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

Appointments

Helen Kim, MPH, PhD. UCSF Resident Research Training Program Ambassador.

Alex Pérez, MD, PhD. Co-Director of Anesthesiology Intensive Research Residency (AIRR).

Honors

Julian Cobert, MD. 2025 UCSF CTST RRTP Mentor of the Year Award, nominated by Kristen Vossler.

Thien Le, MD, and Laura McClung, MD. UCSF School of Medicine Excellence in Teaching Award.

David Shimabukuro, MD. UCSF Friend of Advanced Practice Providers (APPs) Award for 2025.

In the News

Alexander Butwick, MBBS, MS, FRCA. Featured in Medical Xpress: Assessing severe surgical complications from cesarean deliveries, and in Medscape: Severe Perioperative Morbidities Plague Cesarean Deliveries.

Nima Sadrian, MD, MSc, and Jeffrey Sall, PhD, MD. Authors of commentary in the Frisc: SF’s Cannabis Blind Spot is Youth Access. Brain Science Tells Us So.

Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD. UCSF News feature: From Chronic Pain to Parkinson’s, 4 Ways DBS is Changing Care.

Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD. Featured with Dr. Sanjay Gupta in CNN documentary: It Doesn’t Have to Hurt, and in CNN News Feature: Experimental brain stimulation may help turn off the ‘fire alarm’ of chronic pain. 

Publications

Abbasi B, Frankiewicz M, Hakam N, Faris A, MacCurtain BM, Breyer KEW, Breyer BN. The Impact of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders on Outcomes of Urological Surgeries. Urol Pract. 2025;12(5):613-621.

Alipanah-Lechner N, Neyton L, Sinha P, Leroux C, Bardillon K, Carrillo SA, Chak S, Chao O, Hariharan T, Henrickson C, Kangelaris K, Langelier CR, Lee D, Lin C, Liu K, Magee L, Ringor A, Sarma A, Schmiege E, Spottiswoode N, Sullivan K, Weingart MF, Willmore A, Zhuo H, Rogers AJ, Stringer KA, Matthay MA, Calfee CS. Longitudinal multi-omic signatures of ARDS and sepsis inflammatory phenotypes identify key pathways associated with mortality. medRxiv. 2025 Sep 10.

Ansay C, Chawla SA, Fong N, Lin R, Chang JM, Whitlock EL, Kothari RP, Legrand M, Bokoch MP. Local adoption of norepinephrine as the first-line vasopressor in major noncardiac surgery: impact of a pragmatic clinical trial on real-world practice. Br J Anaesth. 2025 Aug 16.

Bhat AN, Singh A, Kurien P, Su G, Chang JL, Durr ML. Barriers to Care for Sleep Surgery at a Safety Net Hospital: Qualitative Patient Experiences. Laryngoscope. 2025;135(8):2975-2983.

Chejfec-Ciociano JM, Barach P, Gelb AW. Operationalising perioperative safety: learning to walk the talk. Br J Anaesth. 2025;135(3):538-543.

Dammann P, Santos AN, Mavarani L, Guey S, Chabriat H, Herve D, Croft J, Renteria M, Jang D, Zhang J, Li D, Wu Z, Weng J, Petracca A, Fusco C, D'Agruma L, Castori M, Rath M, Pilz RA, Felbor U, Steinberg GK, Gu J, Bervini D, Goldberg J, Raabe A, Cervio A, Villamil F, Rosales J, Rauschenbach L, Riess C, Oppong MD, Karadachi H, Ahmadipour Y, Wrede KH, Jabbarli R, Deuschl C, Li Y, Santos Piedade G, Köhrmann M, Frank B, Wälchli T, Schmidt B, Overstijns M, Beck J, Fung C, Al-Shahi Salman R, Flemming KD, Lanzino G, Zafar A, Weinsheimer S, Nelson J, Zabramski JM, Akers A, Morrison L, McCulloch CE, Kim H, Sure U. Lifetime Risk of First Symptomatic ICH or Seizure in Familial Cerebral Cavernous Malformations: A Multicenter Patient Data Analysis. Neurology. 2025;105(3):e213798.

