Jina Sinskey, MD
Associate Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine
Dr. Jina Sinskey is an Associate Professor of Anesthesia at UCSF specializing in pediatric anesthesia. She is the Vice Chair of Well-Being for the Department of Anesthesia at UCSF and serves as Chair of the American Society of Anesthesiologists Committee on Physician Well-Being.
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She is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia and is Secretary/Treasurer of the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia's Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative. She is an Associate Editor for the Pediatric Anesthesia Section of OpenAnesthesia and previously served as the quality improvement lead for the Pediatric Anesthesia Division at UCSF.
She received her undergraduate degree from MIT and her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency in anesthesiology at UCSF and her pediatric anesthesiology fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital.
Prior to pursuing a career in medicine, she worked as a management consultant specializing in marketing strategy at the Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte). Her approach to clinician well-being leverages her experience in management consulting and quality improvement, where she applies concepts of change management, human-centered design, continuous process improvement, and implementation science to create systems approaches to reduce burnout and foster well-being.
Her research interests include clinician well-being, virtual/augmented reality for pediatric patients, conflict management, fetal anesthesia, and medical education.
Awards
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- Fellow, American Society of Anesthesiologists, 2021
- Ronald D. Miller Award for Resident Mentorship, UCSF Department of Anesthesia, 2019
Education & Training
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- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2019
- Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Boston Children's Hospital 07/2016
- Anesthesia Residency University of California, San Francisco 06/2015
- M.D. Medicine Tufts University School of Medicine 05/2011
- B.S. Chemistry with minor in Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 06/2005
Interests
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- Conflict Management
- Pediatric Anesthesia
- Medical Education
- Quality Improvement
- Physician Wellbeing
- Interprofessional Education
- Fetal Anesthesia
Websites
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- @@JinaSinskeyMD on Twitter (twitter.com)
Grants and Projects
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- Training to Enhance Researcher Resilience and Adaptability (TERRA), NIH/NIGMS, 2024-2026
- Investigating Team Flow in Healthcare to Enhance Patient Safety and Clinician Well-Being, UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, 2023
- Comprehensive Anesthesia Research Training, NIH, 1995-2022
- Pediatric Distraction on Induction of Anesthesia with Virtual Reality (PEDI-VR), UCSF Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, 2019
Publications (26)
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NegotiatingTeratomaPlacental InsufficiencyChild BehaviorRespiratory Distress Syndrome, NewbornBurnout, ProfessionalMedicineAnesthesiaPulmonary SurfactantsUmbilical ArteriesNeuroaxonal DystrophiesAnesthesiologyAnesthesia, GeneralVirtual RealityMeningomyelocele
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Postpandemic Burnout: Reply.
Anesthesiology 2024 Vinson AE, Sinskey JL, Afonso AM -
Looking Across the Drape: A Novel Quality Improvement Approach to Understanding Surgeon and Anesthesiologist Burnout.
Annals of surgery 2024 Sinskey JL, Schwartz R, Boscardin CK, Chang JM, Kumar SB, Lebares CC -
U.S. Attending Anesthesiologist Burnout in the Postpandemic Era.
Anesthesiology 2024 Afonso AM, Cadwell JB, Staffa SJ, Sinskey JL, Vinson AE -
Drivers of Well-Being and Burnout in Anesthesiology Residents.
The journal of education in perioperative medicine : JEPM 2023 Tan M, Naegle JA, Boscardin CK, Chang DP, Chang JM, Sullivan KR, Sinskey JL -
Patient Safety and Clinician Well-Being.
Anesthesiology clinics 2023 Sinskey JL, Chang JM, Lu AC, Pian-Smith MC
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Quality of Life Improvement: A Novel Framework and Approach to Well-Being.
Anesthesiology clinics 2022 Sinskey JL, Chang JM, Nicholau D, Gropper MA -
The Wicked Problem of Physician Well-Being.
Anesthesiology clinics 2022 Sinskey JL, Margolis RD, Vinson AE -
The ulnar artery: A site suitable for arterial cannulation in pediatric patients.
