Kerstin Kolodzie, MD, PhD, MAS
Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• MAS Advanced Clinical Science University of California 2019
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
• Board Certification Anesthesiology University of Hamburg 2006
• PhD Pharmacogenomics University of Hamburg 2004
• M.D. School of Medicine University of Hamburg 2000

Websites

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• Clinical Profile at UCSF Medical Center (ucsfhealth.org)
• Kolodzie Lab (anesthesia.ucsf.edu)

Publications (47)

Top publication keywords:
Respiration DisordersDroperidolAir PollutantsKidney TransplantationQuadriceps MuscleRespiratory Tract DiseasesPostoperative Nausea and VomitingPrimary Graft DysfunctionMalignant HyperthermiaPerioperative CareOzoneAntiemeticsAnesthesiaDelayed Graft FunctionPostoperative Complications

• Contribution of Acute Kidney Injury After Liver Transplant in Development of Chronic Kidney Disease: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2026 Mendez NV, Chan D, Thompson T, Chen D, Zeiner S, Kothari RP, Braun HJ, Bokoch MP, Kolodzie K, Adelmann D
• Association between preoperative tropospheric ozone exposure and adverse perioperative respiratory events in paediatric patients: a single-centre retrospective cohort study.
  British journal of anaesthesia 2026 Ferschl MB, Chen S, Collis S, Jacobson A, Kolodzie K
• High body mass index at liver transplantation: A retrospective single-center analysis of blood product utilization and postoperative outcomes.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2025 Zeiner S, Kothari RP, Reddy M, Mendez NV, Roll GR, Braun HJ, Bokoch MP, Kolodzie K, Kimberger O, Legrand M, Adelmann D
• Ultrasound-based assessment of muscle mass is associated with early recovery after kidney transplant: a prospective single-center study.
  BMC anesthesiology 2025 Mendez NV, Bokoch MP, Adelmann D, Bucknor MD, Ku E, Kolodzie K
• Vasopressin Is Not Associated With Severe Kidney Injury in Liver Transplantation: A Propensity Score-adjusted Analysis.
  Transplantation direct 2025 Antonucci E, Bokoch MP, Adelmann D, Kolodzie K, Roll GR, Sun E, Legrand M, Kothari R

