Role Faculty Location UCSF at Mount Zion UCSF at Parnassus Category Clinical Specialties Liver Transplant Education Residency, 2001 - Anesthesia, University of California, San FranciscoInternship, 1998 - Medicine, Boise VA Medical Center, IdahoResearch Fellowship, 1997 - Anesthesia, University of California, San FranciscoResidency, 1995 - Anesthesia, University of Cologne, GermanyM.D., 1993 - School of Medicine, University of Bonn, Germany Publications Chemotherapy for pain: reversing inflammatory and neuropathic pain with the anticancer agent mithramycin A. Xu Z, Lee MC, Sheehan K, Fujii K, Rabl K, Rader G, Varney S, Sharma M, Eilers H, Kober K, Miaskowski C, Levine JD, Schumacher MA Pain . Jun 27, 2023 Information Asymmetry in Hospitals: Evidence of the Lack of Cost Awareness in Clinicians. Fabes J, Avsar TS, Spiro J, Fernandez T, Eilers H, Evans S, Hessheimer A, Lorgelly P, Spiro M, Health Economics Survey Group Applied health economics and health policy . May 24, 2022 Transcription factor Sp4 is required for hyperalgesic state persistence. Sheehan K, Lee J, Chong J, Zavala K, Sharma M, Philipsen S, Maruyama T, Xu Z, Guan Z, Eilers H, Kawamata T, Schumacher M PloS one . Feb 27, 2019 Increased Cytokines at High Altitude: Lack of Effect of Ibuprofen on Acute Mountain Sickness, Physiological Variables, or Cytokine Levels. Lundeberg J, Feiner JR, Schober A, Sall JW, Eilers H, Bickler PE High altitude medicine & biology . Jun 20, 2018 Advances in anesthesia and critical care. Eilers H Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society . Nov 1, 2016 [Nephroprotection--anaesthetic management of renal transplantation]. Smul TM, Eilers H, Stumpner J Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS . Sep 16, 2015 The anticancer antibiotic mithramycin-A inhibits TRPV1 expression in dorsal root ganglion neurons. Zavala K, Lee J, Chong J, Sharma M, Eilers H, Schumacher MA Neuroscience letters . Jan 25, 2014 Intraoperative care of the transplant patient. Spiro MD, Eilers H Anesthesiology clinics . Nov 6, 2013 Accuracy of carboxyhemoglobin detection by pulse CO-oximetry during hypoxemia. Feiner JR, Rollins MD, Sall JW, Eilers H, Au P, Bickler PE Anesthesia and analgesia . Mar 11, 2013 N-glycosylation determines ionic permeability and desensitization of the TRPV1 capsaicin receptor. Veldhuis NA, Lew MJ, Abogadie FC, Poole DP, Jennings EA, Ivanusic JJ, Eilers H, Bunnett NW, McIntyre P The Journal of biological chemistry . May 8, 2012 Liver transplantation for giant hepatic angiomyolipoma. Vagefi PA, Eilers H, Hiniker A, Freise CE Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society . Aug 1, 2011 Transcription factors Sp1 and Sp4 regulate TRPV1 gene expression in rat sensory neurons. Chu C, Zavala K, Fahimi A, Lee J, Xue Q, Eilers H, Schumacher MA Molecular pain . Jun 6, 2011 Chapter 9 Intravenous Anesthetics. Helge Eilers Basics of Anesthesia . Jan 1, 2011 Chronic kidney disease: implications for the perioperative period. Eilers H, Liu KD, Gruber A, Niemann CU Minerva anestesiologica . Jun 28, 2010 Emergent orthotopic liver transplantation for hemorrhage from a giant cavernous hepatic hemangioma: case report and review. Vagefi PA, Klein I, Gelb B, Hameed B, Moff SL, Simko JP, Fix OK, Eilers H, Feiner JR, Ascher NL, Freise CE, Bass NM Journal of gastrointestinal surgery : official journal of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract . Jun 12, 2010 Anaphylaxis complicating graft reperfusion during orthotopic liver