Demarquette A, Jeanneteau A, Blanchard-Daguet A, Fouquet O, Parot-Schinkel E, Lasocki S, Rineau E, Léger M. Impact of superficial and deep parasternal blocks on recovery after cardiac surgery with sternotomy: a randomised controlled trial. Br J Anaesth. 2025;135(3):764-771.

Farmer JR, Sutherland JM, Field TS, McIsaac DI, Gelb AW, Zhou LW, Sun T, Schwarz SKW, Flexman AM. Factors associated with adverse outcomes following perioperative stroke after noncardiac surgery. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2025;34(8):108346.

Farmer JR, Sutherland JM, Field TS, McIsaac DI, Gelb AW, Zhou LW, Sun T, Schwarz SKW, Flexman AM. Outcomes Following Perioperative Stroke in Cardiac Surgery Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2025;39(8):2067-2078.

Ferschl MB, Hoagland M, Nasr VG, Staffa SJ, Infosino A. Virtual or In-Person Conferences? The Success of the Visiting Scholars in Pediatric Anesthesia Program (ViSiPAP) as a Hybrid Model for Perioperative Education. Paediatr Anaesth. 2025;35(9):768-775.

Freedman BL, Velury D, Wang L, Burrows A, Miller C, Simsolo E, Firely C, Koethe B, Rastegar H, Maron BJ, Maron MS, Rowin EJ, Madias C. Electrocardiographic Features of Left Bundle Branch Block Following Septal Myectomy for Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. Heart Rhythm. 2025 Sep 06.

Gambling DR, Vogel TM, Markley JC, Traynor AJ, Cohn JH, Morgan CL. Three Years On: The Impact of the Dobbs Decision on Anesthesia Practice. Anesthesiology. 2025;143(2):261-265.

Gelb AW, Bastiani B, Tavares C. Beneath the surface: the emerging concern of covert stroke in surgery. Braz J Anesthesiol. 2025;75(5):844669.

Gordon DW, Hansen EE, Gandhi S, Kalmar A. Desflurane's Disproportionate Climate Impact: A Moral Imperative to Act Now. Anesth Analg. 2025 Aug 19.

Holland MT, Mekhail MN, Thrash G, George T, Mugan D, Paul C, Shirvalkar P, Grace W, Deer T, McGregor K, Vazquez do Campo R, Earley CJ, Walker HC. Adaptive spinal cord stimulation improves restless legs syndrome: Case report, literature review, and mechanistic hypothesis. Sleep Med. 2025;134:106664.

Hughes C, Chen D, Law T, Bickler P, Feiner J, Shmuylovich L, Behnke E, Ortiz L, Leeb G, Auchus I, Negussie F, Bisegerwa R, Zamora RV, Igaga E, Moore K, Okunlola O, Monk E, Fernandez JL, Ehie O, Wilks B, Oyefeso K, Schornack D, Sendagire C, Lipnick MS. Pulse oximeter performance and skin pigment: comparison of 34 oximeters using current and emerging regulatory frameworks. medRxiv. 2025 Aug 13.

Kalimouttou A, Seymour CW, Pirracchio R. Optimal Vasopressin Initiation in Septic Shock-Reply. JAMA. 2025;334(7):644.

Koskimäki J, Jhaveri A, Srinath A, Bindal A, Vera Cruz D, Priyanka Yeradoddi G, Lightle R, Lee J, Stadnik A, Iqbal J, Alcazar-Felix R, Hage S, Romanos S, Shenkar R, Loeb J, Faughnan ME, Weinsheimer S, Kim H, Girard R, Awad IA. Common and distinct circulating microRNAs in four neurovascular disorders. Biochem Biophys Rep. 2025;43:102189.

