Vital Times: The CSA Podcast

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! Mentorship has long been recognized as a crucial component of training physicians. Benefits of mentorship in medicine include increased productivity, improved career satisfaction, expansion of professional networks, reduction in stress, and better work-life balance. Mentorship has also been shown to aid recruitment and retention of a dive...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! CSA Vital Times tracked down some of the chairs running some elite Anesthesiology Departments - they just happen to be in California! They have survived and thrived the seismic changes occurring across all academic medical institutions, ie the increase in clinical need, with huge growths in anesthetic opportunities (and locations - see #N...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! Dr. Rita Agarwal continues the conversation about sexual and gender harassment with fellow Drs. Christine Doyle, Sydney Thomson, and Alyssa Burgart.   Gender and sexual harassment can be harmful in many ways and not just to the person/people being harassed. It can occur to all genders and is often associated with increased costs to the in...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! To amplify the message of Black History Month, CSA Vital Times Podcast series revisits the talented Ashley Oliver, MD. We spoke with her in February 2022 when she was a cardiothoracic anesthesia fellow at UCLA, after having been a resident and Chief Resident at UCSF. Dr. Oliver is now a first-year faculty at UCLA’s cardiothoracic section,...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! A recent study from the Association of Academic Medical Colleges reported tht sexual harassment is common in the medical profession and that anesthesiologist (both men and women) reported the highest incidence of harassment. Harassment led to decreased morale, decreased engagement and a higher intention to leave. Join me for a fascinating...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! The utilization of physician extenders in the UK healthcare system has been quite controversial recently, with topics like training and validation requirements, impact on training and staffing, all bubbling to the surface. In addition, the lack of funding for physicians and residency slots has contrasted with the increasing spending on ph...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! US and Californian Maternal morbidity is alarmingly high, especially in Black and Hispanic women. How did this happen, and how do we become active change agents in reversing the trend? Leaders in healthcare equity - Drs. Amanda Williams (OB), Jennifer Lucero (OB Anesthesia), and Mofya Diallo (Pedi Anesthesia) join host Dr. Ludwig Lin for...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! Dr. Rita Agarwal interviews Drs. Jay Brodsky and John Brock Utne, the authors of a new book on the history of anesthesia at Stanford during the Larson Years. They share funny and moving anecdotes about the people, the department, and the events that shaped one of the top anesthesia programs in the country. 

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! October 1 was Latino Physician Day. For anyone interested in the health of Californians, this is important, because a large portion of our population is Latin-X, and the physicians who care for them should reflect that demographic. We at CSA are excited to bring together a panel of Latinx anesthesiologist at different stages and areas of...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! Those few precious minutes in the Preoperative area spent speaking with a patient and their significant others are essential to the initiation of a successful anesthetic, as is the “vibe” generated during the entire time until the induction agent for General Anesthesia goes in.    What are the keys to success? We speak with Dr. Phil Jones...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! This is Part 2 of Debriefing on the Kindness and Empathy Deficit in the Medical Profession featuring Professor Doug Hollan of UCLA Anthropology, Dr. Wes Ely of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Dr. David Elkin of UCSF. 

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! Anthropologist, Intensivist, Anesthesiologist, and Psychiatrist, convene to talk about the anthropological concept of empathy, why it’s missing in modern-day medicine, and how to go about reclaiming it. Professor Doug Hollan of UCLA Anthropology, Dr. Wes Ely of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Dr. David Elkin of UCSF.   

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! In Part 2 of Dr. Lin's interview with Dr. Conte, they discuss how you can get involved in CSA advocacy and what led Dr. Conte to becoming President of the society.  Dr. Conte also discusses his diverse upbringing, what led him to becoming an anesthesiologist, and his love for competitive figure skating.  

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! This episode of the CSA Vital Times Podcast is with Antonio Hernandez Conte, MD, MBA, FASA, President-Elect and one of the current member advocates for the CSA in the State Capitol.  Dr. Hernandez Conte, along with CSA's legislative advocate, make our voices heard on decisions about the way medicine is practiced and reimbursed in Cal...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! Recently CSA Vital Times published a poignant first-person account by Dr. Zeest Khan, cardiac anesthesiologist, of her struggles with #LongCOVID. This is a follow-up, with Drs. Khan and Wes Ely, MD, a prominent critical care medicine specialist at Vanderbilt University and leader in ICU delirium management, who is now directing efforts in...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! Hosted by Dr. Ludwig Lin, listen to Part 2 of this fascinating discussion panel featuring:  Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA, FAAP Elizabeth Duggan, MD Jina Sinskey, MD, FASA Amy Vinson, MD, FAAP   It’s no secret that being a healthcare professional in the United States right now, even more so within Anesthesiology, is stressful. The attrition rate...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! In support of Black History Month, California Society of Anesthesiologists is proud to present a podcast conversation with Dr. Ashley Oliver, currently a cardiac anesthesiology fellow at UCLA.  Dr. Oliver is a former PhD candidate in film studies, having received a Masters in it. However, she had an epiphany while working abroad, and pivo...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! Dr. Ludwig Lin hosts a discussion panel featuring:  Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA, FAAP Elizabeth Duggan, MD Jina Sinskey, MD, FASA Amy Vinson, MD, FAAP   It’s no secret that being a healthcare professional in the United States right now, even more so within Anesthesiology, is stressful. The attrition rate is high. One of the factors that impact...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! Dr. Zeest Khan is a Stanford-trained cardiac anesthesiologist. Very early in 2020, she fell ill with COVID, but the worse was to come - she developed “Long COVID”. To be a physician used to crises, there can’t be a scenario worse than feeling disempowered and unable. To add to that, Dr. Khan encountered skepticism from the healthcare syst...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! Welcome to the latest episode of the CSA Podcast, Vital Times. Dr. Ron George interviews his friend, mentor, fellow Obstetric Anesthesiologist, and a highly engaged member of the California Society of Anesthesiologists, Brendan Carvalho, MD, FRCA, from Stanford University. Dr. Carvalho is Professor and Chief of the Division of Obstetric A...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! In honor of #CRPSAwarenessMonth, Dr. Lin interviews physician scientist Vivianne Tawfik, MD, PhD, who just won the ASA James Cottrell Presidential Scholar’s Award for her work with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). Dr. Tawfik has a successful lab studying causes such as glial function,  her clinical work with CRPS, as well as her wor...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! Welcome to the latest episode of the CSA Podcast, Vital Times. Today's guest is likely a well-known name to many in the California Society of Anesthesiologists - Dr. Ed Mariano who happens to be the current President of the CSA. If you have not met him in person, you may feel you know him from his prolific digital presence, web-blogs...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! In honor of Women in Medicine Month, Dr. Ludwig Lin interviews anesthesiologist and intensivist Sue Carlisle, MD, PhD, who recently retired as UCSF Dean for the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital campus.   In this chat, Dr. Carlisle talks about her unconventional - yet entirely intentional - way she arrived at each step of her care...

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! Welcome to the second episode of the CSA Podcast, Vital Times. Physician well-being has certainly been pushed into the forefront of our practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. This episode Ronald George, MD, FRCPC, speaks with the Vice Chair, for the ASA Committee on Physician Well-Being and Associate Professor at UCSF, Jina Sinskey, MD....

if you have any feedback, please send us a text! Thank you! To kick off the new CSA Podcast, Vital Times, we are going with a surefire crowd pleaser: Dr. Merlin Larson, the man behind the popular posts about History of Anesthesia on Twitter. He talks to Dr. Ludwig Lin about the relevance of history to every anesthesiologist. He also discusses his favorite bits of anesthesia history, picks out some...