Jonathan Pan, PhD, MD

Associate Professor of Anesthesia
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Publications: 
Chou A, Torres-Espin A, Kyritsis N, Huie JR, Khatry S, Funk J, Hay J, Lofgreen A, Shah R, McCann C, Pascual LU, Amorim E, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, Dhall SS, Pan JZ, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Whetstone WD, Ferguson AR, TRACK-SCI Investigators. Correction: Expert-augmented automated machine learning optimizes hemodynamic predictors of spinal cord injury outcome. PLoS One. 2023; 18(11):e0294081.
Winward Choy, Nikolaos Kyritsis, Xuan Duong Fernandez, Adam Ferguson, Debra P. Hemmerle, Lisa U. Pascual, Vineeta Singh, Jason Talbott, Jonathan Pan, Abel Torres, William Whetstone, J. Russell Huie, Kenneth Fond, Anastasia Keller, Jacqueline Bresnahan, Michael Beattie, Anthony Michael DiGiorgio, Sanjay S. Dhall, Rajiv Saigal. 188 American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) Impairment Scale (AIS) Conversion Underestimates Neurological Recovery Following Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury. Neurosurgery. 2023 Apr 1; 69(Supplement_1):29-29.
Agarwal N, Blitstein J, Lui A, Torres-Espin A, Vasnarungruengkul C, Burke J, Mummaneni PV, Dhall SS, Weinstein PR, Duong-Fernandez X, Chou A, Pan J, Singh V, Ferguson AR, Hemmerle DD, Kyritsis N, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Manley GT, DiGiorgio A. Hypotension requiring vasopressor treatment and increased cardiac complications in elderly spinal cord injury patients: a prospective TRACK-SCI registry study. J Neurosurg Spine. 2023 Mar 17; 1-9.
Xiaodi Chen, Shadi Nawaf Malaeb, Jonathan Pan, Laishuan Wang, Joseph Scafidi. Editorial: Perinatal hypoxic-ischemic brain injury: Mechanisms, pathogenesis, and potential therapeutic strategies. Front Cell Neurosci. 2022 Dec 13;16:1086692. PMID: 36582212. 2022.
Chou A, Torres-Espin A, Kyritsis N, Huie JR, Khatry S, Funk J, Hay J, Lofgreen A, Shah R, McCann C, Pascual LU, Amorim E, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, Dhall SS, Pan JZ, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Whetstone WD, Ferguson AR, TRACK-SCI Investigators. Expert-augmented automated machine learning optimizes hemodynamic predictors of spinal cord injury outcome. PLoS One. 2022; 17(4):e0265254.
Agarwal N, Aabedi AA, Torres-Espin A, Chou A, Wozny TA, Mummaneni PV, Burke JF, Ferguson AR, Kyritsis N, Dhall SS, Weinstein PR, Duong-Fernandez X, Pan J, Singh V, Hemmerle DD, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Bresnahan JC, Manley GT, Beattie MS, DiGiorgio AM. Decision tree-based machine learning analysis of intraoperative vasopressor use to optimize neurological improvement in acute spinal cord injury. Neurosurg Focus. 2022 04; 52(4):E9.
Torres-Espín A, Haefeli J, Ehsanian R, Torres D, Almeida CA, Huie JR, Chou A, Morozov D, Sanderson N, Dirlikov B, Suen CG, Nielson JL, Kyritsis N, Hemmerle DD, Talbott JF, Manley GT, Dhall SS, Whetstone WD, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, McKenna SL, Pan JZ, Ferguson AR, TRACK-SCI Investigators. Topological network analysis of patient similarity for precision management of acute blood pressure in spinal cord injury. Elife. 2021 11 16; 10.
Kyritsis N, Torres-Espín A, Schupp PG, Huie JR, Chou A, Duong-Fernandez X, Thomas LH, Tsolinas RE, Hemmerle DD, Pascual LU, Singh V, Pan JZ, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Burke JF, DiGiorgio AM, Weinstein PR, Manley GT, Dhall SS, Ferguson AR, Oldham MC, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS. Diagnostic blood RNA profiles for human acute spinal cord injury. J Exp Med. 2021 03 01; 218(3).
Mummaneni N, Burke JF, DiGiorgio AM, Thomas LH, Duong-Fernandez X, Harris M, Pascual LU, Ferguson AR, Russell Huie J, Pan JZ, Hemmerle DD, Singh V, Torres-Espin A, Omondi C, Kyritsis N, Weinstein PR, Whetstone WD, Manley GT, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Cohen-Adad J, Dhall SS, Talbott JF. Injury volume extracted from MRI predicts neurologic outcome in acute spinal cord injury: A prospective TRACK-SCI pilot study. J Clin Neurosci. 2020 Dec; 82(Pt B):231-236.
