemic. It's Time for a Revolution. January, 2025. Chris Abrecht, MD. Interviewed for KCBS “As Prescribed.” How do doctors approach treating chronic pain? January 28, 2025. Meetings and Presentations Odi Ehie, MD. Speaker, UCSF Center for Faculty Educators Medical Education Grand Rounds. UCSF Center for Faculty Educators - UC Berkeley Master’s Program in Education. Co-constructing Shared Professional Vision for Invisible Domains of Scrutiny. January 29, 2025. Michael Matthay, MD. Speaker, Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Research Section Grand Rounds and Basic and Translational Research Sub-Committee Meeting. ARDS: Past, Present and Future. January 28, 2025. Publications Barreto Chang OL, Cole DJ, Whittington RA. Closing the Quality Chasm for Brain Health with Implementation Science. ASA Monitor. 202589(1):p 12-13. Bergquist T, Loomba J, Pfaff E, Xia F, Zhao Z, Zhu Y, Mitchell E, Bhattacharya B, Shetty G, Munia T, Delong G, Tariq A, Butzin-Dozier Z, Ji Y, Li H, Coyle J, Shi S, Philips RV, Mertens A, Pirracchio R, van der Laan M, Colford JM Jr, Hubbard A, Gao J, Chen G, Velingker N, Li Z, Wu Y, Stein A, Huang J, Dai Z, Long Q, Naik M, Holmes J, Mowery D, Wong E, Parekh R, Getzen E, Hightower J, Blase J; Long COVID Computational Challenge Participants; N3C Consortium. Crowd-sourced machine learning prediction of long COVID using data from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative. EBioMedicine. 2024 Oct:108:105333. Brown SES, Mentz G, Cassidy R, Wade M, Liu X, Zhong W, DiBello J, Nause-Osthoff R, Kheterpal S, Colquhoun DA; Multicenter Outcomes Group (MPOG) Perioperative Clinical Research Committee. Collaborators include: Sharma A.Factors Associated With Decision to Use and Dosing of Sugammadex in Children: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Observational Study. Anesth Analg. 2025 Jan 1;140(1):87-98. Chesebro BB, Gandhi S.Mitigating the systemic loss of nitrous oxide: a narrative review and data-driven practice analysis. Br J Anaesth. 2024Dec;133(6):1413-1418. Feng J, Xia F, Singh K, Pirracchio R. Not All Clinical AI Monitoring Systems Are Created Equal: Review and Recommendations. NEJM AI.2025 2(2). Gregory DJ, Han F, Li P, Gritsenko MA, Kyle J, Riley FE, Chavez D, Yotova V, Sindeaux RHM, Hawash MBF, Xu F, Hung LY, Hayden DL, Tompkins RG, Lanford RE, Kobzik L, Hellman J, Jacobs JM, Barreiro LB, Xiao W, Warren HS. Molecular profiles of blood from numerous species that differ in sensitivity to acute inflammation.Mol Med. 2024 Dec 28;30(1):280. Han SH, Kiroff KL, Kinjo S. Extended reality in anesthesia: a narrative review. Korean J Anesthesiol. 2025 Jan 15. He L,Zhao W, Su PP, Liao X, Zhao J, Dou Z, Wang H, Yang L, Guan Z. A Novel Ultrasonographic Method to Quickly and Accurately Access the C2 Dorsal Root Ganglion.Pain Physician.2024 Nov;27(8):E927-E935. Heintz TA, Badathala A, Wooten A, Cu CW, Wallace A, Pham B, Wallace AW, Cobert J. Preliminary Development and Validation of Automated Nociception Recognition Using Computer Vision in Perioperative Patients. Anesthesiology. 2025 Jan 13. Hirani S, Vu P, Halac M, Bohacek S, Benkli B, Jevotovsky D, Vega J, Hirani A, Orhurhu V, Odonkor C, Ehrenfeld J, Shadid I, Azadian A, Mayrsohn B, Kwon A, Hirani Z, Osuagwu U, Bird J, Gilligan C, Darnall B, Williams K, Hooten WM, Srinivasan S. Transforming Pain Medicine: The Power of Collaboration, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation. Pain Med. 2025 Jan 2:pnae130. Howard MK, Hoppe N, Huang XP, Mitrovic D, Billesbølle CB, Macdonald CB, Mehrotra E, Rockefeller Grimes P, Trinidad DD, Delemotte L, English JG, Coyote-Maestas W, Manglik A. Molecular basis of proton sensing by G protein-coupled receptors. Cell. 2024 Dec 26:S0092-8674(24)01373-4. Institute of Neuromodulation Device Disposition Committee; Veuthey TL, Duricka D, Englot DJ, Provenzano DA, Dickerson DM, Dhruva S, Loftus CM, Meizu-Nwaba N, McMullen DP, North RB, D'Haese P, Konrad PE, Poree L. Tracking and Failure Analysis of Explanted Neuromodulation Devices. Neuromodulation. 