Michael A. Gropper, Ph.D., M.D.

Director, Critical Care Medicine

Additional Languages

French
German

Education

UCLA School of Medicine 1989

Residencies

UCSF Medical Center, Anesthesiology 1992

Fellowships

UCSF Medical Center, Critical Care Medicine 1993

Selected Research and Publications

1. Gropper MA. Postoperative respiratory muscle dysfunction: only the strong survive. Anesthesiology. 2013 Apr; 118(4):783-4.
2. Murphy EL, Kwaan N, Looney MR, Gajic O, Hubmayr RD, Gropper MA, Koenigsberg M, Wilson G, Matthay M, Bacchetti P, Toy P. Risk Factors and Outcomes in Transfusion-associated Circulatory Overload. Am J Med. 2013 Apr; 126(4):357.e29-38.
3. Lipshutz AK, Gropper MA. Acquired neuromuscular weakness and early mobilization in the intensive care unit. Anesthesiology. 2013 Jan; 118(1):202-15.
4. Puntillo KA, Neuhaus J, Arai S, Paul SM, Gropper MA, Cohen NH, Miaskowski C. Challenge of assessing symptoms in seriously ill intensive care unit patients: can proxy reporters help? Crit Care Med. 2012 Oct; 40(10):2760-7.
5. Lipshutz AK, Gropper MA. Central venous catheters: follow the evidence, not the guidelines. Crit Care Med. 2012 Aug; 40(8):2528-9.
6. Toossi S, Lomen-Hoerth C, Josephson SA, Gropper MA, Roberts J, Patton K, Smith WS. Organ donation after cardiac death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Ann Neurol. 2012 Feb; 71(2):154-6.
7. Weiskopf RB, Feiner J, Toy P, Twiford J, Shimabukuro D, Lieberman J, Looney MR, Lowell CA, Gropper MA. Fresh and stored red blood cell transfusion equivalently induce subclinical pulmonary gas exchange deficit in normal humans. Anesth Analg. 2012 Mar; 114(3):511-9.
8. Toy P, Gajic O, Bacchetti P, Looney MR, Gropper MA, Hubmayr R, Lowell CA, Norris PJ, Murphy EL, Weiskopf RB, Wilson G, Koenigsberg M, Lee D, Schuller R, Wu P, Grimes B, Gandhi MJ, Winters JL, Mair D, Hirschler N, Sanchez Rosen R, Matthay MA. Transfusion-related acute lung injury: incidence and risk factors. Blood. 2012 Feb 16; 119(7):1757-67.
9. Gilliss BM, Looney MR, Gropper MA. Reducing noninfectious risks of blood transfusion. Anesthesiology. 2011 Sep; 115(3):635-49.
10. Donovan AL, Gropper MA. Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future-Niels Bohr. Crit Care Med. 2011 Aug; 39(8):2005-7.
11. Razonable RR, Findlay JY, O'Riordan A, Burroughs SG, Ghobrial RM, Agarwal B, Davenport A, Gropper M. Critical care issues in patients after liver transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2011 May; 17(5):511-27.
12. Puntillo KA, Arai S, Cohen NH, Gropper MA, Neuhaus J, Paul SM, Miaskowski C. Symptoms experienced by intensive care unit patients at high risk of dying. Crit Care Med. 2010 Nov; 38(11):2155-60.
13. Liu LL, Aldrich JM, Shimabukuro DW, Sullivan KR, Taylor JM, Thornton KC, Gropper MA. Special article: rescue therapies for acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. Anesth Analg. 2010 Sep; 111(3):693-702.
14. Aldrich JM, Gropper MA. Can we predict pulmonary complications after thoracic surgery? Anesth Analg. 2010 May 1; 110(5):1261-3.
15. Josephson SA, Moheet AM, Gropper MA, Nichols AD, Smith WS. Ventilator-associated pneumonia in a neurologic intensive care unit does not lead to increased mortality. Neurocrit Care. 2010 Apr; 12(2):155-8.
16. Ong MK, Mangione CM, Romano PS, Zhou Q, Auerbach AD, Chun A, Davidson B, Ganiats TG, Greenfield S, Gropper MA, Malik S, Rosenthal JT, Escarce JJ. Looking forward, looking back: assessing variations in hospital resource use and outcomes for elderly patients with heart failure. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2009 Nov; 2(6):548-57.
17. Lipshutz AK, Gropper MA. Perioperative glycemic control: an evidence-based review. Anesthesiology. 2009 Feb; 110(2):408-21.
18. Savel RH, Goldstein EB, Gropper MA. Critical care checklists, the Keystone Project, and the Office for Human Research Protections: a case for streamlining the approval process in quality-improvement research. Crit Care Med. 2009 Feb; 37(2):725-8.
19. Shimabukuro DW, Gropper MA. Noisy mechanical ventilation: listen to the melody. Anesthesiology. 2009 Feb; 110(2):214-5.
20. Hlava N, Niemann CU, Gropper MA, Melcher ML. Postoperative infectious complications of abdominal solid organ transplantation. J Intensive Care Med. 2009 Jan-Feb; 24(1):3-17.

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