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John R. Feiner, M.D.

John R. Feiner, M.D.

  • Professor of Clinical Anesthesia
  • Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care

Contact Information

Appointments: (415) 476-2131
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Education

M.D., UCSD School of Medicine

Residencies

  • Internship: Internal Medicine, UCSF. 1987-1988
  • Anesthesia Residency: UCSF, 1988-1991

Fellowships

  • Fellowship: UCSF, 1991-1992

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Anesthesiology

Program Affiliations

  • Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care
  • Department of Surgery, Division of Transplantation

Clinical Expertise

  • Kidney Transplantation
  • Liver Transplantation
  • Pancreas Transplantation

Research Interests

  • View Research Profile at UCSF Clinical & Translational Science Institute

  • Apnea with remifentanil and propofol
  • Hypoxic ventilatory drive at altitude
  • Neuromonitoring in Spine Anesthesia
  • Physiology of acute anemia
  • Predictors of kidney and liver donor organ function
  • Pulse oximeter accuracy
  • Transfusion Related Acute Lung Injury

Biography

My research addresses clinical questions by studying human subjects or patients. I collaborate with other faculty in the department on my research and provide expertise in the following areas: data analysis and statistics; mathematical modeling; data acquisition programming; human studies; respiratory physiology.

My research involvement has included multiple different projects:

• Accuracy of pulse oximetry, including determination of methemoglobin, carboxyhemoglobin, and the accuracy of cerebral oximetry.
• Organ transplantation and efforts to improve the quality of cadaveric organs.
• Acute normovolemic hemodilution to study the tolerance of acute anemia, as a way to examine red cell transfusion thresholds. Additionally, we have used this model to study other issues in transfusion, including TRALI.
• The utility of somatosensory and motor evoked potential, which are used in major spine surgery to assess the integrity of spinal cord function.
• The physiology of breathholding and drug-induced apnea.
• High altitude physiology
• Clinical effects of neuromuscular blockade

Clinical Trials

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Publications

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 88
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  1. Gylys R, Feiner J, Pologe J, Delianides T, Sutter S, Bickler P, Lipnick MS. Quantifying pulse oximeter accuracy during hypoxemia and severe anemia using an in vitro circulation system. J Clin Monit Comput. 2023 Jun 02. View in PubMed
  2. Olmos AV, Robinowitz D, Feiner JR, Chen CL, Gandhi S. Reducing Volatile Anesthetic Waste Using a Commercial Electronic Health Record Clinical Decision Support Tool to Lower Fresh Gas Flows. Anesth Analg. 2023 02 01; 136(2):327-337. View in PubMed
  3. Herbenick D, Fu TC, Eastman-Mueller H, Thomas S, Svetina Valdivia D, Rosenberg M, Guerra-Reyes L, Wright PJ, Kawata K, Feiner JR. Frequency, Method, Intensity, and Health Sequelae of Sexual Choking Among U.S. Undergraduate and Graduate Students. Arch Sex Behav. 2022 08; 51(6):3121-3139. View in PubMed
  4. Okunlola OE, Lipnick MS, Batchelder PB, Bernstein M, Feiner JR, Bickler PE. Pulse Oximeter Performance, Racial Inequity, and the Work Ahead. Respir Care. 2022 02; 67(2):252-257. View in PubMed
  5. Kolodzie K, Cakmakkaya OS, Boparai ES, Tavakol M, Feiner JR, Kim MO, Newman TB, Niemann CU. Perioperative Normal Saline Administration and Delayed Graft Function in Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplantation: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Anesthesiology. 2021 10 01; 135(4):621-632. View in PubMed
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In the News

  • UCSF Research Team Shows that Mild Hypothermia in Deceased Organ Donors Improves Function in Kidney Transplant Recipients

    UCSF Transplant Surgery - Richard Barg - July 30, 2015
    UCSF News reports on a just published study in the The New England Journal of Medicine in which mild hypothermia in deceased organ donors was found to significantly reduce delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients compared with normal body temperature. The lead author of the study is Claus Niemann, MD, Professor of Anesthesia and Surgery at UCSF, and co-Director of the Ischemic Organ Injury Lab. The findings in the study could lead to an increase in the availability of kidneys for [...]

  • UCSF Receives Grant to Improve Outcomes in Organ Donor Transplantation

    UCSF Transplant Surgery - October 20, 2011
    UCSF News reports on the award of a $2 million grant by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to a team led by Claus Niemann, MD, Associate Professor in the UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care and co-Director of the Ischemic Organ Injury Lab to improve outcomes in organ donor transplantation.  The grant was awarded to Niemann and his collaborators including John Feiner, MD, as well as Ryutaro Hirose, MD, and John Roberts, MD, chief of the UCSF Transplant [...]

 

 
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