Elliott Higgins, MD 👨‍🎤

Honored to give ophtho GR at @dgsomucla.bsky.social #SteinEye ✨

Trainee vignettes opened the room beautifully.

I discussed how we may define clinician well-being, build a shared language for change, & use tools like #WISH to assess well-being influencers, guide action, & track what helps.

Honored to co-write this w/
@courtneyjburnsmd.bsky.social
—a rising 🌟 bringing 💥 qualitative expertise to well-being science

Our jobs can be minefields; but: shared experience gives us 🦸‍♀️ superpowers to help each other through the hardest parts & co-create supportive cultures
@uclaanes.bsky.social

Beyond the block: a canvas for well-being and conversation in anesthesiology and pain medicine As regional anesthesiologists and pain management clinicians, we routinely face demands that can challenge our well-being.[1 2][1] Indeed, multiple datasets suggest that physicians specializing in Reg...

“You are not alone.”

Anesthesiologists face significant well-being challenges and often suffer in silence.

In our new work with original art, we explore how visual art may foster reflection and conversation, cultivating supportive cultures.

@ehigginsMD.bsky.social

rapm.bmj.com/content/earl...

@uclaanes.bsky.social @asahq.bsky.social

Measuring Well-being Influencers: Development and... : Anesthesiology of an inventory measuring perceptions of modifiable workplace dimensions—termed “influencers”—that shape healthcare professionals’ well-being. Methods: A core team developed the Well-Being Influenc...

Our manuscript telling the story of the development & validation of the #WISH inventory is out @anesthesiology.bsky.social — free for the next month!

Read here how to measure the root drivers of well-being & identify the pillars of supportive work environments:

journals.lww.com/anesthesiolo...

"[...] anesthesiologists assume various critical roles—conductor, improviser, instrumentalist—to orchestrate the flow and maintain harmony within the entire ensemble [...]" In a Mind to Mind piece, Ortega and Song harmonize anesthesiology and music theory: ow.ly/C4xU50VkXE6

Flyer for DAPM symposium featuring headshots of panelists, moderators, and hosts

Join us as we celebrate Womxn’s History Month at our 5th Annual DAPM Womxn's Symposium this Wednesday, March 26th! This year's symposium theme is "Womxn Leaders & A Conversation on Work-Life Integration". We hope you can join us! To RSVP, uclahs.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Headshot of K. Elliott Higgins, III, MD

Congrats to K. Elliott Higgins, III, MD for receiving the 2025 SEAd Grant, sponsored by #SocietyforEducationinAnesthesia! “Validating a Novel Inventory to Assess Well-Being Influencers and Guide the Cultivation of Supportive Learning Environments in Anesthesiology Training.” @ehigginsmd.bsky.social

Welcome to team @uclaanes.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

It’s #MatchDay! Congratulations to all of the medical students who received their letters this week matching into #anesthesiology. Welcome to the specialty!

#anesthesiologist

🎉 The 2025 DAPM Scientific Evening on March 11th celebrated our department’s research accomplishments over the past year! From the Poster Session to Oral Presentations, there was excitement and conversation happening everywhere. Congratulations to all the awardees! 🔬 #anesthesiology #uclaanesthesia

Health Workforce Well-Being Day on March 18 flyer

Dr. Elliott Higgins presenting at NAM on Well-being influencers and WISH inventory

Dr. Higgins presenting at NAM Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience

Today is National Health Workforce Well-Being Day, organized by the National Academy of Medicine. It’s a reminder of the importance of sustainable, supported work lives for all of us.

We’re proud to be part of the NAM Clinician Well-Being Collaborative, advocating for lasting change.

@uclaanes.bsky.social

Happy #HWWBDay! Well-being is MUCH more than ≠ burnout (& in 🏥🧑‍⚕️, burnout is epidemic). We need sustainable, well-supported careers. Yesterday filled my cup— 🔥 leaders tackling this BIG problem w/ rigor, despite strong headwinds. Let’s keep at it—for us & our patients.

@nam.edu @asahq.bsky.social

Best friend/mentor ever. Thanks dude for your support always 🫶

#bestmentorever

Proud of my friend @ehigginsmd.bsky.social , an emerging leader in healthcare worker well-being, crushing it with a plenary at @nam.edu! Highlighting his vital work on measuring systemic influencers of well-being. The mentee is quickly surpassing the mentor- couldn't be happier!!

✈️🚂 DC-bound!

Off to speak @nam.edu Health Workforce Well-Being Day Event ✨

My 📣: We can’t fix what we can’t see! We need smart strategies to measure both individual well-being (e.g., burnout) and the systemic influencers that shape it. 💪

#HWWBDay

@asahq.bsky.social @uclaanes.bsky.social

Can we optimise #perioperative team performance using 'team flow'? New single-centre qualitative study by Coss et al #humanfactors #performance #teamdynamics

www.bjanaesthesia.org/article/S000...

Mike spotted this before the rest of us. 🫡

Publications from 2025 are shared more on Bluesky than on X/Twitter.

A metric that reflects reality and the @bluesky platform as the preferred one to transmit science publications with collegial communication

What is the threshold of alcohol intake that poses health risk?
A new feature @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
open-access

Thrilled to see WISH featured at @AUA_Anesthesia! ✨ Hope our work helps light the path forward for well-being improvement in healthcare.

🙏🏻 WISHwellbeing.com

#WISH #wellbeing #ASAwellbeing

journals.lww.com/anesthesiolo...

Trey and Bae

With the NIH undergoing rapid and dramatic changes, what do you see as the most effective strategy to safeguard the integrity of medical research and education to ensure a strong future for human health and the healthcare workforce?

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

In an unprecedented move, the US National Institutes of Health has begun mass terminations of research grants that fund active scientific projects because they no longer meet “agency priorities”.


https://go.nature.com/4bpG2It

A poster drawing of a pair of pink lungs looking like humans, holding a sign reading “Save Science, Save Us!”

We’re ready to #StandUpforScience Join us Friday! @standupforscience.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/73wotfn

Opinion | Truths to Remember in a Time of Lies (Gift Article) Chaos and disorientation are the goals here. But we know what’s going on behind the curtain.

One thing we can do when it seems we have no way to fight the lies hammering down on us: Tell the truth. In as many contexts as we can, to as many people as we can, for as long as we have breath, we can tell the truth. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/o...

A concern about medical A.I. is that its reliance by physicians could lead to degradation of performance. Here is one such example of de-skilling with GI doctors and colonoscopy for detection of polyps (preprint) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As doctors, researchers, and other academics flee X (formerly Twitter), @munkeatlooi.bsky.social looks at what the social network Bluesky is and why #MedSky might be worth trying
www.bmj.com/content/388/...