Farewell to Our Recent Retirees

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)