2026 DAPM Publications & Presentations

Spring 2026 DAPM Publications & Presentations

• Theodora Wingert, MD, Tiffany Williams, MD, PhD, Andrew Young, MD, Zarah Antongiorgi, MD, Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD, and Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD: Prospective validation and real-time implementation of an automated machine learning postoperative mortality prediction model. British Journal of Anesthesiology.
• Betelehem Asnake, MD and Nourian Maziar, MD: Roadmap to Creating a Global Health Equity Training Program Within US Anesthesiology Residency Programs. World Journey of Surgery.
• Jason Batten, MD: Decision-Making Approaches Used to Limit Potentially Nonbeneficial Life-Prolonging Interventions. JAMA Network. 
• Nancy Boulos, MD, Amelie Delaporte, MD, and Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Response to "Reframing rapid sequence intubation safety: the missing psychological dimension”. Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine.
• Nancy Boulos, MD, Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD, Eileen Nguyen, MD, PhD, and Amy Zhou, MD, MS: Call to Action: The Hidden Role of Anesthesiologists in the Opioid Epidemic. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 
• Nancy Boulos, MD, Brionna Bulgarelli, MD, Francis Perkins, MD, and Maziar Nourian, MD: Intraoperative tight blood glucose control reduces the incidence of postoperative Pneumonia in minimally invasive esophagectomy: a randomized clinical trial: Comment. Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine. 
• Nancy Boulos, MD, Amelie Delaporte, MD, and Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Rapid sequence intubation in high-risk patients: what clinicians and researchers must know - a narrative review. Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine
• Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD, Amelie Delaporte, MD, Nancy Boulos, MD, and Yann Gricourt, MD: Impact of PerioperAtive KeTamine on Enhanced Recovery After abdominal Surgery (IMPAKT ERAS). Comment on Br J Anaesth 2025; 135: 1770-8. British Journal of Anesthesiology.
• Jonathan Dahan, MD, and Brittany Burton, MD, MHS, MAS: Defining social isolation in contemporary surgical outcomes research. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. 
• Catherine Cha, MD, Judi Turner, MD, and Brittany Burton MD: From healthy volunteers to laboring patients: Interpreting novice gastric ultrasound accuracy. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia. 
• Brittany Burton, MD, MHS, MAS: Selection, Coding, and Context for Interpreting Social Determinants of Opioid-Use Disorder in Chronic Pain. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 
• Brittany Burton, MD, MHS, MAS: Marginal Inequities in Perioperative Medicine. Anesthesia & Analgesia.
• Amelie Delaporte, MD, Theodora Wingert, MD, Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, and Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Intraoperative Hypotension and Delayed Graft Function after Kidney Transplantation: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis. Anesthesiology Open. 
• Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD: Performance of the hypotension prediction index as an indicator of hypotensive haemodynamic instability in surgical patients. BMC.
• Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, Walter Rusin, MD, PhD, and Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Machine learning for hemodynamic instability prediction and hemorrhage management in trauma and perioperative care. Current Opinion in Anesthesiology. 
• Theodora Wingert, MD, Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD, and Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD: From Cuffs to Code: Machine Learning in Non-Invasive Blood Pressure Monitoring. Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine.
• Amelie Delaporte, MD, and Alexandre Joosten, MD: Short exposure, big effect? Interpreting the impact of intraoperative glucose control on surgical infections. Anaesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine.
• Amelie Delaporte, MD, Amy Zhou, MD, MS, and Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Pediatric Tonsillectomy Trials: The Importance of Surgical and Analgesic Context. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 
• Amelie Delaporte, MD, and Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Impact of continuing renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors before surgery on intraoperative hypotensive events: a secondary analysis of the STOP-or-NOT Trial. British Journal of Anaesthesia. 
• Amelie Delaporte, MD, and Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Intrathecal morphine versus paravertebral block for minimally invasive cardiac surgery: a single-centre retrospective cohort study. British Journal of Anaesthesia.
• Eileen Nguyen, MD, PhD, Amelie Delaporte, MD, and Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Opioid-free pathways in bariatric surgery: methodological caveats and interpretive considerations. European Journal of Anaesthesiology. 
• Amelie Delaporte, MD, and Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Eadyn-guided haemodynamic strategies: Hypothesis generating but not yet practice changing. European Journal of Anaesthesiology. 
• Amelie Delaporte MD, Ehab Bahrun MD, and Alexandre Joosten MD, PhD: Hemodynamic data reporting and group separation: Key to interpreting individualized blood pressure trials. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia.
• Eilon Gabel, MD, and Theodora Wingert, MD: Automating eligibility assessment and enrollment for sugammadex administration within an integrated perioperative workflow. JAMIA Open. 