transplantation: a case report. Anderson A, Eilers H, Yost CS Transplantation proceedings . Jun 1, 2010 Pungent general anesthetics activate transient receptor potential-A1 to produce hyperalgesia and neurogenic bronchoconstriction. Eilers H, Cattaruzza F, Nassini R, Materazzi S, Andre E, Chu C, Cottrell GS, Schumacher M, Geppetti P, Bunnett NW Anesthesiology . Jun 1, 2010 TRPV1 splice variants: structure and function. Schumacher MA, Eilers H Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) . Jun 1, 2010 Abdominal organ transplantation. Niemann CU, Eilers H Minerva anestesiologica . Nov 24, 2009 The effect of ketamine and nitrous oxide on the human pupillary light reflex during general anesthesia. Eilers H, Larson MD Autonomic neuroscience : basic & clinical . Nov 11, 2009 Increasing the duration of isoflurane anesthesia decreases the minimum alveolar anesthetic concentration in 7-day-old but not in 60-day-old rats. Stratmann G, Sall JW, Eger EI, Laster MJ, Bell JS, May LD, Eilers H, Krause M, Heusen Fv, Gonzalez HE Anesthesia and analgesia . Sep 1, 2009 Anesthetic activation of nociceptors: adding insult to injury? Eilers H Molecular interventions . Oct 1, 2008 The rat vanilloid receptor splice variant VR.5'sv blocks TRPV1 activation. Eilers H, Lee SY, Hau CW, Logvinova A, Schumacher MA Neuroreport . Jul 2, 2007 Central venous pressure monitoring during living right donor hepatectomy. Niemann CU, Feiner J, Behrends M, Eilers H, Ascher NL, Roberts JP Liver transplantation : official publication of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society . Feb 1, 2007 Recombinant factor VIIa reduces transfusion requirements in liver transplant patients with high MELD scores. Niemann CU, Behrends M, Quan D, Eilers H, Gropper MA, Roberts JP, Hirose R Transfusion medicine (Oxford, England) . Apr 1, 2006 Isolation of an mRNA binding protein homologue that is expressed in nociceptors. Eilers H, Trilk SL, Lee SY, Xue Q, Jong BE, Moff I, Levine JD, Schumacher MA The European journal of neuroscience . Nov 1, 2004 Opioid-induced respiratory depression: are 5-HT4a receptor agonists the cure? Eilers H, Schumacher MA Molecular interventions . Aug 1, 2004 Clinically important drug interactions with intravenous anaesthetics in older patients. Eilers H, Niemann C Drugs & aging . Jan 1, 2003 The reversal of fentanyl-induced tolerance by administration of "small-dose" ketamine. Eilers H, Philip LA, Bickler PE, McKay WR, Schumacher MA Anesthesia and analgesia . Jul 1, 2001 Different Effects of Volatile Anesthetics and Polyhalogenated Alkanes on Depolarization-Evoked Glutamate Release in Rat Cortical Brain Slices. Helge Eilers, Christoph H. Kindler, Philip E. Bickler Anesthesia & Analgesia . May 1, 1999 Different effects of volatile anesthetics and polyhalogenated alkanes on depolarization-evoked glutamate release in rat cortical brain slices. Eilers H, Kindler CH, Bickler PE Anesthesia and analgesia . May 1, 1999 Volatile anesthetics increase intracellular calcium in cerebrocortical and hippocampal neurons. Kindler CH, Eilers H, Donohoe P, Ozer S, Bickler PE Anesthesiology . Apr 1, 1999 Functional deactivation of the major neuronal nicotinic receptor caused by nicotine and a protein kinase C-dependent mechanism. Eilers H, Schaeffer E, Bickler PE, Forsayeth JR Molecular pharmacology . Dec 1, 1997 Hypothermia and isoflurane similarly inhibit glutamate release evoked by chemical anoxia in rat cortical brain slices. Eilers H, Bickler PE Anesthesiology . Sep 1, 1996