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

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October 30, 2025
By Morgen Ahearn

Awards

Dieter Adelmann, MD, PhD. Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research (FAER) Alison Cole, PhD, Mentored Research Training Grant Award. This award honors the MRTG recipient with the best application score among grantees awarded for the year.

Events

Department Community Service Program with the National AIDS Memorial organization at the AIDS Memorial Grove in Golden Gate Park.

The Second George Gregory Annual Lecture featuring guest speaker Steven Paul Miller, MDCM, FRCPC, FRSC, the James and Annabel McCreary Chair in Pediatrics, at the University of British Columbia.

Honors

Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD. Featured by the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA). ASRA members can access the interview here.

Adrian Gelb, MBBS. American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) / American Patient Safety Foundation (APSF) Ellison C. Pierce Jr, MD, Patient Safety Memorial Lecturer

In the News

Erica Langnas, MD and Catherine Chen, MD, MPH. Research paper featured in The Journal of Pediatrics editorial: Balancing Relief and Risk: The Potential Impact of Pediatric Opioid Prescriptions on Family Members.

Nima Sadrian, MD, MSc. Viewpoint article featured in Undark: Opinion: CBD’s Unseen Effects on the Teenage Brain.

Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD. UCSF News Feature: Is the Holy Grail for Treating Chronic Back Pain Within Reach?

Meetings and Presentations

American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) 2025

See our department members’ presentations, here.

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Alexander Butwick, MBBS, MS, FRCA. Visiting Professor, University of Maine, Department of Anesthesia, Grand Rounds: Postpartum Hemorrhage: What's the Latest?

Odi Ehie, MD, MAEd, FASA. International Keynote Speaker, Society for Paediatric Anaesthesia in New Zealand and Australia (SPANZA) Annual Scientific Meeting.

Jina Sinskey, MD. Program Chair, 39th Annual Meeting of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA).

Mentorship and Pathway

Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD. Coordinated the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) 9th Annual Doctors Back to School Program, bringing together anesthesiologists and volunteers from across the country, to provide KIPP San Antonio Public Middle School students with an opportunity for early exposure to careers in medicine.

Sinha, Anika BS, Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD. The Value of Mentoring Medical Students: A Mentor/Mentee Perspective. ASA Monitor 89(10):p 29, October 2025.

Podcasts

Helen Kim, PhD, MPH. JAMA Neurology Author Interviews. Hemorrhage and Risk Factors in Unruptured Brain AVM. October 6, 2025.

Publications

Books and Book Chapters

Andrew Gray, MD, PhD. Atlas of Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia, 4th Edition.

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Journal Articles

Adelmann D, Hartmann J, Moore HB, Yockelson SR, Dageforde LA, Chitilian H, Little MB, Bliden KP, Gurbel PA, Tantry US, Subramaniam K, Sakai T. TEG® 6s heparin neutralization cartridge for hemostatic assessment of patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery. Anesthesiology. 2025 Sep 18.

Bogart AM, Obeidalla SN, van Amstel RBE, Cremer O, Bos LDJ, Bartek B, Sinha PS, Calfee CS, Kerchberger VE, Ware LB. Premorbid Metabolic Syndrome Is Associated with the Hypoinflammatory Phenotype in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and Sepsis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Oct 10.

Ciampi de Andrade D, Shirvalkar P. The future of pain research: neuromodulation and surgery. Pain. 2025;166(11S):S116-S120.

Cu CW, Dundas NE, Heintz T, Sheikh ZA, Alonso-Bermudez B, Walker J, Wooten A, Badathala A, Chapman A, Ehie O, Raghunathan K, Mills H, Espejo E, Boscardin J, Wallace AW, Cobert J. Validity of two subjective skin tone scales and its implications on healthcare model fairness. NPJ Digit Med. 2025;8(1):595.

Dépret F, Chen D, Legrand M. Reply to Yang and Chu: Methodological Considerations in the Iloprost for Septic Shock Trial. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Oct 06.

