In Support of Our Community - July 2025

Medical professionals in scrubs and ppe checking on a person in the doorway of a motel room with a pulse oximeter.
July 28, 2025
By Morgen Ahearn

Awards

Tyler Law, MD. International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) Mentored Research Award for, Prediction of Pulse Oximeter Bias Using Machine Learning.

Erica Langnas, MD, MPH. Patricia Sander Research Award, 2025 – 2027. National Variation in Multimodal Analgesia Use and Associated PACU Outcomes for Common Surgeries.

Jina Sinskey, MD. Patricia Sander Research Award, 2025 – 2027. CO-OR: CO-Designing Solutions for Well-Being and Patient Safety in the Operating Room.

CHESA received the following awards:

  • Burroughs Welcome Fund Award. Regulatory research to support continuation of the Open Oximetry Project, including opening a hypoxia lab in Uganda. Many CHESA team members are involved in this project.
  • Hellman Foundation Award. Supporting the CHESA Anesthesia Fellows Program. Drs. Adrian Gelb, Maytinee Lilaonitkul, Odi Ehie, Tyler Law and many others have been very involved in supporting this program.
  • Lifebox Foundation Award. Supporting the continuation of the Open Oximetry Project.

Education and Training

Culture and Belonging-Led Adult Skills Day for Respiratory Care Service Night Shift. July 2025.

Events

Department collaborated with the UCSF United Filipinx Association (UFA) for their Community Celebration, Halo Halo Mixer. June 12, 2025.

In the News

Sydney Labat, MD. Featured on CBS4: From Bay St. Louis to UCSF: Local Doctor’s Fellowship Win Becomes Living Legacy of The 15 White Coats. July 1, 2025.

Meetings and Presentations

Odi Ehie, MD, MAEd, FASA. Speaker. National Medical Association (NMA) Convention and Scientific Assembly. Session 1: What I should have told my younger self. Starting Out, Looking Back. Session 2: The Way Forward. Navigating the Next Chapter.

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Woman with long curly hair wearing glasses while standing at a podium delivering remarks into a microphone.

Mentorship and Pathway Programs

Odi Ehie, MD, MAEd, FASA, Head of Clinical Skills, UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program. URI Summer 2025 Undergraduate Program.

Publications

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 Aug 1;143(2):261-265.

McGowan SK, Gershengorn HB, Sudler A, Espejo E, Boscardin J, Li L, Smith AK, Ashana DC, Raghunathan K, Kim S, Brender T, Vossler K, Han M, Cobert J. Patient Race and Preferred Language Influence the Use of Physical Restraints in Non-intubated ICU Patients. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Jun 20.

Perez-Urbano I, Jowhar ZM, Williams JC, Collins SA, Davis D, Boscardin CK, Cowell T, Benton E, Hauer KE. Student, Staff and Faculty Experience with a Medical School Racial and Sociopolitical Trauma Protocol: A Mixed Methods Study. Teach Learn Med. 2025 Jun-Jul;37(3):375-387.

Shi J, Hubbard AE, Fong N, Pirracchio R. Implicit bias in ICU electronic health record data: measurement frequencies and missing data rates of clinical variables. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2025 Jul 1;25(1):241.