Marla Ferschl, MD
Professor
Anesthesia
School of Medicine

Additionally, Dr. Ferschl attends on the integrated pediatric pain and palliative care service as a member of the acute pain team. Dr. Ferschl is also the director of fetal anesthesia at UCSF.

Throughout her career, Ferschl has demonstrated a strong commitment to medical education. She received an excellence in teaching award from the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators in 2012 and was appointed as a member of the Academy of Medical Educators in 2019. Her past leadership roles have included serving as the program director for the ACGME accredited Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship Program, and the director of fellowship education in the Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care.

Ferschl’s research interests span anesthesia for fetal surgery, operating room efficiency, and adverse respiratory outcomes in pediatric anesthesia. She has also played a pivotal role in developing and implementing the Visiting Scholars in Pediatric Anesthesia Program (ViSiPAP), a national speaker exchange program tailored for junior faculty in pediatric anesthesia.

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• 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
• Implementation and Assessment of a Visiting Scholar Exchange Program in Pediatric Anesthesiology to Promote Junior Faculty and Fellow Professional Development.
  The journal of education in perioperative medicine : JEPM 2021 Ferschl MB, Boscardin C, Ravula N, Infosino A
• Error traps in anesthesia for fetal interventions.
  Paediatric anaesthesia 2021 Ferschl MB, Rollins MD, Chatterjee D
• Language-Related Disparities in Pain Management in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit for Children Undergoing Laparoscopic Appendectomy.
  Children (Basel, Switzerland) 2020 Dixit AA, Elser H, Chen CL, Ferschl M, Manuel SP
• 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
• A Comparison of Spinal Anesthesia Versus Monitored Anesthesia Care With Local Anesthesia in Minimally Invasive Fetal Surgery.
  Obstetric Anesthesia Digest 2020 M.B. Ferschl, J. Feiner, L. Vu, D. Smith, M.D. Rollins
• East/West Visiting Scholars in Pediatric Anesthesia Program (ViSiPAP): Developing tomorrow's pediatric anesthesia leaders.
  Paediatric anaesthesia 2020 Ferschl MB, Lee JK, Lockman JL, Black S, Chatterjee D, Agarwal R, Schwartz LI, Fiadjoe J, Heitmiller E, Mershon BH, Deutsch N, McCloskey J, Infosino A
• Initial implementation of a combined faculty member and fellow exchange programme.
  Medical education 2020 Infosino A, Ferschl MB
• A Comparison of Spinal Anesthesia Versus Monitored Anesthesia Care With Local Anesthesia in Minimally Invasive Fetal Surgery.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2020 Ferschl MB, Feiner J, Vu L, Smith D, Rollins MD
• Consensus-based care recommendations for adults with myotonic dystrophy type 1.
  Neurology. Clinical practice 2018 Ashizawa T, Gagnon C, Groh WJ, Gutmann L, Johnson NE, Meola G, Moxley R, Pandya S, Rogers MT, Simpson E, Angeard N, Bassez G, Berggren KN, Bhakta D, Bozzali M, Broderick A, Byrne JLB, Campbell C, Cup …
• Images in Anesthesiology: Intraoral Lipomas.
  Anesthesiology 2018 Nguyen E, Sarah G, Ferschl MB
• 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
• Maternal convulsion during high-dose sevoflurane anaesthesia for open foetal surgery.
  British journal of anaesthesia 2017 Shavit CW, Rollins MD, Ferschl MB
• CASE 8-2016 Percutaneous Fetal Cardiac Intervention for Severe Aortic Stenosis and Evolving Hypoplastic Left-Heart Syndrome.
  Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia 2016 Ferschl MB, Moon-Grady AJ, Rollins MD, Gilliss B, Schulman SR, Tulzer G, Stohl S, Ginosar Y
• Complications of Anesthesia.
  Pediatric Anesthesiology 2015 Andrew Infosino, Marla Ferschl
• What’s New in Craniosynostosis?.
  Current Anesthesiology Reports 2015 Tina T. Dong, Marla Ferschl
• Anesthesia for in utero repair of myelomeningocele.
  Anesthesiology 2013 Ferschl M, Ball R, Lee H, Rollins MD
• The effect of deep and awake tracheal extubation on turnover times and postoperative respiratory complications post adenoid-tonsillectomy.
  Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie 2012 Menda SK, Gregory GA, Feiner JR, Zwass MS, Ferschl MB
• Thromboemboli, acute right heart failure and disseminated intravascular coagulation after intraoperative application of a topical hemostatic matrix.
  Anesthesia and analgesia 2009 Ferschl MB, Rollins MD
• Anesthesia Preoperative Medicine Clinic: Beyond Surgery Cancellations.
  Anesthesiology 2006 David B. Glick, Avery Tung, Marla B. Ferschl, BobbieJean Sweitzer
• Preoperative clinic visits reduce operating room cancellations and delays.
  Anesthesiology 2005 Ferschl MB, Tung A, Sweitzer B, Huo D, Glick DB