Kim H, Nelson J, McCulloch CE, Hess C, Hetts SW, Flemming K, Lanzino GS 2nd, Koroknay-Pál P, Oulasvirta E, Laakso A, Lawton MT, Mohr JP, Morgan MK, Moayeri N, Zaroff JG, Stefani MA, Chen X, Zhao Y, Al-Shahi Salman R. Risk of Future Hemorrhage From Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous Malformations: The Multicenter Arteriovenous Malformation Research Study (MARS). JAMA Neurol. 2025 Oct 6.

Legrand M, Saugel B, Joosten A. Preventing Hypotension during Induction of General Anesthesia: Is Preemptive Norepinephrine the Answer? Anesthesiology. 2025;143(5):1139-1141.

Lipnick MS, Chen D, Law T, Moore K, Lester JC, Monk EP, Hendrickson CM, Chou Y, Hughes C, Behnke E, Elmankabadi S, Ortiz L, Negussie F, Leeb G, Ehie O, Auchus I, Igaga EN, Bisegerwa R, Okunlola O, Bickler P, Feiner J, Shmuylovich L. Comparison of methods for characterizing skin pigment diversity in research cohorts. Br J Dermatol. 2025 Oct 10.

Maruyama D, Doan TNM, Tian X, Chaki T, Yeh JJ, Layden BT, Prakash A. Gut Microbiota-Derived Lipopolysaccharides and Short-Chain Fatty Acids Regulate Immune Responses via FFAR2/FFAR3 in Lung Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2025 Oct 01.

Matthay MA, Sarma A, Alipanah-Lechner N, Zhuo H. Reply to Zhou and Yang: Biological Heterogeneity and Biomarker-driven Personalization: Advancing MSC Therapy for ARDS. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Oct 15.

Monteiro AC, Bartek B, Tripathi S, Calfee CS, Matthay MA, Sinha P. Short Stature Is an Independent Risk Factor for Ventilatory Inefficiency and Higher Mortality in ARDS. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Sep 30.

Padilla A, Stockinger J, Zanolli NC, Hurwitz R, Ende HB, Butwick AJ, Warrick CM, Hess PE, Mathis M, Fuller M, Habib AS. Mode of Anesthesia for Patients with Placenta Accreta Spectrum undergoing Cesarean Hysterectomy: A Report from the Multicenter Perioperative Outcomes Group Database. Anesthesiology. 2025 Oct 06.

Weinrich JAP, Liu CD, Jewell ME, Andolina CR, Bernstein MX, Benitez J, Rodriguez-Rosado S, Braz JM, Maze M, Nemenov MI, Basbaum AI. Paradoxical increases in anterior cingulate cortex activity during nitrous oxide-induced analgesia reveal a signature of pain affect. Pain. 2025;166(11):2576-2587.

Woolley K, Wang K, Niknam K, Wague A, Marino M, Feeley BT, Ma CB, Eckelman MJ, Gandhi S, Lansdown D. The Environmental Impact of Short-Stay Total Shoulder Arthroplasty. JB JS Open Access. 2025;10(4).

Xiao AX, Chen B, Chiong C, Lee NH, Immerman I, Kinjo S. Digital Doses: Virtual Reality Use for Perioperative Pain and Anxiety in Patients Undergoing Hand Surgery. J Hand Surg Glob Online. 2025;7(6):100830.

Zarbock A, Vincent J, De Backer D, Bellomo R, Legrand M, Khanna AK, Ostermann M, Kotfis K, Filippo A, Wieruszewski PM, Leone M, Girardis M, Ferrer R, Kotani Y, Pickkers P, De Pascale G, Tissieres P, Landoni G. The Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System in Cardiac Surgery and Angiotensin II Therapy for Vasoplegia. Anesth Analg. 2025 Oct 01.

Zhuang C, Xu F, Tsutsui K, Bokoch MP, Hellman J. Microbial and host inflammatory factors induce permeability and activate cytokine production by human glomerular microvascular endothelial cells. Shock. 2025 Sep 12. 


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