Graduating residents and fellows face a tremendous set of professional, personal, and financial challenges as they transition from training into their first years of practice. While engagement in the ASA and the CSA provides countless benefits over an anesthesiologist’s career, many early career professionals are hard-pressed to find the time or the money to justify […]

Once again California anesthesiologists successfully raised funds for the ASAPAC during its annual Day of Contributing Challenge, which is critically important to national-level advocacy for our specialty. However, what happens in Sacramento directly affects the day-to-day practice for anesthesiologists in California, so CSA leaders have decided to host our own DoC Challenge to help raise […]

Brown eyes drooping, Cronutt fell asleep quickly in his transport enclosure after receiving an intramuscular cocktail of midazolam, medetomidine, and butorphanol. Having arrived from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo, where he had been cared for as a special needs animal, the 8-year-old California sea lion was now in the parking lot of the SAGE […]

At this year’s June CSA House of Delegates meeting, the inaugural class of CSA UCI Leadership for Healthcare Management participants presented the projects they have been completing this year. During the past eight months the participants have been learning leadership skills from the UCI Paul Merage School of Business Faculty, as well as leaders from […]

The sound of the drape pulling back, metal rings on a metal rod, rustles a memory. “So,” he says kindly, “I hear you’re an anesthesiologist.” I look up at the physician who has entered the preop bay where I lie on a gurney. I smile under my mask and reply, “Not today.” I am, of […]

On October 6, 2021, the United States Department of Education announced a temporary waiver to allow borrowers to receive credit for federal student loan payments that previously did not qualify for the public service loan forgiveness program (PSLF). The waiver has created a large amount of new interest and attention in the program for good […]

I recently had the chance to sit down with Edna Ma, MD, a physician anesthesiologist and entrepreneur in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Ma is the author of the bilingual children’s book series, “Travel Learn and See.” We spoke about her background, what brought her to writing, and how to balance a busy anesthesiology practice with […]

Written & Edited by Drs. Veronica Zoghbi, Carole Lin, & Victoria Fahrenbach Global climate change has reached a tipping point in its effects on human health. The impact from human activity has hit many aspects of our daily lives and is now reaching catastrophic levels.  While deadly heat waves, storms, floods, and wildfires are immediate […]

The CSA’s Annual Meeting was in-person this year (the first one since 2019) at the beautiful Mission Bay San Diego Hyatt Regency. It was wonderful to see colleagues and friends and learn new techniques and advances in the field. The resort was gorgeous and family-friendly, the speakers, panels and workshops were excellent and informative, and […]