Honored to give ophtho GR at @dgsomucla.bsky.social #SteinEye ✨ Trainee vignettes opened the room beautifully. I discussed how we may define clinician well-being, build a shared language for change, & use tools like #WISH to assess well-being influencers, guide action, & track what helps.

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 @uclaanes.bsky.social

“You are not alone.” Anesthesiologists face significant well-being challenges and often suffer in silence. In our new work with original art, we explore how visual art may foster reflection and conversation, cultivating supportive cultures. @ehigginsMD.bsky.social rapm.bmj.com/content/earl...

Our manuscript telling the story of the development & validation of the #WISH inventory is out @anesthesiology.bsky.social — free for the next month! Read here how to measure the root drivers of well-being & identify the pillars of supportive work environments: journals.lww.com/anesthesiolo...

"[...] anesthesiologists assume various critical roles—conductor, improviser, instrumentalist—to orchestrate the flow and maintain harmony within the entire ensemble [...]" In a Mind to Mind piece, Ortega and Song harmonize anesthesiology and music theory: ow.ly/C4xU50VkXE6

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_...

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

Welcome to team @uclaanes.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

It’s #MatchDay! Congratulations to all of the medical students who received their letters this week matching into #anesthesiology. Welcome to the specialty! #anesthesiologist

🎉 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

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.

Happy #HWWBDay! Well-being is MUCH more than ≠ burnout (& in 🏥🧑‍⚕️, burnout is epidemic). We need sustainable, well-supported careers. Yesterday filled my cup— 🔥 leaders tackling this BIG problem w/ rigor, despite strong headwinds. Let’s keep at it—for us & our patients. @nam.edu @asahq.bsky.social

Best friend/mentor ever. Thanks dude for your support always 🫶 #bestmentorever

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!!

✈️🚂 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 @asahq.bsky.social @uclaanes.bsky.social

Can we optimise #perioperative team performance using 'team flow'? New single-centre qualitative study by Coss et al #humanfactors #performance #teamdynamics www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S000...

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡 Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

A metric that reflects reality and the @bluesky platform as the preferred one to transmit science publications with collegial communication

What is the threshold of alcohol intake that poses health risk? A new feature @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... open-access

Thrilled to see WISH featured at @AUA_Anesthesia! ✨ Hope our work helps light the path forward for well-being improvement in healthcare. 🙏🏻 WISHwellbeing.com #WISH #wellbeing #ASAwellbeing journals.lww.com/anesthesiolo...

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In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”. https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It

We’re ready to #StandUpforScience Join us Friday! @standupforscience.bsky.social

One thing we can do when it seems we have no way to fight the lies hammering down on us: Tell the truth. In as many contexts as we can, to as many people as we can, for as long as we have breath, we can tell the truth. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...

A concern about medical A.I. is that its reliance by physicians could lead to degradation of performance. Here is one such example of de-skilling with GI doctors and colonoscopy for detection of polyps (preprint) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As doctors, researchers, and other academics flee X (formerly Twitter), @munkeatlooi.bsky.social looks at what the social network Bluesky is and why #MedSky might be worth trying www.bmj.com/content/388/...

👏👏👏Thank you Dr. Milam & Dr. Pandit for this thoughtful editorial on @iarsjournals.bsky.social 's DEI strategy for the journal, in its People & Health Advocacy section. Well-said.👏👏👏 @emarianomd.bsky.social @harriethopfmd.bsky.social @alopipatelmd.bsky.social journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a...

@dgsomucla.bsky.social @uclaanes.bsky.social #UCLAproud!!!

An important part of an anesthesiology residency is leadership training, both formal & informal. Members of @asalifeline Committee on Anesthesia Care Team outline the resources available to enhance training. @asamonitor @apsforg buff.ly/3WNMhzA

Visual Abstract in #Anesthesiology - Perioperative Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Adults: A Single-center Retrospective Review and Analysis 🖌️ ow.ly/uYxe50V8jeL

A generation of scientists could be lost through the axing of various programs designed to help young people find a path into basic and applied research. www.science.org/content/arti...

Thousands of fired USAID employees were given 15 minutes today to clear out their personal belongings from headquarters.

“We know who we are, at least in part, by finding the words — messy, imprecise, unexpected — to tell others, and ourselves, how we see the world. The world which no one else sees in exactly that way.“ 🙏🏻 @margaretrenkl.bsky.social for putting this so beautifully. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...

Unbelievable news. Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers. New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable T cells that attack pancreatic cancer, with 75% of patients cancer free at three years—far, far better than standard of care. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

By @katherinejwu.com "The NIH... supported 99 percent of the drugs approved in the U.S. from 2010 to 2019. The agency has had a hand in “nearly all of our major medical breakthroughs over the past several decades,” The NIH is in a struggle for its (and our) lives. This is existential to America:

Stunning writing from Dr. Avidan 🙏🏻 “For now, Thanatos must wait as I continue to dance joyfully to the music of time.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @jama.com

“As doctors, researchers, and other academics flee X (formerly Twitter), Mun-Keat Looi looks at what the social network Bluesky is and why #MedSky might be worth trying” ✅ www.bmj.com/content/388/...

A meeting of a committee which advises the US FDA on vaccine policy has been canceled, the second such disruption to a federal vaccine advisory panel since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the nation’s top health official earlier this month reut.rs/43dA9fa

On the erosion of trust in doctors www.wsj.com/health/welln...

Some thoughts on wellbeing (or lack thereof!) from resident anaesthetists and other stakeholders #AnSky #MedSky #wellbeing https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.16575

Staff and observers worry that the agency may not be prepared for emerging threats including bird flu and insect-borne diseases.

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Introducing MedArena medarena.ai/app/?__theme... for clinicians to ask medical questions and compare results of LLM models @jameszou.bsky.social @doximity.bsky.social

Meet our APSF #PatientSafety Ambassadors! Follow them for all things #anesthesia! go.bsky.app/DbzXqcA

New study on #sexualharassment in #anesthesiology in @iarsjournals.bsky.social by AUA ➡️60%♀️&30%♂️report harassment ➡️75%♀️report verbal/nonverbal harassment ➡️87%♀️&8%♂️feel clinical ability doubted ➡️source likely anesthesiologists buff.ly/42iYxfd @mayahastie.bsky.social @alyssaburgart.bsky.social

Join us in following some of our favorite accounts! go.bsky.app/R9DWN6D

Devereaux and Marcucci discuss the identification and management of perioperative covert strokes in the context of new original research. Read the editorial: ow.ly/Tr0p50UY3KJ

Infographic in #Anesthesiology - Covert Operation: On the Hunt for Periop Stroke 🎨 journals.lww.com/anesthesiolo...