UCLA Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine
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Trailblazing the field of anesthesiology through advanced research, education and discovery at the Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Medicine at UCLA.
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Congratulations to Brittany Burton, MD for receiving the 2025 SOAP/FAER Mentored Research Training Grant at the @soap_hq Annual Meeting! 🎉 Thank you, Dr. Burton, for all you do for our department and being a wonderful UCLA DAPM team member. 💛
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Honored to co-write this w/
@courtneyjburnsmd.bsky.social
—a rising 🌟 bringing 💥 qualitative expertise to well-being science

Our jobs can be minefields; but: shared experience gives us 🦸‍♀️ superpowers to help each other through the hardest parts & co-create supportive cultures
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Join us in celebrating our Patient Specialty Services Techs during #AnesthesiaTechWeek! Our PSSTs are integral members of the anesthesia patient care team and their contributions are invaluable to the success of the department and the overall care of patients at #UCLAHealth.
UCLA DAPM celebrates Anesthesia Tech Week from March 31-April 4, 2025
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Today we celebrate our physicians and their devotion to excellence in clinical care, teaching, and research settings. Happy #NationalDoctorsDay to the anesthesiologists of UCLA DAPM and to all our colleagues at @dgsomucla.bsky.social and @uclahealth.org! 🩺🥼🏥💙💛
National doctors day flyer honoring UCLA DAPM doctors
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Last night, we celebrated our 5th Annual Womxn’s Symposium featuring DAPM faculty, nurses, and staff with a specific focus on work-life integration! A delicious dinner followed by an engaging discussion with the moderators, panelists, and audience made for a wonderful evening! 💜 #womxnshistorymonth
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Zhen Mei, MD, Assistant Professor of Transfusion Medicine and Coagulation Pathology at @dgsomucla.bsky.social , will be presenting at our combined #GrandRounds with #UCLASurgery tomorrow! Dr. Mei will share insights on rotational thromboelastometry (ROTEM). 🏥⚕️
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Join us as we celebrate Womxn’s History Month at our 5th Annual DAPM Womxn's Symposium this Wednesday, March 26th! This year's symposium theme is "Womxn Leaders & A Conversation on Work-Life Integration". We hope you can join us! To RSVP, uclahs.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Flyer for DAPM symposium featuring headshots of panelists, moderators, and hosts
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Congrats to K. Elliott Higgins, III, MD for receiving the 2025 SEAd Grant, sponsored by #SocietyforEducationinAnesthesia! “Validating a Novel Inventory to Assess Well-Being Influencers and Guide the Cultivation of Supportive Learning Environments in Anesthesiology Training.” @ehigginsmd.bsky.social
Headshot of K. Elliott Higgins, III, MD
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It’s #MatchDay! Congratulations to all of the medical students who received their letters this week matching into #anesthesiology. Welcome to the specialty!

#anesthesiologist
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Happy #MatchDay2025! 🎉💙💛

• 63% of the class will stay in California
• One-third of the class will train in the @uofcalifornia.bsky.social, with 20% of the class continuing their training at UCLA Health

Read more at UCLA Health: uclahs.fyi/4kKy8gX
Class of 2025 group photo
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Today is #MatchDay! Please join us in extending a warm welcome to the incoming UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Residency Class of 2029!! Congratulations to all and welcome to our UCLA family! #UCLAAnes #anesthesia #UCLADAPM
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🎉 The 2025 DAPM Scientific Evening on March 11th celebrated our department’s research accomplishments over the past year! From the Poster Session to Oral Presentations, there was excitement and conversation happening everywhere. Congratulations to all the awardees! 🔬 #anesthesiology #uclaanesthesia
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Today is National Health Workforce Well-Being Day, organized by the National Academy of Medicine. It’s a reminder of the importance of sustainable, supported work lives for all of us.

We’re proud to be part of the NAM Clinician Well-Being Collaborative, advocating for lasting change.
Health Workforce Well-Being Day on March 18 flyer Dr. Elliott Higgins presenting at NAM on Well-being influencers and WISH inventory Dr. Higgins presenting at NAM Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience
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Proud of my friend @ehigginsmd.bsky.social , an emerging leader in healthcare worker well-being, crushing it with a plenary at @nam.edu! Highlighting his vital work on measuring systemic influencers of well-being. The mentee is quickly surpassing the mentor- couldn't be happier!!
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In a March 2025 editorial, Drs. Mazzeffi, Zaaqoq, and Teman discuss the article on perioperative extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation by Kapoor et al. in the same issue. Read more: ow.ly/u25t50V8kGW
Image with the Anesthesiology journal logo at the top and a pull quote from the March 2025 editorial by Mazzeffi et al: "A well-developed extracorporeal CPR program can produce excellent survival in cases of perioperative cardiac arrest when patients are carefully selected.”
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✈️🚂 DC-bound!

Off to speak @nam.edu Health Workforce Well-Being Day Event ✨

My 📣: We can’t fix what we can’t see! We need smart strategies to measure both individual well-being (e.g., burnout) and the systemic influencers that shape it. 💪

#HWWBDay

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🎉 PRESENTING THE 2025-26 CHIEF RESIDENT PHYSICIANS!

Please join our department in congratulating our 2025-26 Chief Resident Physicians on this well-deserved appointment:

✨ Andrea Antenucci, M.D.
✨ Michael Lobasso, M.D.
✨ Sonali Nayak, M.D.
✨ Rebecca Toohey, M.D.
Announcing DAPM chief residents with their 4 headshots