Kox M, Bauer M, Bos LDJ, Bouma H, Calandra T, Calfee CS, Chousterman BG, Derde LPG, Giamarellos-Bourboulis EJ, Gómez H, Netea MG, Ostermann M, van der Poll T, Scicluna BP, Seymour C, Shankar-Hari M, Shapiro N, Singer M, Venet F, Vlaar APJ, van Vught LA, Weis S, Joost Wiersinga W, Pickkers P. The immunology of sepsis: translating new insights into clinical practice. Nat Rev Nephrol. 2025 Sep 24.

LaFlam TN, Billesbølle CB, Dinh T, Wolfreys FD, Lu E, Matteson T, An J, Xu Y, Singhal A, Brandes N, Ntranos V, Manglik A, Cyster JG, Ye CJ. Phenotypic pleiotropy of missense variants in human B cell confinement receptor P2RY8. Cell Genom. 2025 Sep 09.

Layne JE, Snapper DM, Czachor ME, Lam C, Matityahu JD, Lind DRG, Huard M, Huard J, Morioka K, Motzkin JC, Basbaum AI, Weinrich JAP, Bahney CS. Deep behavioral phenotyping tracks functional recovery following tibia fracture in mice. Front Physiol. 2025;16:1630155.

Leng K, Maze M, Barreto Chang OL. Emerging Biomarkers of Postoperative Delirium at the Intersection of Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration. Frontiers Aging Neuroscience. 2025 Aug 29:17:1632947.

Leone M, Martin-Loeches I, Pirracchio R. Humans versus machine learning models: improving the outcome of trauma patients. Lancet Reg Health Eur. 2025;55:101356.

Lieberman OJ, Yao V, Velasquez G, Otero M, Bao K, Peterson K, Kobeissy FH, Pan JZ, Guan Z, Hinson HE, Baranzini SE, Hemphill JC, Singhal NS, Amorim E. Higher circulating short-chain fatty acids are associated with good neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest. Crit Care. 2025;29(1):371.

Mathis MR, Wijeysundera DN, London MJ. Cardiac Output Measurement and Reporting: More Than Just Going with the Flow. Anesthesiology. 2025;143(3):487-490.

McKay RE, Kohn MA, Larson MD. Impact of age on PUAL as an indicator of opioid effect in adult subjects. J Clin Monit Comput. 2025 Aug 18.

Mendez NV, Bokoch MP, Adelmann D, Bucknor MD, Ku E, Kolodzie K. Ultrasound-based assessment of muscle mass is associated with early recovery after kidney transplant: a prospective single-center study. BMC Anesthesiol. 2025;25(1):424.

Miaskowski C. History Has Its Eyes on Us. Semin Oncol Nurs. 2025;41(4):151945.

Ostermann M, Forni LG, Joannidis M, Kane-Gill SL, Legrand M, Lumlertgul N, McNicholas B, Meersch M, Monard C, Pickkers P, Prowle J, Rimmelé T, Schneider A, Zarbock A, Kellum JA. State of the art: Renal recovery after AKI - from basic science to clinical practice. Intensive Care Med. 2025;51(8):1490-1507.

Pirracchio R, Fong N, Legrand M. Heterogeneity in the response to a high vs low mean arterial pressure target in patients with septic shock a post hoc analysis of a randomized controlled trial. Intensive Care Med. 2025 Sep 17.

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. Towards individualized deep brain stimulation: A stereoencephalography-based workflow for unbiased neurostimulation target identification. bioRxiv. 2025 Aug 22.

Sanchez PA, Obeidalla S, Kerchberger VE, Moore AR, Maddali MV, Kangelaris KN, Hendrickson CM, Evrard B, Liu KD, Bastarache JA, Matthay MA, Rogers AJ, Calfee CS. Heterogeneity in association of myocardial injury and mortality in sepsis or acute respiratory distress syndrome by subphenotype: a retrospective study. Crit Care. 2025;29(1):363.

