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and management. Senior residents participate in an OR
management rotation, as well as a teaching rotation where
they teach POCUS skills to interns on rotation. Outside
the operating room, residents participate in a variety of
committees at the hospital, state, and national level, as
CSA delegates and ASRA committee members.

with Kyle Ahn, MD won the " Top 3 Case Presentation " at
the 65th Anesthesiology Update Meeting in Utah. Sabrina
Oukil, MD was appointed Chair-Elect for ASRA Resident
Section Committee 2020-21.

The award-winning UCI team at a pre-pandemic ASRA meeting

Brian Chung, CA-2, checking intra-operative labs

Joseph Guzman, CA-2, performing an epidural on his Obstetric
Anesthesiology rotation

Scholarships did not end when our ability to travel did.
During the past academic year, our residents participated
in ASA, ASRA, NANS, ASA Practice Management, Updates
in Anesthesiology, AAPM, WARC, SEA, and SOAP. WeiChen Lin, CA-3, Louis Lu, CA-3, Bobak Koohian, MD, and
Jila Rouhi MD, with Shalini Shah, MD, won the Resident &
Fellow " Best of Meeting Abstracts " and Research Travel
Award at the 18th Annual ASRA Meeting. Morten Neve, MD

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Despite the pandemic, we were able to continue our
training experiences and in-person protected didactic
days with very little interruption. We are so grateful to
have the ability to keep our residents safe and preserve
the activities that ensure their progression to board
certification. Our residents were class-act team players,
staying flexible, providing excellent patient care, and
participating in COVID-response activities such as creating
education videos, making new emergency airway kits, and
sourcing additional PPE. We've also found some silver
linings by adding frequent Zoom mock orals and " Zoom
Anesthesia Pearl " (ZAP) sessions! To combat the expected
ventilator and PPE shortage, Govind Rajan, MD, and
Kate McCartney, MD, partnered with a multi-disciplinary
group to create the Bridge Ventilator Consortium. Melissa
Chang, MD, led a team to design and produce MIT-certified
masks out of sterile processing wraps that approach N-95
protection.
In July, our graduates headed off to fellowships in
Interventional Pain Medicine at UC Davis, University of
Maryland, and UCI. Our graduates also took fellowships
in Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine at
University of Washington, Virginia Mason, University of
Utah & UCI, Obstetric Anesthesiology at UCI/Long Beach
Memorial, Pediatric Anesthesiology at Children's Hospital
of Philadelphia, and Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine
at UCI. Two of our graduates got their top choice of faculty
appointments at UC Irvine and Pacific Anesthesia in
Honolulu, Hawaii. We couldn't be prouder.

We look forward to another exciting year
of education and innovation at UCI.

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