• Vadim Gudzenko, MD: Implementation of a regional extracorporeal membrane oxygenation program for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: results of the prospective observational study. Resuscitation Plus.
• Christine Trieu, MD, Linda Li, MD, and Michelle Harvey, MD: Expression of Calcitonin Gene-related Peptide and Its Application to Cochlear Implantation Under Local Anesthesia With Monitored Anesthesia Care in the Very Elderly: The University of California, Los Angeles, Experience. Otology & Neurotology. 
• K. Elliot Higgins, MD: Advancing Cultures of Organizational Resilience: The Next Chapter in Perioperative Well-Being. A & A Practice. 
• Andrew Hudson, MD: Adversarial AI reveals mechanisms and treatments for disorders of consciousness. Nature Neuroscience. 
• Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Intraoperative hemodynamic management during liver transplantation and postoperative morbidity: a multicenter cohort study. Anesthesiology. 
• Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Intraoperative blood pressure management in noncardiac surgery: a narrative review based on current evidence. Intensive Care Medicine. 
• Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Short-term modulations in cardiopulmonary bypass flow enhance urine output: ancillary analysis of the FLOWMAPCA trial. Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing. 
• Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Best hypnotic drug choice for rapid sequence induction in the operating room: study protocol for a 3-arm superiority open-labeled randomized controlled trial with blinded evaluation of the primary outcome (the HyPnotiKs study). Trials.
• Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Perioperative Vasopressor Management in Noncardiac Surgical Patients. Anesthesiology. 
• Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Risk factors for in-hospital postoperative complications and 6-month graft survival after liver transplantation: A multicenter cohort study. Liver Transplant. 
• Philip Levin, MD: Patient Understanding of Health Care Practitioner Titles-A California Survey. Dermatologic Surgery. 
• Jennifer Lucero, MD, MA: Conscientious objection. Current Opinions in Anesthesiology. 
• Bi Mo, MD, MPH, Sandra Sacks, MD, MEd, and Jerry Markar, MD: Spinal Cord Stimulation as a Potential Therapeutic Modality for Managing Concurrent Chronic Low Back and Abdominal Pain Complicated by Device Migration: A Case Report. Clinical Case Reports. 
•  Joseph Meltzer, MD: Patient- and Institution-Level Factors Associated With Intraoperative Cardiac Arrest During Major Noncardiac Surgery. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 
• Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH: DOACs, Andexanet, Pump Clots-Oh My! A Joint Consensus Statement for Safe Management of Patients on DOACs Requiring Cardiac Surgery. Anesthesia & Analgesia.
• Theodora Wingert, MD, Kelly Feldman, MD, MS, MBA, Tiffany Williams, MD, PhD, Amelie Delaporte, MD, Matthew Lum, MD, Christine Nguyen-Buckley, MD, Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Associations of Intraoperative Hypotension and Vasopressor Administration With Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury in Children Undergoing Liver Transplantation: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Pediatric Anesthesia.
• K. Higgins III, MD, John Patton MD, MBA, Benjamin Chu, MD, and Julia Klein, MD: Primary neuraxial anesthetic for elective total knee arthroplasty in patient with left ventricular assist device. Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. 
• Louis Saddic III, MD, PhD: Single-Cell Proteomics Reveals Novel Cell Phenotypes in Marfan Mouse Aneurysm. Science Direct. 
• Theodora Wingert, MD: Associations of Intraoperative Hypotension and Vasopressor Administration With Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury in Children Undergoing Liver Transplantation: A Retrospective Cohort Study-Response to Letter to the Editor. Pediatric Anesthesia.
• Christopher Wray, MD, and Victor Xia, MD: Normothermia Machine Perfusion Is Associated With Reduced Transfusion Requirements, Improved Hemodynamic Stability, and Decreased Vasopressor Use During the Postreperfusion Phase of Liver Transplantation. Clinical Transportation. 
• Victor Xia, MD: Intraoperative Mean Arterial Pressure in Relation to Delayed Graft Function in Living-Donor Kidney Transplantation.Transplantation Proceedings.
• Hua Cai, MD, PhD: eNOS Uncoupling-ER Stress-Mitochondrial Dysfunction Axis in the Development of Pulmonary Hypertension. JACC: Basic to Translational Science.
• Mete Civelek, PhD: Deficiency of ZC3HC1 Modulates Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype and Increases Neointima Formation. AHA, ASA Journals. 
• Mete Civelek, PhD: Atherosclerotic Fibrous Plaques in Women Present ECM Remodeling Linked to TGF-β. AHA, ASA Journals.