Li R, Lai IK, Pan JZ, Zhang P, Maze M. Dexmedetomidine Exerts an Anti-inflammatory Effect via α2 Adrenoceptors to Prevent Lipopolysaccharide-induced Cognitive Decline in Mice. Anesthesiology. 2020 08; 133(2):393-407.
Tsolinas RE, Burke JF, DiGiorgio AM, Thomas LH, Duong-Fernandez X, Harris MH, Yue JK, Winkler EA, Suen CG, Pascual LU, Ferguson AR, Huie JR, Pan JZ, Hemmerle DD, Singh V, Torres-Espin A, Omondi C, Kyritsis N, Haefeli J, Weinstein PR, de Almeida Neto CA, Kuo YH, Taggard D, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Manley GT, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Dhall SS. Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Spinal Cord Injury (TRACK-SCI): an overview of initial enrollment and demographics. Neurosurg Focus. 2020 05 01; 48(5):E6.
Gao J, Sun Z, Xiao Z, Du Q, Niu X, Wang G, Chang YW, Sun Y, Sun W, Lin A, Bresnahan JC, Maze M, Beattie MS, Pan JZ. Dexmedetomidine modulates neuroinflammation and improves outcome via alpha2-adrenergic receptor signaling after rat spinal cord injury. Br J Anaesth. 2019 12; 123(6):827-838.
Jonathan Z. Pan, Lingzhong Meng. Traumatic Brain Injury: Risk Assessment and Perioperative Management. . 2019 Sep 28; 67-75.
Yue JK, Hemmerle DD, Winkler EA, Thomas LH, Fernandez XD, Kyritsis N, Pan JZ, Pascual LU, Singh V, Weinstein PR, Talbott JF, Huie JR, Ferguson AR, Whetstone WD, Manley GT, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC, Mummaneni PV, Dhall SS. Clinical Implementation of Novel Spinal Cord Perfusion Pressure Protocol in Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury at U.S. Level I Trauma Center: TRACK-SCI Study. World Neurosurg. 2020 Jan; 133:e391-e396.
Burke JF, Yue JK, Ngwenya LB, Winkler EA, Talbott JF, Pan JZ, Ferguson AR, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC, Haefeli J, Whetstone WD, Suen CG, Huang MC, Manley GT, Tarapore PE, Dhall SS. In Reply: Ultra-Early (<12 Hours) Surgery Correlates With Higher Rate of American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale Conversion After Cervical Spinal Cord Injury. Neurosurgery. 2019 08 01; 85(2):E401-E402.
Burke JF, Yue JK, Ngwenya LB, Winkler EA, Talbott JF, Pan JZ, Ferguson AR, Beattie MS, Bresnahan JC, Haefeli J, Whetstone WD, Suen CG, Huang MC, Manley GT, Tarapore PE, Dhall SS. Ultra-Early (<12 Hours) Surgery Correlates With Higher Rate of American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale Conversion After Cervical Spinal Cord Injury. Neurosurgery. 2019 08 01; 85(2):199-203.
Dhall SS, Haefeli J, Talbott JF, Ferguson AR, Readdy WJ, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Pan JZ, Manley GT, Whetstone WD. Motor Evoked Potentials Correlate With Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Early Recovery After Acute Spinal Cord Injury. Neurosurgery. 2018 06 01; 82(6):870-876.
Pan JZ. Genomics and Proteomic Techniques. Methods Enzymol. 2018; 603:221-235.
Pan JZ, Eckenhoff RG. Between a ROCK and an IR Place. Anesth Analg. 2018 03; 126(3):750-751.
Readdy WJ, Saigal R, Whetstone WD, Mefford AN, Ferguson AR, Talbott JF, Inoue T, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Pan J, Manley GT, Dhall SS. Failure of Mean Arterial Pressure Goals to Improve Outcomes Following Penetrating Spinal Cord Injury. Neurosurgery. 2016 Nov; 79(5):708-714.
Nicole Jackman, Jonathan Z. Pan. Anesthesia for Electroconvulsive Therapy. . 2016 Sep 30; 249-259.
Catapano JS, John Hawryluk GW, Whetstone W, Saigal R, Ferguson A, Talbott J, Bresnahan J, Dhall S, Pan J, Beattie M, Manley G. Higher Mean Arterial Pressure Values Correlate with Neurologic Improvement in Patients with Initially Complete Spinal Cord Injuries. World Neurosurg. 2016 Dec; 96:72-79.