Sarma A, Christenson SA, Zha BS, Pisco AO, Neyton LPA, Mick E, Sinha PS, Wilson JG, Moazed F, Leligdowicz A, Maddali MV, Siegel ER, Lyon ZM, Carillo Haller S, Zhuo H, Jauregui A, Ghale R, Caldera S, Serpa PH, Deiss T, Love C, Byrne A, Kalantar KL, DeRisi JL, Erle DJ, Krummel MF, Kangelaris KN, Hendrickson CM, Woodruff PG, Matthay MA, Bos LDJ, Langelier CR, Calfee CS. ARDS Molecular Phenotypes Have Distinct Lower Respiratory Tract Transcriptomes. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Sep 25.

Scott G, Agundiz A, Nelson J, Hetts S, Clancy M, Kim H, Faughnan ME. Assessing racial differences in North American hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia study recruitment and care. Orphanet J Rare Dis. 2025;20(1):461.

Shalabi L, Ibrahim A, Zreigh S, Tawfik AM, Shalabi S, Rifai M, Legrand M. Efficacy and safety of prothrombin complex concentrate versus frozen plasma in cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis. Br J Anaesth. 2025 Sep 05.

Spottiswoode N, Neyton LP, Mick E, Kalantar KL, Hao S, Lydon EC, Narendra R, Serpa PH, Caldera S, Gomez A, Hendrickson C, Kangelaris K, Liu KD, Sinha P, DeRisi JL, Matthay MA, Calfee CS, Langelier CR. Host-Microbe Multiomic Profiling Predicts Mortality in Sepsis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2025 Aug 11.

Stosic MD, Ruben MA, Weaver AE, Blanch-Hartigan D, Sanders JJ, Schwartz R, Jeong S, Lam RX, Hall JA, Duong F, Meyer EC, Waisel D, Blum RH. What Is Clinical Empathy in Anesthesiology? Perspectives From Practicing Anesthesiologists. A A Pract. 2025;19(9):e02045.

Su PP, He L, Zhang L, Yu J, Guan Z. Saphenous-sural nerve injury: a sensory-specific rodent model of neuropathic pain without motor deficits. Pain. 2025 Aug 04.

Tsang C, Nelson J, Vassar R, Ko NU, McCulloch C, Smith ER, Vadivelu S, Akers A, Lee C, Zabramski J, Torbey MT, Awad IA, Kim H. Association of Quality of Life Domains and Clinical Symptoms in Patients With Familial Cerebral Cavernous Malformation. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025;14(17):e035926.

Victoria Liu and Odmara L. Barreto Chang. How Loan Policy Threatens Female and URiM Anesthesiology Trainees. California Society of Anesthesiologists. CSA Online First. August 2025

Xiang X, Wang F, Chen C, Guan Z, Zhou W. Orexinergic projections to substantia innominata mediate arousal and analgesia. Br J Anaesth. 2025;135(3):668-684.

Yap EN, Cumpstey AF. Perioperative cardiac arrest: a rare event worth measuring. Br J Anaesth. 2025 Sep 22.

Yap EN, Wei J, Darling C, Linehan E, Behrends M, Ng KP. Erector Spinae Plane versus Pectoralis Nerve Block for Mastectomy in Cancer Patients: A Retrospective, Multicenter Cohort Study. J Pain Res. 2025;18:4775-4785.

Zeiner S, Kothari RP, Reddy M, Mendez NV, Roll GR, Braun HJ, Bokoch MP, Kolodzie K, Kimberger O, Legrand M, Adelmann D. High BMI at Liver Transplantation: A Retrospective Single-Center Analysis of Blood Product Utilization and Postoperative Outcomes. Am J Transplant. 2025 Aug 27.

Book Chapter

Odmara L. Barreto Chang, Harper S. Kim, and Mervyn Maze. The role of IL-6 Trans-signaling in the pathogenesis of Perioperative Neurocognitive Disorders. Handbook of the Biology and Pathology of Mental Disorders. Page 1643-1669.

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