Farewell to Our Recent Retirees

View of Parnassus and Stanyan from CPMC
August 5, 2022
By Morgen Ahearn

Farewell to our recent group of faculty retirees, all of whom have had an enormous impact on our department and the anesthesiology specialty. Please join us in thanking and congratulating these outstanding faculty on their extraordinary careers. We wish them all the best in their next endeavors!

Neal Cohen, MD, MPH

Medical School

UCSF (1971)

Residency

UCSF Anesthesia (1972 – 1975)

Fellowship

UCSF Critical Care Medicine, 1978

Years as Full-Time Faculty

1976 – 2020

Honors, Awards, Appointments

  • William K. Hamilton Award for Excellence in Teaching (1980)
  • Director of Critical Care, Moffitt, 1983
  • Director, Respiratory Therapy, Moffitt, 1983
  • President of Medical Staff, UCSF Medical Center, 1994 – 1996
  • Vice Dean, UCSF, 2000
  • Chair for the ASA Section on Professional Practice 2015
  • Overseeing the Following ASA Committees:
  • Committee on Economics
  • Committee on Academic Affairs
  • Committee on Governmental Affairs
  • Committee on Health Policy Research
  • Committee on Large Group Practice
  • Committee on Practice Management
  • Committee on Rural Access to Anesthesia
  • Member, Practice Expense Subcommittee of the AMA Relative Value Update Committee, 2015
  • Co-Chair, ABA Critical Care Examination Committee, 2015
  • Reelected Chairman of the Board for El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, 2016
  • Chair, Newly created ASA Committee on Health and Public Policy, 2016
  • Chair, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Section on Professional Practice, 2016
  • Chair, Critical Care Medicine Examination Committee, American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA), 2016

 

James Ramsay, MD

Medical School

University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada

Residency

McGill University in Montreal, Canada

Fellowship

Research Fellowship at Oxford University, United Kingdom

Years as Full-Time Faculty

2013 – 2020

Honors, Awards, Appointments

  • President, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists
  • Trustee, International Anesthesia Research Society
  • ACGME’s Anesthesiology Residency Review Committee
  • FDA advisory panel on anesthetic and analgesic drugs

 

C. Spencer Yost, MD

Medical School

UCSF

Residency

Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (1983 – 1986)

Fellowship

Presbyterian Hospital, University of Pittsburgh, Critical Care Medicine, 1987

Years as Full-Time Faculty

1987 – 2022

Honors, Awards, Appointments

  • Director, Mount Zion ICU (2005)
  • Vice Chair, Clinical Planning and Strategy (2012)

 

Scott Schulman, MD

Medical School

George Washington University School of Medicine

Residencies

Pediatrics, UCLA; Anesthesiology, UCLA

Years as Full-Time Faculty

2014 - 2020

 

Errol Lobo, MD, PhD

Medical School

UCSF (1988)

Residency

UCSF Anesthesia (1989 – 1992)

Fellowship

Robert Wood Johnson Fellow

Years as Full-Time Faculty

1992 - 2021

Honors, Awards, Appointments

  • UCSF Martin Luther King, Jr, Award, 1987
  • Director, Vascular Anesthesia, 2002
  • Vice Chair, Clinical Operations, 2009
  • Medical Director, Perioperative Services, UCSF Medical Center, 2012
  • President, UCSF Medical Staff
  • Chair, Anesthesia, Cedars Sinai, 2021

 

Claus Niemann, MD

Medical School

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

Residency

UCSF Anesthesia (1998)

Fellowship

Liver Transplant Anesthesia / Research, 1999 - 2000

Years as Full-Time Faculty

2001 - 2022

Honors, Awards, Appointments

  • Severinghaus Fellowship Recipient, 2002 – 2003
  • Director, Liver Transplant Anesthesia Fellowship

 

A. Sue Carlisle, PhD, MD

Medical School

University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Residencies

Internal Medicine, UCSF

Anesthesia, UCSF (1990)

Fellowship

Critical Care Medicine, UCSF

Years as Full-Time Faculty

1991 - 2022

Honors, Awards, Appointments

  • Chief Resident, UCSF Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, 1990
  • Stuart C. Cullen Award for Excellence During Anesthesia Residency (1990)
  • Chief of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) (1999 – 2006)
  • Interim Associate Dean for UCSF at SFGH (2003) (becoming permanent in 2004),
  • Associate Dean for UCSF at SFGH (2004)
  • Vice Dean for UCSF at SFGH (2012)

 

Jens Krombach, MD

Medical School

University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Residency

Anesthesiology / Intensive Care, Orthopedic University Hospital, Frankfurt, Wiesbaden Municipal Hospital, University Hospital of Cologne

Years as Full-Time Faculty

2002 – 2022

Honors, Awards, Appointments

  • Director, Clinical Anesthesia, SFGH (2005)
  • Perioperative Director, SFGH (2008)

 

Kathryn Rouine-Rapp, MD

Medical School

Oregon Health Sciences University

Residency

UCSF Anesthesia (1987 – 1990)

Fellowship

Transesophageal Echocardiography and Pedi/Adult Cardiac Anesthesia (1991 – 1992)

Years as Full-Time Faculty

1991 - 2012, 2013 – 2022

Honors, Awards, Appointments

  • William K. Hamilton Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000)
  • Director, Prepare Clinic (2005)
  • Member, Exam Writing Committee, National Board of Echocardiography (2007)
  • Interim Director, Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia (2019 – 2021)

 

John Feiner, MD

Medical School

UCSD

Residency

UCSF Anesthesia (1988 - 1991)

Fellowship

UCSF Anesthesia (1992 – 1993)

Years as Full-Time Faculty

1991 - 2022

Honors, Awards, Appointments

  • Stuart C. Cullen Award for Excellence During Residency (1991)
  • Director, Liver Transplantation Anesthesia (2000)

 

Dorre Nicholau, MD, PhD

Medical School

UCSF

Residency

UCSF Anesthesia (1986 - 1990)

Fellowship

UCSF Critical Care Medicine (1990 – 1991)

Years as Full-Time Faculty

1991 - 2022

Honors, Awards, Appointments

  • Director PACU (2000)
  • Vice Chair, Wellbeing