Congratulations to Cecilia Canales, MD, MPH for receiving a 2024-25 KL2 Translational Science Award from UCLA CTSI! 🎉 Her proposal is entitled: “Improving Post-surgical Cognitive Outcomes in Limited English Proficient Older Adults: A Pilot Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial.”

Extremely thought-provoking article re: organizational culture in medicine, specifically on decoupling fear from failure in clinical training environments through empathy, compassion, and psychological safety. Thanks to Elliott Higgins, MD 👨‍🎤 and team for your work and advocacy!

🎉 Congratulations to the recipient of our 2024 second quarter "Top CRNA", Touraj Sedigh! As a 2nd time recipient of the award (he also won in 2022), his colleagues describe him as "confident and skilled provider, a great team player, very adaptable, and dependable."

#inrc2024 ouststanding dinner with friends INRCworld Luca Posa Lucia hipolito #StopWar Giordano de Guglielmo Ginevra D'Ottavio Raaj Gowrishankar Renata Marchette Brian Ruyle Yolipop Catalina Zamorano Anisha Amanda Fakira Krystal Flores This meeting rocks!!!

Congrats Rana Movahedi, MD, FASA ASRA Pain Medicine Member Spotlight! Her nominator, Ms. Mary Hargett, says , “Rana is truly dedicated to education and her commitment has resulted in several teaching awards. In addition....Rana continues to participate in humanitarian projects.”

We are proud to announce that for the 35th consecutive year, UCLA Health has been named to the national honor roll of Best Hospitals by U.S. News & World Report and achieved a #1 ranking in Los Angeles and California. Learn more: ucla.in/3S82CwA

Thrilled to be at the #joyandwholenesssummitt for the #coalitionforphysicianwellbeing! Psychological safety, burnout science, well-being centered leadership, and the heady (and critical) “how-to” get there. Let’s go! 😎 #wellbeing UCLA Anesthesiology

Last day of this summer’s Physiology Outreach Program, many thanks to hosting labs & support team... congratulations to the high school students who devoted their summer to doing science! Baljit Khakh @uclaanes Department of Medicine at UCLA Health @ucla David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA #physiology UCLA Biological Chemistry

Congratulations to Grégoire Ruffenach, PHD in Dr. Mansoureh Eghbali's lab for receiving an outstanding NIH R01 Grant Award! 🎉 His project is entitled, ZFP36, an RNA Binding Protein that Regulates DNA Repair and Cell Proliferation in PAH.

What a great summer for #UCLA #Physiology Outreach Program mentors and students! 🔬 UCLA POP provides LA high school students with the opportunity to experience experimental #research first hand in UCLA labs. From DAPM, Eghbali, Olcese, Ottolia & Vondriska labs participated. 👏

July is nearly over but it's not too late to celebrate Dr. Rana Mohavedi, our monthly Member Spotlight! Dr. Mohavedi is an anesthesiologist UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a very involved member of ASRA Pain Medicine! Read more about her accomplishments here: ow.ly/aOmQ50SOfGU

Going to miss this crew!! Fantastic job to this cohort of expert, UCLA Anesthesiology fellowship-trained regional anesthesiologists. They’re ready and more than capable. 🙌 👏🏻

💥 and here we go! Welcome to UCLA Anesthesiology Ben and Jared! Psyched for this year of expertise development in regional anesthesia and pain medicine 😎

I’m thrilled to be presenting the results of my research, as part of the NIH All of Us Data Science Training Program, at the 2024 AI for Health Equity Symposium (AIHES) AIM-AHEAD Annual Meeting! UCLA Anesthesiology AllofUsResearch AIM AHEAD CONSORTIUM #aiinhealthcare #healthequity #aihes2024

Happy to share some thoughts on the need for resident leadership training in the ASA Monitor with Kathy Sumie Lehuanani Cazares! These skills can empower resident engagement in advocacy, decrease levels of burnout, and increase personal agency and fulfillment. tinyurl.com/mvcbnvau

A year after treatment finished, doctors found the cancer had spread to Sonny Sweetman's liver. But he received a new treatment for the Stage 4 cancer. today.com/health/disease…

Pulmonary hypertension is an incurable and life threatening disease but new UCLA-led research in Circulation suggests potential ways to treat it David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA: ucla.in/4cKINTO

"The introduction of the #HepzatoKit represents a cutting-edge and promising development in addressing this challenging condition," shares Dr. Dane Saksa, director of non-operating room anesthesia for UCLA Health. Read the UCLA Health News article at the link in our bio.

Our well-being is influenced by pervasive, complex factors. In anesthesiology, we’re used to navigating spaces full of complexity. When it comes to our fulfillment, we stand to benefit if we embrace the complexity of well-being antecedents. journals.lww.com/anesthesia-ana…

📢Looking for postdoc to study biomechanics of chromatin & role of histones as stress sensors UCLA. Other projects #Cardiovascular #Epigenetics, #HFpEF, #Circadian biology. Email Tom Vondriska for details…Please RT! #postdoc #academicchatter David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38765203/