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
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