• Ateyeh Dehghanitafti, MD, Mohammad Hatamnejad, MD, MPH, Joshua Eghbali, PhD, Soban Umar, MD, PhD, and Mansoureh Eghbali, PhD: Immediate and Long-Term Effects of Different Montages of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Over Primary Visual Cortex in Patients With Chronic Migraine: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Trial. Pain Practice.
• Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD: Engineering Human Retinal Organoids and Eye-on-a-Chip Models for Degenerative Eye Disease. ACS Publications. 
• Mingxia Gu, MD, PhD: Rebalancing NTRK2 isoforms promotes vascular regeneration in bronchopulmonary dysplasia. Cell Press. 
• Rajesh Kumar, PhD: Brain tissue changes, network dysfunction, and cerebral hemodynamic deficits in postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. Heart Rhythm.
• Rajesh Kumar, PhD: Glymphatic system impairment in type II diabetes mellitus adults. Scientific Reports.
• Soban Umar, MD, PhD: Perinatal Nicotine Exposure-Induced Cardiac Phenotype Is Mediated by miR-1-MIAT Interaction and Is Transmitted Transgenerationally. The FASEB Journal.
• Thomas Vondriska, PhD: Slit2-robo signaling regulates angiogenesis and repair following myocardial infarction. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology.
•  David Cho, MD, MBA, MA: Longitudinal Trends in Iron Deficiency Screening and Treatment Before Elective Surgery: A Retrospective Observational Study. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 
• Nishita Vani Lockwood, MD: Machine Learning Approach to Predict Postoperative Pain and Opioid Usage in Elective Primary Spine Surgery: A Retrospective Study. Journal of Pain Research. 
• Maziar Nourian, MD, Amelie Delaporte, MD, Theodora Wingert, MD, Nancy Boulos, MD, MPH, Tristan Grogan, Emily Methangkool, MD, MPH, Jacques Neelankavil, MD, Louis Saddic, MD, PhD, Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, Olaf Mercier, Soban Umar, MD, and Alexandre Joosten, MD: General anaesthesia versus monitored anaesthesia care and postoperative outcome in patients with elevated right ventricular systolic pressure undergoing low-risk surgical procedures: a retrospective single-centre cohort study. BJA Open.
• Nancy Boulos, MD, Kyubin Kim, MD, Brionna Bulgarelli, MD, and Maziar Nourian, MD: Effect of perioperative dexmedetomidine on acute kidney injury after partial nephrectomy. Comment on Br J Anaesth 2025; 135: 1212–22. British Journal of Anaesthesia.
• Nancy Boulos, MD: Rapid development of propofol infusion syndrome after short-term exposure. Cureus.
• Joe Hong, MD, PhD, and Mansoureh Eghbali, PhD: Hepatocyte Growth Factor Underlies Male Protection Against Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
• Laleh Jalilian, MD, and Jason Lee, MD: Exploring Ambient Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Learning and Feedback During OR-to-ICU Handoffs: A Co-Design and Simulation Study. JMIR Medical Education.
• Amelie Delaporte, MD, Theodora Wingert, MD, Cecilia Canales, MD, Pamela Chia, MD, MS, Daniel Cole, MD, Robert Whittington, MD, Maxime Cannesson, MD, PhD, and Alexandre Joosten, MD, PhD: Preoperative Cannabis Use and Postoperative Delirium in Older Adults Undergoing Major Noncardiac Surgery. Anesthesiology Open.
• Eileen Nguyen, MD, PhD: Tegmental kappa-opioid receptor neurons modulate opioid withdrawal via the periaqueductal gray. Brain.
• Eileen Nguyen, MD, PhD: Cre-based functional profiling of RVM neurons implicates distinct populations in sensory-mediated behaviors. The Journal of Pain. 
• Frank Major, MD: In Response. Anesthesia & Analgesia. 
• Neil Parikh, MD: Adult Liver Transplant Anesthesiology Practice in the Post-COVID-19 Era in the United States: Survey From the Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia. Clinical Transplantation.

Presentations: 

1. Nourian M. M., Perioperative Implications of Alpha Gal Syndrome. Stanford Department of Anesthesia, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine. ASPIRE Ground Rounds Series. January 5, 2026
2. Lobasso M., Hassanin S., Kahf S., Balakrishna A., Nourian M., The Weekly Dose: A Weekly Anesthesia Electronically Delivered Topic Aimed to Improve Intraoperative Teaching and Learning. ASA Advance, January 23-25th 2026. Las Vegas, NV.
3. J. Uchi, A. Hughes, M. Nourian, T. Merritt. Carrageenan: A Non-mammalian Allergen in Alpha-gal Syndrome. American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Meeting. March 1st, 2026 Philadelphia, PA