2025 Celebration of Research
The Celebration of Research is a showcase of what we have done in research in this past year. Please attend to celebrate our department’s effort in research, enjoy a chat with colleagues, and support and congratulate your colleagues who have contributed greatly to our research mission.
The Celebration will include three types of activities: 1) presentations from our people, 2) talks from our guest speaker, and 3) publication competition. Awards will be given to the first and third activities, and all faculty, fellows, residents, CRNAs and staff are invited to submit abstracts for poster or platform presentation as well as to share any published (or in press) papers reporting original studies.
Our guest speaker this year is Dr. Judith Hellman. She is a professor and researcher in the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at UCSF. She won 2019 ASA Excellence in Research Award. She is well-known for her research in sepsis and acute inflammation.
Schedule of Events
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Oral Presentations
2:30 PM – 4:10 PM
Pinn Hall Conference Center
Poster Presentations
4:10 PM – 5:20PM
Pinn Hall 2ABC & Meeting Room 1
Guest Lecture: Sepsis, Injury, and Exploration:
A Physician-Scientist’s Journey Through Anesthesia, Critical Care and Research
Presented by Judith Hellman, MD, University of California San Francisco
5:30 PM
Pinn Hall Conference Center
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Guest Lecture: Non-Canonical Immune Cells, Systems and Networks in Inflammation and Sepsis
Presented by Judith Hellman, MD, University of California San Francisco
7:00 AM
Pinn Hall Conference Center
Publication Awards Announcements
7:55 AM
Pinn Conference Center
Guest Lecture: Immunomodulation and neuro-immunomodulation in sepsis, inflammation and injury: Focus on the endocannabinoid and endovanilloid systems
Presented by Judith Hellman, MD, University of California San Francisco
8:05 AM
Pinn Conference Center
Guest Speaker Bio
Judith Hellman, MD
Endowed Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
University of California San Francisco
Judith Hellman, M.D. is the William L. Young, M.D. Endowed Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is an ICU physician-scientist conducting basic-translational research on the immunology of sepsis and injury.
Dr. Hellman earned her B.A. in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.D. at Columbia University. She did full residencies in Internal Medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University and in Anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), followed by a clinical fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at MGH. Subsequently, she completed a T32-supported research fellowship on sepsis at MGH.
She was on faculty at Harvard Medical School and MGH from 1997 to 2008, when she transitioned to UCSF. Her research focuses include: the role of the innate immune system in infection and sepsis, immunologic mechanisms and immunomodulation in sepsis and injury, the role of the endothelium in inflammation and organ injury, and neuro-immune modulation by the endocannabinoid and endovanilloid systems. Dr. Hellman has maintained continuous research funding since 1997, through federal (NIH T32, K08, multiple R01s; DARPA), State (California Department of Cannabis Control), University, and Foundation sources. In 2015, she received the IARS Frontiers in Anesthesia Research Award, and in 2019, the ASA Excellence in Research Award.
Dr. Hellman has served as Co-Chair of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) Congress Program Committee, Chair of the SCCM Research Committee, Chair of the 2023 Shock Program Planning Committee, and Chair of the Shock Society Preparedness Committee. She also served two terms on the SCCM and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Joint Surviving Sepsis Campaign Research Committee, which was tasked with outlining research priorities in sepsis.
At UCSF, she is the Program Director for the Anesthesia T32 research training program. As the UCSF Anesthesia Research Vice Chair, she also manages multiple aspects of the research domain, including but not limited to the recruitment and development of physicians and scientists, training and mentorship of research trainees, establishment of departmental research priorities, and allocation of space and funds.
Dr. Judith Hellman is deeply committed to mentoring. She has served as the primary mentor or on the research advisory committees of numerous research trainees. In 2024, she received the Mentor of the Year Award from the UCSF Clinical Translational Science Training (CTST)’s Resident Research Training Program.