In the News
Chris Abrecht, MD. Featured in “The Science of Pain.” Health Central. March 7, 2025.
Prasad Shirvalkar, MD, PhD. Featured in “What Works for Low Back Pain? Not Much, a New Study Says.” New York Times. March 20, 2025.
Meetings and Presentations
Symposium of the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia (SATA)
Dieter Adelmann, MD, PhD. Moderator. Session 3: Research Session. March 23, 2025.
Dieter Adelmann, MD, PhD. Session 3: Research Session. SATA Transplant Anesthesia Databases. Liver. March 23, 2025.
International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) – Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) Annual Meeting
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MS. Moderator. Ticketed Pre-Meeting Conference: International Clinical Trials: Lessons Learned.
Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MS. Moderator. Ticketed Pre-Meeting Conference: International Clinical Trials: Trial Connection & Mentorship Session.
Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MS. Moderator. Ticketed Pre-Meeting Conference: International Clinical Trials: International Trial Results Session and Conclusion.
Friday, March 21, 2025
Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MS. Speaker – Workshop. Ticketed Workshop: A&A Journal Club: How to Read and to Apply Various Types of Papers.
Rachel Schwartz, PhD. Poster Session A. Supporting the Unique Challenges of Anesthesiologist Physician-Scientists: Mentoring Strategies & Structural Innovations.
Dieter Adelmann, MD, PhD. Speaker. Past, Present, and Future of Kidney Transplants. Variations in Intraoperative Care During Renal Transplantation.
Albert Yen, MD. Striving for Sustainable Practice Models in Critical Care. Doomscrolling the Literature: The Science of Shiftwork, Burnout, and the Relational Impact of ICU Work.
Colin Jenkins, MD, Sivan Marcus, MD, Albert Yen, MD. e-Poster Session. Acute Management of Left Ventricular and Systemic Arterial Air Embolism After CT-Guided Lung Biopsy.
Odi Ehie, MD, Nicholas Fong, MD, Matthew Wixon, MD, Travis Reece-Nguyen, MD, MPH, Leah Pimentel, MBA. e-Poster Session. Building Bridges: Evaluating the Impact of an Allyship Workshop on Leadership in Anesthesia.
Jina Sinskey, MD, Rachel Schwartz, PhD. e-Poster Session. Improving the Well-being and Retention of Biomedical Research Trainees: Insights from T32 Program Leadership.
Akash Shanmugam BS, Christopher Abrecht MD, Zhonghui Guan MD, Andrew Bishara MD. e-Poster Session. Leveraging a Targeted LLM Approach for Understanding Predictors of Post-Surgical Pain from Clinical Text.
Austin Burrows MD, Arjun Johal MD, Kaveh Hemati MD. e-Poster Session. Regional anesthesia to avoid high-risk induction in a critically ill patient requiring left upper extremity trans-radial forearm amputation for source control.
Siddharth Dave, MD, Kunal Karamchandani, MD, Ashish Khanna, MD, Matthieu Legrand, MD, PhD, Amanda Fox. e-Poster Session. Vasopressor Outcomes in Spine Surgery (V-SPINE) Trial.
Sakura Kinjo, MD. Poster Session B. Pain Medicine.
Fengyun Xu, PhD. Poster Session B. Role of TLR2 in Staphylococcus Aureus Invasion and Clearance in Mice and Cultured Primary Endothelial Cells.
Danielle Williamson, MD. Poster Session B. Too little oxygen, too much oxygen: Are mitochondrial peptides the answer?
Tyler Law, MD. Speaker. A&A Editorial Awards. The Global Anesthesia Workforce Survey: Updates and Trends in the Anesthesia Workforce.
Michael Gropper, MD, PhD. Ticketed Networking Event: Scholars' Day Mentor/Mentee Reception.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MS. Speaker. Ticketed Event: Scholars' Day Panel: The Nuts and Bolts of Starting a Research Program – Lessons from Across the Continuum.