2025 Jan 17:S1094-7159(24)01236-4. Jevotovsky DS, Oehlermarx W, Chen T, Ortiz CC, Liu A, Sahni S, Kessler JL, Poli JJ, Lau R. Weathering the Pain: Ambient Temperature's Role in Chronic Pain Syndromes. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2025 Jan 23;29(1):31. Joo H, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Chen CL, Sun CQ, Smith AK, Boscardin WJ, Whitlock EL. Cognitive Trajectory Before and After Cataract Surgery: A Population-Based Approach. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025Jan 11. Joo H, Nguyen K, Kolodzie K, Chen Ll, Kim MO, Manuel S. Differences in Acute Postoperative Opioid Use by English Proficiency, Race, and Ethnicity After Total Knee and Hip Arthroplasty. Anesth Analg. 2025 Jan 1;140(1):155-164. Kim HS, Hardiman MM, Pickering AM. Protein Translation Rates Are Negatively Correlated With Lifespan in Inbred Drosophila Strains. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2025 Jan 16;80(2):glae289. Leir SA, Law TJ, Bould MD. The anesthesia human resources crisis in Canada. Can J Anaesth. 2024 Dec;71(12):1612-1626. Marcus SG, Brusca SB. Close Enough? Feasibility, Success, and Sustainability of Critical Care Echocardiography Curricula. ATS Sch. 2024 Dec 30;5(4):475-478. Mattie R, Lin AB, Bhandal H, Gill B, Tram J, Braun S, Prabakar N, Yin CT, Brar N, Fox A, Saltychev M. Spinal cord stimulation for the treatment of complex regional pain syndrome: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Interv Pain Med. 2024 Dec 5;3(4):100527. McCann L, Lewis L, Oduntan O, Harris J, Darley A, Berg GV, Lubowitzki S, Cheevers K, Miller M, Armes J, Ream E, Fox P, Furlong EP, Gaiger A, Kotronoulas G, Patiraki E, Katsaragakis S, McCrone P, Miaskowski C, Cardone A, Orr D, Flowerday A, Skene S, Moore M, De Souza N, Donnan P, Maguire R. Patients' and Clinicians' Experiences Using a Real-Time Remote Monitoring System for Chemotherapy Symptom Management (ASyMS): Qualitative Study. J Med Internet Res. 2024Dec 3;26:e53834. McGowan SK, Corrales-Martinez MJ, Brender T, Smith AK, Kim S, Harrison KL, Mills H, Lee A, Bamman D, Cobert J. Unclear Trajectory and Uncertain Benefit: Creating a Lexicon for Clinical Uncertainty in Patients with Critical or Advanced Illness Using a Delphi Consensus Process. Med Decis Making. 2025 Jan;45(1):34-44. Mladinov D, Isaza E, Gosling AF, Clark AL, Kukreja J, Brzezinski M. Perioperative Fluid Management. Clin Geriatr Med. 2025 Feb;41(1):83-99. Pawar N, Zhou S, Duarte K, Wise A, García PS, Kreuzer M, Barreto Chang OL. Intraoperative Burst Suppression by Analysis of Raw Electroencephalogram Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults Undergoing Spine Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study.J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. 2024 Nov 19. Phero A, Bokoch MP, Kothari R, Fong N, Chen D, Pirracchio R, Legrand M, Whitlock EL. Postoperative Delirium in a Randomized Trial of Intraoperative Norepinephrine versus Phenylephrine Infusion. Anesthesiology. 2025 Jan 1;142(1):234-237. Sieber F, McIsaac DI, Deiner S, Azefor T, Berger M, Hughes C, Leung JM, Maldon J, McSwain JR, Neuman MD, Russell MM, Tang V, Whitlock E, Whittington R, Marbella AM, Agarkar M, Ramirez S, Dyer A, Friel Blanck J, Uhl S, Grant MD, Domino KB. 2025 American Society of Anesthesiologists Practice Advisory for Perioperative Care of Older Adults Scheduled for Inpatient Surgery. Anesthesiology. 2025 Jan 1;142(1):22-51. Slepneva N, Basich-Pease G, Reid L, Frank AC, Norbu T, Krystal AD, Sugrue LP, Motzkin JC, Larson PS, Starr PA, Morrison MA, Lee AM. Therapeutic DBS for OCD Suppresses the Default Mode Network. Hum Brain Mapp. 2024 Dec 15;45(18):e70106. Song MJ, Jang Y, Legrand M, Park S, Ko R, Suh GY, Oh DK, Lee SY, Park MH, Lim CM, Jung SY, Lim SY; Korean Sepsis Alliance (KSA) investigator. Epidemiology of sepsis-associated acute kidney injury in critically ill patients: a multicenter, prospective, observational cohort study in South Korea. Crit Care. 2024Nov 24;28(1):383. Sun J, Du X, Chen Y. Current Progress on Postoperative Cognitive Dysfunction: An Update. J Integr Neurosci. 2024 Dec 24;23(12):224.
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