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• Anesthetic Considerations for Orthopedic Amputation Surgery.
  Current Anesthesiology Reports 2025 Abigail Howard, Kerstin Kolodzie
• Differences in Acute Postoperative Opioid Use by English Proficiency, Race, and Ethnicity After Total Knee and Hip Arthroplasty.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2024 Joo H, Nguyen K, Kolodzie K, Chen LL, Kim MO, Manuel S
• Lactate concentration at the end of liver transplant: Early predictor of graft function or just one piece of the puzzle?
  Clinical transplantation 2023 Galli AM, Kothari R, Adelmann D, Holm Z, Bokoch MP, De Gasperi A, Niemann CU, Kolodzie K
• Perioperative mortality in liver transplantation before and after the implementation of the organ allocation policy Share 35.
  Clinical transplantation 2022 Holm ZD, Kolodzie K, Galli AM, Meyhoff CS, Niemann CU, Adelmann D
• 1 Four different postoperative analgesic approaches in patients converted from laparoscopic to open gynecologic tumor surgery – trends and progress.
  Gynecologic Oncology Reports 2022 Hyundeok Joo, Kevin H. Nguyen, Kerstin Kolodzie, Lee-may Chen, Lee-lynn Chen
• Wildfire Smoke Exposure Is Associated with Adverse Respiratory Events under General Anesthesia in At-risk Pediatric Patients.
  Anesthesiology 2022 Marsh BJ, Kolodzie K, Robinowitz D, Jacobson A, Ferschl M
• Peace, not war in Ukraine or anywhere else, please.
  Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine 2022 Lefrant JY, Pirracchio R, Benhamou D, Fischer MO, Njeim R, Allaouchiche B, Bastide S, Biais M, Bouvet L, Brissaud O, Brull SJ, Capdevila X, Clausen N, Cuvillon P, Dadure C, David JS, Du B, Einav S, …
• 2021 adaptation of the editorial policy of Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine (ACCPM).
  Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine 2021 Lefrant JY, Pirracchio R, Benhamou D, Njeim R, Ausset S, Bastide S, Biais M, Bouvet L, Brissaud O, Brull SJ, Capdevila X, Cuvillon P, Dadure C, David JS, Bin D, Fischer MO, Forget P, Fujii T, Godier A…
• Perioperative Normal Saline Administration and Delayed Graft Function in Patients Undergoing Kidney Transplantation: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
  Anesthesiology 2021 Kolodzie K, Cakmakkaya OS, Boparai ES, Tavakol M, Feiner JR, Kim MO, Newman TB, Niemann CU
• Continuous Lumbar Plexus Block vs Continuous Lumbar Erector Spinae Plane Block for Postoperative Pain Control After Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty.
  Arthroplasty today 2021 Chen A, Kolodzie K, Schultz A, Hansen EN, Braehler M
• Correction: Cross-cultural adaptation of the Fresno Test for Turkish language.
  PloS one 2021 Cakmakkaya OS, Bati AH, Kolodzie K
• Extraplexus versus intraplexus ultrasound-guided interscalene brachial plexus block for ambulatory arthroscopic shoulder surgery: A randomized controlled trial.
  PloS one 2021 Harbell MW, Kolodzie K, Behrends M, Ma CB, Kinjo S, Yap E, Braehler MR, Aleshi P
• Cross-cultural adaptation of the Fresno Test for Turkish language.
  PloS one 2021 Cakmakkaya OS, Bati AH, Kolodzie K
• Perioperative outcomes for patients on chronic buprenorphine undergoing spine surgery: A case series.
  Journal of opioid management 2021 Sharp AL, Gilbert S, Perez DN, Kolodzie K, Behrends M
• Intravenous Fluid Management Practices in Kidney Transplant Patients: A Multicenter Observational Cohort Pilot Study.
  Seminars in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 2020 Efune GE, Zerillo J, Zhou G, Mazzeffi MA, Demaria S, Wang C, Society for the Advancement of Transplant Anesthesia Research Committee Writing Group
• The effects of transmuscular quadratus lumborum blocks on postoperative pain in arthroscopic hip surgery: a cohort analysis.
  Journal of anesthesia 2019 Kinjo S, Kolodzie K, Dong K, Zhang AL
• Preoperative Fascia Iliaca Block Does Not Improve Analgesia after Arthroscopic Hip Surgery, but Causes Quadriceps Muscles Weakness: A Randomized, Double-blind Trial.
  Anesthesiology 2018 Behrends M, Yap EN, Zhang AL, Kolodzie K, Kinjo S, Harbell MW, Aleshi P
• Postoperative Pulmonary Complications, Early Mortality, and Hospital Stay Following Noncardiothoracic Surgery: A Multicenter Study by the Perioperative Research Network Investigators.
  JAMA surgery 2017 Fernandez-Bustamante A, Frendl G, Sprung J, Kor DJ, Subramaniam B, Martinez Ruiz R, Lee JW, Henderson WG, Moss A, Mehdiratta N, Colwell MM, Bartels K, Kolodzie K, Giquel J, Vidal Melo MF
• Combined preoperative femoral and sciatic nerve blockade improves analgesia after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a randomized controlled clinical trial.
  Journal of clinical anesthesia 2016 Harbell MW, Cohen JM, Kolodzie K, Behrends M, Braehler MR, Kinjo S, Feeley BT, Aleshi P
• Anaesthetic techniques for risk of malignant tumour recurrence.
  The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 2014 Cakmakkaya OS, Kolodzie K, Apfel CC, Pace NL
• Preoperative Sciatic and Femoral Nerve Blocks for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Retrospective Analysis