Justine Tang, MD. Mini Oral Abstract Session C - Critical Care. Gliflozins and Outcomes of AdulTs with Sepsis (GOATS): A multicenter retrospective cohort study among veterans.
Anne Donovan, MD. Poster Session C. The LAADIES Project: Career Advancement for Women Faculty Members in Academic Anesthesiology.
Roshan Nayak, MD. Poster Session C. Association between place of service, anesthesia care, and complications among Medicare Advantage and commercially insured beneficiaries undergoing cataract surgery.
Cindy Zhuang. Poster Session C. Intranasal inoculation of Staphylococcus aureus induces bacterial colonization of solid organs but not blood in a mouse sepsis model.
Odmara Barreto Chang, MD, PhD. Speaker. Ticketed Workshop: The Safe Brain Initiative's EEG Bootcamp.
Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MS. Poster Session D. Perioperative Anesthesia.
Sakura Kinjo, MD. Poster Session D. Pain Medicine.
Nicholas Mendez, MD. Poster Session D. Acute Kidney Injury within 72 hours of Liver Transplant is associated with Renal Failure at One Year Post-Transplant.
Elena Haight, MD. Poster Session D. A case of sphenopalatine artery pseudoaneurysm formation causing massive epistaxis following Le Fort I and bilateral split sagittal osteotomy procedure.
Kevin Martin, MD. Poster Session D. Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity from Rectus Sheath Catheters Treated with Maximum Dose Intralipid Therapy in a Critically Ill Post-Hepatectomy Patient.
Daniel Zagunis, MD. Poster Session D. A Case of Acute Limb Ischemia due to presumed Paradoxical Embolism.
Elizabeth Whitlock, MD, MS. Speaker. Ticketed Workshop: Writing Your Manuscript for A&A: What Do Our Editors Expect?
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Nicholas Fong, MD. Kosaka Best Abstracts Session. Trends in Volatile Anesthetic Use and its Effect on Global Warming Potential: A Multicenter Observational Analysis between 2018 and 2023.
Sakura Kinjo, MD. Speaker. Ticketed PBLD: Perioperative Pain Management for the Patient with Opioid Use Disorder Treatment.
Matthieu Legrand, MD, PhD. Poster Session E. Critical Care.
Anne Donovan, MD. Poster Session E.
Sivan Marcus, MD. Poster Session E. RV Failure from Pulmonary Tumor Thrombotic Microangiopathy: A Medically Challenging Case.
Taylor Hall. Poster Session E. Association Between Social Vulnerability Index and Receipt of Cataract Surgery in Medicare Beneficiaries.
Rachel Schwartz, PhD. Poster Session E. The Painpoint Elimination Bringing Better Longitudinal Engagement & Satisfaction (PEBBLES) PROJECT: An institutional approach to enhance clinician agency and well-being.
Justine Tang. Poster Session E. Heterogeneity of treatment effect in Renin-angiotensin system inhibitors management strategy based on pre-operative cardiovascular risk stratification: an ancillary study of the STOP-or-NOT trial.
Nicholas Mendez, MD. Poster Session E. Supporting Anesthesiologist Well-Being through Two-Way Communication and Stakeholder Engagement.
Nicholas Fong, MD. Poster Session E.
Mentorship and Pipeline
Leah Pimentel, MBA. SF Business Times Mentor Monday. March 2025.
Publications
Brender TD, Celi LA, Cobert JM. Clinical Notes as Narratives: Implications for Large Language Models in Healthcare. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Feb;40(3):687-689.
Dhir A, Bhardwaj N, Malik MA, Mathew PJ. Plethysmography variability index guided fluid management is superior to conventional approach for elective urological surgery in children - a prospective randomised controlled trial. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2024 Dec 1;41(12):932-934.
