Jeff Poage, MD, CSA Past President, ASAPAC Executive Board Member WE NEED YOUR PARTICIPATION!! Legislative advocacy is important in shaping healthcare policies that directly impact our great profession.  We support key legislators and candidates who help champion issues critical to anesthesiology such as patient safety, fair reimbursement, addressing workforce shortages and understanding our role in […]

By Alyssa Burgart, MD, MA, FAAP Trailblazing, innovating, and transforming patient care—meet the living women in anesthesiology who changed the profession. This article was originally published in Poppies and Propofol by Dr. Burgart. National Women Physicians Day, celebrated every February 3rd, honors the groundbreaking contributions of women in medicine and the challenges we face to […]

Brian Lee, MD, MBA, Chris Muse-Fisher, MD, MBA, and Kathy Cazares, MD, MBA This January, the California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA) sponsored three residents to attend ASA Advance: The Anesthesiology Business Event in Atlanta, Georgia. This conference brings together anesthesiologists to discuss the complexities of our healthcare system—diving into issues like practice management, economics, operational […]

CSA’s Annual Report – Vital Times is now available!

By Hannah Fairbanks This article was originally published by Hannah Fairbanks for UCSF News, you can view the original publication here. To listen to Dr. Ludwig Lin’s Vital Times Podcast Episode where he interviews Dr. Harper, click here. From an early age, Dr. Marilyn Hill Harper’s father, a pharmacist who owned the corner drugstore in […]

CSA celebrates National Anesthesiologists Week. To toot our own horns, anesthesiologists are key linchpins in the Perioperative as well as healthcare processes of California. We are clinicians, researchers, and advocates. We have solicited essays celebrating the identity of Anesthesiologists from people in different stages of their careers; medical student aspiring to be an Anesthesiologist, residents, […]

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By Eugenia Ayrian, MD, FASA  The 2025 election season is here, and this is your chance to play an active role in shaping the future of the California Society of Anesthesiologists (CSA). Each year, CSA opens nominations for representatives in its geographic districts and mode-of-practice forums, providing a unique opportunity to contribute to the society’s […]

By Rita Agarwal, MD, FAAP, FASA Welcome to another episode of Vital Times the California Society of Anesthesiologists’ Podcast with your host Dr. Rita Agarwal.  There have been a lot of questions recently regarding the appropriateness of patients scheduled for care in an ambulatory surgical center (ASCs). It appears that sicker and more complex patients […]