Burke JF, Yue JK, Ngwenya LB, Winkler EA, Talbott J, Pan J, Ferguson A, Beattie M, Bresnahan J, Haefeli J, Whetstone W, Suen C, Huang MC, Manley GT, Tarapore PE, Dhall SS. 182 Ultra-Early (<12 Hours) Decompression Improves Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury Compared to Early (12-24 Hours) Decompression. Neurosurgery. 2016 Aug; 63 Suppl 1:172.
Readdy WJ, Saigal R, Whetstone WD, Mefford A, Ferguson AR, Talbott JF, Inoue T, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Pan J, Manley GT, Dhall SS. Failure of Mean Arterial Pressure Goals to Improve Outcomes Following Penetrating Spinal Cord Injury. Neurosurgery. 2016 May 03.
Yang N, Yue Y, Pan JZ, Zuo MZ, Shi Y, Zhou SZ, Peng WP, Gao JD. Changes in the Bispectral Index in Response to Loss of Consciousness and No Somatic Movement to Nociceptive Stimuli in Elderly Patients. Chin Med J (Engl). 2016 Feb 20; 129(4):410-6.
Mabray MC, Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Dhall SS, Phillips DB, Pan JZ, Manley GT, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Haefeli J, Ferguson AR. Multidimensional Analysis of Magnetic Resonance Imaging Predicts Early Impairment in Thoracic and Thoracolumbar Spinal Cord Injury. J Neurotrauma. 2016 05 15; 33(10):954-62.
Hawryluk G, Whetstone W, Saigal R, Ferguson A, Talbott J, Bresnahan J, Dhall S, Pan J, Beattie M, Manley G. Mean Arterial Blood Pressure Correlates with Neurological Recovery after Human Spinal Cord Injury: Analysis of High Frequency Physiologic Data. J Neurotrauma. 2015 Dec 15; 32(24):1958-67.
Readdy WJ, Whetstone WD, Ferguson AR, Talbott JF, Inoue T, Saigal R, Bresnahan JC, Beattie MS, Pan JZ, Manley GT, Dhall SS. Complications and outcomes of vasopressor usage in acute traumatic central cord syndrome. J Neurosurg Spine. 2015 Nov; 23(5):574-580.
Talbott JF, Whetstone WD, Readdy WJ, Ferguson AR, Bresnahan JC, Saigal R, Hawryluk GW, Beattie MS, Mabray MC, Pan JZ, Manley GT, Dhall SS. The Brain and Spinal Injury Center score: a novel, simple, and reproducible method for assessing the severity of acute cervical spinal cord injury with axial T2-weighted MRI findings. J Neurosurg Spine. 2015 Oct; 23(4):495-504.
Ye X, Lian Q, Eckenhoff MF, Eckenhoff RG, Pan JZ. Differential general anesthetic effects on microglial cytokine expression. PLoS One. 2013; 8(1):e52887.
Pan JZ, Xi J, Eckenhoff MF, Eckenhoff RG. Inhaled anesthetics elicit region-specific changes in protein expression in mammalian brain. Proteomics. 2008 Jul; 8(14):2983-92.
Pan JZ, Eckenhoff RG, Eckenhoff MF. Limitations of microarray studies. Anesth Analg. 2007 May; 104(5):1300-1; author reply 1301-2.
Pan JZ, Xi J, Tobias JW, Eckenhoff MF, Eckenhoff RG. Halothane binding proteome in human brain cortex. J Proteome Res. 2007 Feb; 6(2):582-92.
Pan JZ, Wei H, Hecker JG, Tobias JW, Eckenhoff RG, Eckenhoff MF. Rat brain DNA transcript profile of halothane and isoflurane exposure. Pharmacogenet Genomics. 2006 Mar; 16(3):171-82.
Pan JZ, Jörnsten R, Hart RP. Screening anti-inflammatory compounds in injured spinal cord with microarrays: a comparison of bioinformatics analysis approaches. Physiol Genomics. 2004 Apr 13; 17(2):201-14.
Pan JZ, Ni L, Sodhi A, Aguanno A, Young W, Hart RP. Cytokine activity contributes to induction of inflammatory cytokine mRNAs in spinal cord following contusion. J Neurosci Res. 2002 May 01; 68(3):315-22.
Jones TB, Basso DM, Sodhi A, Pan JZ, Hart RP, MacCallum RC, Lee S, Whitacre CC, Popovich PG. Pathological CNS autoimmune disease triggered by traumatic spinal cord injury: implications for autoimmune vaccine therapy. J Neurosci. 2002 Apr 01; 22(7):2690-700.
Honors and Awards: 
John Severinghaus Assistant Professor, Anesthesia, UCSF, 2014-2016