Efrat Lelkes, MD
HS Assoc Clinical Professor
EVP-Clinical Integrated N.Work
Chancellor/EVC/FAS

Efrat Lelkes is a pediatric critical care and palliative care physician who is interesting in fostering an increased understanding and integration of bioethics in pediatrics to ameliorate moral distress and enhance meaning in medicine for providers. Through clinical ethics, multidisciplinary education and narrative ethics, she aims to strengthen our ability to provide excellent care, advance pediatric medicine further, and care for the sickest of children.

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
• Hospice and Palliative Medicine University of Washingon 2017
• Pediatric Bioethics Mercy Children's 2016
• Pediatric Critical Care University of California San Francisco 2013
• Pediatrics University of Chicago 2009
• MD University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health 2006

Websites

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• UCSF Bioethics (bioethics.ucsf.edu)

Publications (16)

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Internship and ResidencySchizosaccharomycesPhysiciansMedical FutilityDecision MakingLung NeoplasmsLungTissue DonorsBioethicsIntensive Care Units, PediatricHospice and Palliative Care NursingHeart-Assist DevicesSchizosaccharomyces pombe ProteinsParentsEducation, Medical

• "Death as the One Great Certainty": ethical implications of children with irreversible cardiorespiratory failure and dependence on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.
  Frontiers in pediatrics 2024 Moynihan KM, Taylor LS, Siegel B, Nassar N, Lelkes E, Morrison W
• Pediatric Resident Well-being: A Group Concept Mapping Study.
  Academic pediatrics 2024 Babal JC, Lelkes E, Kloster H, Zwemer E, Lien ER, Sklansky D, Coller RJ, Moreno MA, Schultz R, Webber S
• Barriers to Pediatric Palliative Care: Trainee and Faculty Perspectives Across Two Academic Centers.
  Journal of palliative medicine 2023 Levine A, Winn PA, Fogel AH, Lelkes E, McPoland P, Agrawal AK, Bogetz JF
• The SAGA histone acetyltransferase module targets SMC5/6 to specific genes.
  Epigenetics & chromatin 2023 Mahrik L, Stefanovie B, Maresova A, Princova J, Kolesar P, Lelkes E, Faux C, Helmlinger D, Prevorovsky M, Palecek JJ
• Full Collection of Personal Narratives.
  Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 2022 Christina Mulé, Shaina Rose Ciaccio, Rose Bendas, Monica Snyder, Jessica Bratt Carle, Angela Yvonne Dahm, Monika Jaquier, Sirena Washington, Jill Wieber Lens, Indre Razbadauskaite Venske, L. Emily …

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• Sacrifices.
  Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics 2022 Efrat Lelkes
• Bioethics for Neonatal Cardiac Care.
  Pediatrics 2022 Madrigal VN, Feltman DM, Leuthner SR, Kirsch R, Hamilton R, Dokken D, Needle J, Boss R, Lelkes E, Carter B, Macias E, Bhombal S
• Is this as good as it gets? Implications of an asymptotic mortality decline and approaching the nadir in pediatric intensive care.
  European journal of pediatrics 2021 Moynihan KM, Lelkes E, Kumar RK, DeCourcey DD
• Palliative Sedation.
  2020 Eileen Rhee, Efrat Lelkes, Wynne Morrison
• Should Decision Making Be Shared in High-Risk Pediatric Heart Donation?
  AMA journal of ethics 2020 Lelkes E, Patel A, Joong A, Gossett JG
• Should Physicians Offer a Ventricular Assist Device to a Pediatric Oncology Patient With a Poor Prognosis?
  AMA journal of ethics 2019 Patel A, Joong A, Lelkes E, Gossett JG
• Trauma-informed Palliative Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Assessing and Treating Patients and Families with Trauma- and Stress-Related Symptoms (SA505).
  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2018 Chao-Hui Huang, James Dionne-Odom, Kathleen Bickel, Efrat Lelkes, Elizabeth Kvale, Edward MacPhee
• Humility Through Humiliation in Continuity Clinic.
  Perspectives in biology and medicine 2016 Lelkes E
• The spatiotemporal cellular dynamics of lung immunity.
  Trends in immunology 2014 Lelkes E, Headley MB, Thornton EE, Looney MR, Krummel MF
• 162 Regulatory T cells modulate systemic illness following acute lung injury.
  Cytokine 2013 Efrat Lelkes, Mark R. Looney, Matthew F. Krummel
• Reactive oxygen species, apoptosis and altered NGF-induced signaling in PC12 pheochromocytoma cells cultured in elevated glucose: an in vitro cellular model for diabetic neuropathy.
  Neurotoxicity research 2001 Lelkes E, Unsworth BR, Lelkes PI