  Journal of Anesthesia & Clinical Research 2014 Cohen JM, Kolodzie K, Shah S, Aleshi P
• Anesthesia management of patients undergoing hyperthermic isolated limb perfusion with melphalan for melanoma treatment: an analysis of 17 cases.
  BMC anesthesiology 2013 Ruschulte H, Shi S, Tseng WW, Kolodzie K, Crawford PC, Schneider DB, Kashani-Sabet M, Minor D, Apfel C, Leong SP
• Postoperative throat symptoms: does the endotracheal tube cuff pressure play a role?.
  European Journal of Anaesthesiology 2013 K. Kolodzie, P. A. Weott, T. J. OsterbergDeiss, C. S. Yost
• Effects of theophylline on anesthetized malignant hyperthermia-susceptible pigs.
  Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology 2011 Fiege M, Weisshorn R, Kolodzie K, Wappler F, Gerbershagen MU
• In-Vitro and In-Vivo Effects of the Local Anaesthetic Dibucaine on Malignant Hyperthermia–Susceptible and Normal Swine.
  Journal of Anesthesia & Clinical Research 2011 Mark U. Gerbershagen, Ralf Weißhorn, Kerstin Kolodzie, Frank Wappler, Marko Fiege
• Anaesthetic techniques for risk of malignant tumour recurrence.
  Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2010 Christian C Apfel, Ozlem S Cakmakkaya, Kerstin Kolodzie, Nathan Leon Pace
• Nausea and vomiting after office-based anesthesia.
  Current opinion in anaesthesiology 2009 Kolodzie K, Apfel CC
• Droperidol has comparable clinical efficacy against both nausea and vomiting.
  British journal of anaesthesia 2009 Apfel CC, Cakmakkaya OS, Frings G, Kranke P, Malhotra A, Stader A, Turan A, Biedler A, Kolodzie K
• The effect of postoperative fasting on vomiting in children and their assessment of pain.
  Paediatric anaesthesia 2009 Radke OC, Biedler A, Kolodzie K, Cakmakkaya OS, Silomon M, Apfel CC
• A simple clinical maneuver to reduce laparoscopy induced shoulder pain: A randomized clinical trial.
  European Journal of Anaesthesiology 2008 O. Cakmakkaya, P. Phelps, C. Apfel, O. Radke, K. Kolodzie
• Cumulative and bolus in vitro contracture testing with 4-chloro-3-ethylphenol in malignant hyperthermia positive and negative human skeletal muscles.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2005 Gerbershagen MU, Fiege M, Weisshorn R, Kolodzie K, Esch JSA, Wappler F
• Phosphodiesterase-III-inhibition with amrinone leads to contracture development in skeletal muscle preparations of malignant hyperthermia susceptible swine.
  European journal of anaesthesiology 2005 Fiege M, Wappler F, Weisshorn R, Gerbershagen MU, Kolodzie K, Schulte am Esch J
• Inhibition of sarcoplasmic Ca2+ adenosine triphosphatase in porcine skeletal muscle samples with cyclopiazonic acid enables in vitro malignant hyperthermia discrimination.
  Anesthesiology 2004 Gerbershagen MU, Wappler F, Fiege M, Weihorn R, Kolodzie K, Schulte Esch J
• Ryanodine contracture threshold times for diagnosis of malignant hyperthermia susceptibility: an experimental approach from a single laboratory.
  Journal of clinical anesthesia 2004 Weisshorn R, Wappler F, Fiege M, Gerbershagen MU, Kolodzie K, Alberts P, Horn EP, Schulte Am Esch J
• [Theophylline induces contractures in porcine skeletal muscle preparations with the disposition to malignant hyperthermia].
  Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS 2004 Gerbershagen MU, Fiege M, Weisshorn R, Kolodzie K, Wappler F
• [Is a presymptomatic malignant hyperthermia in-vitro diagnosis with 4-chloro-3-ethyl phenol possible? A study using porcine skeletal preparations].
  Anasthesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS 2004 Gerbershagen MU, Wappler F, Fiege M, Weisshorn R, Kolodzie K, Schulte am Esch J
• Kann eine Maligne Hyperthermie durch die Einsch?tzung mittels Clinical Grading Scale zuverl?ssig diagnostiziert werden?.
  AINS - Anästhesiologie · Intensivmedizin · Notfallmedizin · Schmerztherapie 2004 K Kolodzie, FM Wappler, M Fiege, R Wei?horn, MU Gerbershagen, J Schulte am Esch
• Effects of a 5HT(2) receptor agonist on anaesthetized pigs susceptible to malignant hyperthermia.
  British journal of anaesthesia 2003 Gerbershagen MU, Wappler F, Fiege M, Kolodzie K, Weisshorn R, Szafarczyk W, Kudlik C, Schulte Am Esch J
• In vitro and in vivo effects of the phosphodiesterase-III inhibitor enoximone on malignant hyperthermia-susceptible swine.
  Anesthesiology 2003 Fiege M, Wappler F, Weisshorn R, Gerbershagen MU, Kolodzie K, Schulte Am Esch J
• 4-Chloro-M-Cresol Induced Contractures in Muscle Samples from Malignant Hyperthermia Susceptible Patients Are Modulated by Dantrolene.
  Anesthesiology 2002 Frank Wappler, Marko Fiege, Ralf Weisshorn, Kerstin Kolodzie, Jochen Schulte am Esch
• In-vitro Contracture Test with Theophylline - An Alternative in Diagnosis of Malignant Hyperthermia?.
  Anesthesiology 2002 Marko Fiege, Frank Wappler, Ralf Weisshorn, Kerstin Kolodzie, Jochen Schulte am Esch
• 4-chloro-m-cresol is a trigger of malignant hyperthermia in susceptible swine.
  Anesthesiology 1999 Wappler F, Scholz J, Fiege M, Kolodzie K, Kudlik C, Weisshorn R, Schulte am Esch J