Fernandez-Bustamante A, Parker RA, Frendl G, Lee JW, Nagrebetsky A, Grecu L, Amar D, Tanaka P, Sprung J, Gupta RA, Subramanian B, Giquel J, Eikermann M, Musch G, Nadler JW, Gama de Abreu M, Bartels K, Grover M, Chen LL, Sparling J, Douin DJ, Weingarten T, Wagener G, Thompson BT, Vidal Melo MF; Perioperative Research Network (PRN) Investigators. Perioperative lung expansion and pulmonary outcomes after open abdominal surgery versus usual care in the USA (PRIME-AIR): a multicentre, randomised, controlled, phase 3 trial.Lancet Respir Med. 2025 Feb 24:S2213-2600(25)00040-2.
Garcia B, Khanna AK, Legrand M. Advancing surgical outcomes through cardiovascular biomarker sub-phenotyping. Br J Anaesth.2025 Mar 14:S0007-0912(25)00105-9.
Joo H, Avelino-Silva TJ, Diaz-Ramirez LG, Lee SJ, Whitlock EL. Delirium risk profiles in a population-based study of United States older adults undergoing common noncardiac surgeries.J Am Geriatr Soc. 2025 Mar;73(3):867-873.
Kalimouttou A, Kennedy JN, Feng J, Singh H, Saria S, Angus DC, Seymour CW, Pirracchio R. Optimal Vasopressin Initiation in Septic Shock: The OVISS Reinforcement Learning Study. JAMA. 2025Mar 18:e253046.
Lacom C, Kothari RP, Mendez NV, Galli A, Roll GR, Bokoch MP, Legrand M, Adelmann D. Safety and Feasibility of Early Extubation in Liver Transplantation: Experience in 1555 Patients. Transplantation. 2025 Feb 14.
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. bioRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Mar 6:2025.02.28.640567.
Lipnick MS, Chen D, Law T, Moore K Jr, 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.medRxiv [Preprint]. 2025 Feb 25:2025.02.21.25322707.
McIsaac DI, Mathis MR, London MJ. Advanced Hemodynamic Monitoring: Are We Asking the Right Questions? Anesthesiology. 2025 Apr 1;142(4):593-596.
Mishra A, Ashok V, Puri GD, Kumar N, Mathew PJ. A novel cricoid pressure sensor device enhances the efficacy of oesophageal occlusion during Sellick's manoeuvre: A randomised controlled trial. Eur J Anaesthesiol. 2025 Mar 1;42(3):265-274.
Nicholas JA, Ural KG, Guinn NR, Panigrahi AK, Tan GM, Butwick AJ. Procedure-Specific Preoperative Blood Ordering Practices in 25 North American Hospitals. A A Pract. 2025 Mar 20;19(3):e01939.
Ochocinski D, Navaratnam M, Babb A, De Souza E, Kamra K, Sleasman JR, Margetson TD, Bhamidipati JK, Ramamoorthy C, Schmidt AR. Comparison of the Point-Of-Care Coagulation Device Quantra With the TEG-5000 for Congenital Cardiac Surgery-A Pilot Study.Paediatr Anaesth. 2025 Mar 17.
Saynhalath R, Sanford EL, Kato MA, Staffa SJ, Zurakowski D, Meier PM, Alex GA, Fuller CL, Rossmann Beel EN, Chhabada S, Poppino KF, Szmuk P, Matava CT, Efune PN; Pediatric Anesthesia COVID-19 Collaborative (includes: Ferschl M, Chang D, Infosino A.) Multicentre analysis of severe perioperative adverse events in children undergoing surgery who were infected with SARS-CoV-2: a propensity score-adjusted analysis.Br J Anaesth. 2025 Feb;134(2):441-452.
Stockert E, Siadat S, Bateman BT, Martinez E, Butwick AJ, Leonard SA. Trends in Neuraxial Labor Analgesia Utilization by Race and Ethnicity among Nulliparous Individuals Undergoing Spontaneous Vaginal Delivery, United States, 2007 to 2022. Anesthesiology. 2025 Feb 1;142(2):409-411.
Wadhwa M,Sall JW, Chinn GA. Neonatal Diazepam Exposure Decreases Dendritic Arborization and Spine Density of Cortical Pyramidal Neurons in Rats.J Neurosurg Anesthesiol. 2025 Apr 1;37(2):225-231.