Paediatric anaesthesia 2021 Roux J, Kohn MA, Sinskey J, Nguyen H, Boor M, Rouine-Rapp K -
Conflict Management Education for Anesthesiology Residents: Bridging the Gap in Interpersonal and Communication Skills Competency.
A&A practice 2021 Sinskey JL, Chang JM, Thornton KC, Boscardin CK, Sullivan KR -
Grow and Advance through Intentional Networking: A pilot program to foster connections within the Women's Empowerment and Leadership Initiative in the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia.
Paediatric anaesthesia 2021 Margolis RD, Berenstain LK, Janosy N, Yanofsky S, Tackett S, Schwartz JM, Lee JK, Deutsch N, Sinskey JL -
Pediatric Distraction on Induction of Anesthesia With Virtual Reality and Perioperative Anxiolysis: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Anesthesia and analgesia 2021 Jung MJ, Libaw JS, Ma K, Whitlock EL, Feiner JR, Sinskey JL -
Design and Implementation of an Innovative, Longitudinal Wellness Curriculum in an Anesthesiology Residency Program.
A&A practice 2021 Thornton KC, Sinskey JL, Boscardin CK, Sullivan KR -
Challenging the status quo of scientific presentations.
Paediatric anaesthesia 2020 Chatterjee D, Yaster M, Lockman JL, Glass NL, Schreiner MS, Sinskey JL, Fiadjoe JE -
Use of Remifentanil for Open in utero Fetal Myelomeningocele Repair Maintains Uterine Relaxation with Reduced Volatile Anesthetic Concentration.
Fetal diagnosis and therapy 2020 Marsh BJ, Sinskey J, Whitlock EL, Ferschl MB, Rollins MD -
Addressing Postpandemic Clinician Mental Health : A Narrative Review and Conceptual Framework.
Annals of internal medicine 2020 Schwartz R, Sinskey JL, Anand U, Margolis RD -
Improvement in perioperative anesthesia documentation for fetal interventions.
Paediatric anaesthesia 2020 Rico Mora DA, Perez KM, Parikh JM, Chatterjee D, George P, O'Reilly-Shah V, Rollins M, Sinskey JL, Patak L -
Use of Augmented Reality During Inhaled Induction of General Anesthesia in 3 Pediatric Patients: A Case Report.
A&A practice 2020 Libaw JS, Sinskey JL -
OrphanAnesthesia: Anesthesia Recommendations for Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy
OrphanAnesthesia: Anesthesia Recommendations for Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy 2020 Jina Sinskey, Robert S. Holzman -
Applying Conflict Management Strategies to the Pediatric Operating Room.
Anesthesia and analgesia 2019 Sinskey JL, Chang JM, Shibata GS, Infosino AJ, Rouine-Rapp K -
Intraoperative surfactant administration during neonatal sacrococcygeal teratoma resection.
Paediatric anaesthesia 2019 Au V, Gregory G, Sinskey J -
A Review of Middle Aortic Syndromes in Pediatric Patients.
Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 2019 Forman N, Sinskey J, Shalabi A -
Benefits of Ultrasound Imaging for Placement of Caudal Epidural Blockade in 3 Pediatric Patients: A Case Report.
A&A practice 2018 Sinskey JL, Vecchione TM, Ekstrom BG, Boretsky K -
Incidence and Management of Umbilical Artery Flow Abnormalities during Open Fetal Surgery.
Fetal diagnosis and therapy 2017 Sinskey JL, Rollins MD, Whitlock E, Moon-Grady AJ, Vu L, Feiner JR, Ferschl MB -
Perioperative considerations in infantile neuroaxonal dystrophy.
Paediatric anaesthesia 2017 Sinskey JL, Holzman RS -
Assessment of damage in Korean patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
The Journal of rheumatology 2007 Sung YK, Hur NW, Sinskey JL, Park D, Bae SC -
Transcriptional silencing of a transgene by RNAi in the soma of C. elegans.
Genes & development 2005 Grishok A, Sinskey JL, Sharp PA