Emily Methangkool MD, MPH UCLA Anesthesiology CSA at ASA® 2024 Invitational addressing potential impacts of technology on #anesthesiology workforce shortages ASA Monitor APSF FAER

Our very own Dr. Michael Pinsky, MD, CM, Dr hc, FCCP, MCCM, spoke at UCLA Anesthesiology #GrandRounds for their Visiting Professor program! He discussed the physiology in the preoperative room!

UCLA Anesthesiology residency leadership track and non-clinical residents education tracks with Dr. Dane Saksa and colleagues for ASA®
open.spotify.com/episode/4HNh2n…

Congratulations to PGY-1 | CBY Resident Physician, Eileen Nguyen, MD, PHD! 🎉 Dr. Nguyen was recently published as an author in Cell Reports entitled, 'The functional and anatomical characterization of three spinal output pathways of the anterolateral tract.'

Thrilled to see our collaborative work with Ottolia Lab from UCLA Anesthesiology published in Nature Communications !!

Cardiac function is regulated by the sodium-dependent inhibition of the sodium-calcium exchanger NCX1 🫀

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38714663/

With the brilliant UCLA Anesthesiology and David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA residents and medical students at #WARC2024 Meeting organized by UCI Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care at Irvine, CA

FAER ASA®

Michael Pinsky, MD, CM, Dr hc, FCCP, MCCM, Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Bioengineering, Cardiovascular Disease, & Anesthesiology Pitt Critical Care Medicine joins the UCLA Anesthesiology #GrandRounds tomorrow for the Visiting Professor program! He will discuss the physiology in the preoperative room.

Congratulations to PGY-4 | CA-3 Resident Physician, Dr. Jordan Francke, on being selected as one of two recipients of the SOAP/Kybele International Outreach Grant at the Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology Annual Meeting! 🎉

Congratulations to DAPM PGY-1 | CBY Resident Physician, Eileen Nguyen, MD, PHD! 🎉 Dr. Nguyen was recently published as an author in Anesthesiology entitled, 'Brainstem Modulation of Nociception by Periaqueductal Gray Neurons Expressing the μ-Opioid Receptor in Mice'.

Excited to share our latest preprint on the role of Snai1 in PH-induced RV Failure 🫁🫀.

Outstanding work by SOMANSHU BANERJEE and V R Clark, MD and the rest of the team 👏👏👏.

Thanks to our collaborators from Canada Sebastien « Seb » Bonnet 🙏🙏

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

ATS PC Assembly 3CPR Council

Congratulations to Dr. Rajesh Kumar on receiving a National Institutes of Health (NIH) R21 Grant! 🎉 They will examine whether a low-cost thiamine intervention can improve blood brain barrier function and reduce mood and cognition deficits in Type 2 diabetes mellitus adults.

We are very excited that our team of CRNAs is growing and would like to introduce the following new team members. A warm welcome to Tatum Dobalian, CRNA and Meron Admassu, CRNA! 🎉 We look forward to their valuable contributions to our department! 👏

Kashmira Chawla, MD, MSc, Anesthesiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Instructor at Harvard Medical School, joins UCLA Anesthesiology this week! Dr. Chawla will present on several topics regarding global perioperative care as she leads tomorrow's #GrandRounds . 🌎🥼

UCLA DAPM CA-2 Resident Physician, Dr. Varina Clark, is one of three authors of the editorial entitled, Reframing the gender equity discussion in anaesthesiology; adopting best practices to promote physician retention and belonging. Read here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38581231/

Today, on #AdministrativeProfessionalsDay , we recognize and celebrate the contributions of our administrative staff that keep our department running smoothly. We are lucky you are part of the UCLA Anesthesiology team! 🎉🌟

IT’S TIME to develop more
“📖comprehensive,
👤individualized,
✊🏾race-conscious approaches
to providing anesthetic care and establishing a culture of perioperative safety 🏥💉”

Read our Anesthesia&Analgesia editorial here👇🏾
bit.ly/CautionandCour…

Such an AMAZING UCLA Anesthesiology Grand Rounds on Intra- and Peri-operative Crisis Management by Alexander Arriaga MD MPH ScD!

Thanks for emphasizing the importance of periop safety for pts and providers & the need for continued reflection, teaching, and trainee education! #Datadriven #ARSConference

Alexander Arriaga, MD, MPH, ScD, Associate Professor Harvard Medical School and Attending Anesthesiologist Brigham and Women’s Anesthesiology, will be presenting our #GrandRounds tomorrow on crisis management in the operating room! 🩺🏥

Our department is more than halfway through our #DAPMFitnessChallenge24 ! Many of our team came together this past weekend for a beautiful hike and a fun beach volleyball game. #DAPMActiveApril24

Bravo LEJLA MEDZIKOVIC and Dr. Mansoureh Eghbali!!! 👏👏 #WomenInSTEM