Curriculum Vitae

Education

Degrees:
MD: 1989, Creighton University School of Medicine
MBI: 2025, Oregon Health & Science University

Residency:
University of California, San Francisco: Preliminary Surgery
University of Nevada: General Surgery
University of California, San Francisco: Trauma Research Fellow
Stanford University: Anesthesiology
Stanford University: Critical Care Fellowship

Positions

Current:

Partner, Vituity, Anesthesia Division, O’Connor Hospital
– 2016 to present
– Assistant Medical Director, Informatics

Staff Physician, Department of Anesthesia, O’Connor Hospital, Santa Clara Valley Healthcare
– 2002 to present
– Chair, Department of Anesthesiology

Past:

Partner, Coast Anesthesia Medical Group
– 2002 – 2016 (when merged into Vituity)
– President 2009-2016
Veterans Administration, Palo Alto
– 2012-2021

Leadership

ASA
  • Director from California, 2023 to present
  • Board Review Committee on Administrative Affairs, Chair 2026, Member 2024-2026
  • Bylaws Committee, Vice Chair 2022 to present; member 2019 to 2021
  • Educational Track Subcommittee on Critical Care, Chair 2022 to present; Vice-Chair 2019-2021; member 2013 to present
  • Physician Well-Being Committee, subcommittee on Harassment, Incivility, and Disrespect, member 2024 to present
  • House of Delegates Credentials Committee, Chair 2021-2023; Member 2013-2023
  • Chair, Electronic Media and Information Technology (EMIT) Committee, 2009-2015; member 2001-2021 (note committee is now called the Committee on Informatics and Information Technology, CIIT)
CSA
  • Director to ASA, 2023 to present
  • Past President, 2021 to present
  • Immediate Past President, 2020-2021
  • President, 2019-2020
  • President-Elect, 2018-2019
  • Speaker, 2014-2018
  • Vice-Speaker, 2011-2014
  • GASPAC Board, 2008 to present; Treasurer 2009-2019
Hospital & Health System
  • Department Chair, 2019 to present (also 2008-2009)
  • Member, Bylaws Committee, Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, 2019 to present
  • Member, Transfusion Review Committee, Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, 2020 to present
  • Member, Physician Policy Review Team, 2021 to present
  • President-Elect, Medical Staff, 2015-2016
  • Chair O’Connor Hospital Advisory (Bylaws) Committee 2019, member 2011-2018
CMA/SCCMA:
  • CMA Delegate from SCCMA, 2021 to present
  • SCCMA Vice-President, External Affairs, 2022 to present
  • SCCMA External Affairs Committee, 2021 to present (also 1996-2000)
Other:
  • SOCCA, Director, 2007 – 2014; Webmaster, 2002-2014
  • San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions (SFSFC), Director, 2022 to present
  • Worldcon 76 (2018), Programming Division Director, 2016-2018
  • Westercon 66 (2013), Programming Division Director, 2012-2013

Publications

Spitzer Y, Kraus M, Doyle CA.  “We’re #1… and That’s Bad:  Anesthesiology Has the Highest Rates of HID,” ASA Monitor, 89(11):p12-13, November 2025.
DOI:  10.1097/01.ASM.0001171304.62919.6a

Muse I, Doyle CA, Markowitz SD, Lin DM. “ASA Statement on Harassment, Incivility, and Disrespect: Why, How, What… and Why Now,” ASA Monitor, 89(2):1-5, February 2025.
https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0001098100.63424.5e

Idowu O, Lewis A, Doyle CA. “Perioperative Implications of Biologics and Immunotherapy” Advances in Anesthesia, 42(2024), 97-113.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aan.2024.07.008

O’Reilly-Shah V, Nikravan S, King NM, Crawford A, Hopf HW, Doyle CA. “The World Turned Upside Down: What does the response to a pandemic and a Supreme Court decision say about a medical specialty?” Medium.com, Oct 11, 2022.
https://oreillyshah.medium.com/the-world-turned-upside-down-what-does-the-response-to-a-pandemic-and-a-supreme-court-decision-say-45824cb58b18

Hertzberg LB, Miller TR, Byerly S, Rebello E, Flood P, Malinzak EB, Doyle CA, Pease S, Rock-Klotz JA, Kraus MB, Pai SL, “Gender Differences in Compensation in Anesthesiology in the United States:  Results of a National Survey of Anesthesiologists,”  Anesthesia & Analgesia, 133(4):1009-1018, October 2021.  DOI.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000005676

Kraus, Molly B. MD; Hertzberg, Linda B. MD; Rebello, Elizabeth MD; Malinzak, Elizabeth B. MD; Doyle, Christine A. MD; Pai, Sher-Lu MD, “In Response,” Anesthesia & Analgesia: 134(4):e20-21, April 2022.
doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005910

Malinzak, Elizabeth B. MD; Hertzberg, Linda B. MD; Doyle, Christine A. MD; Flood, Pamela MD; Kraus, Molly B. MD; Rebello, Elizabeth MD; Pai, Sher-Lu MD; Pease, Sonya MD, MBA, “In Response,” Anesthesia & Analgesia: 134(4):e23-24, April 2022. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000005914

Doyle CA, “How the Pandemic is Changing the Face of Anesthesiology,”, Vituity.com, 9/22/2020.
https://www.vituity.com/healthcare-insights/how-the-pandemic-is-changing-the-face-of-anesthesiology

Doyle CA, “Health Information Technology Use for Quality Assurance and Improvement,” in Ruskin KJ, Stielger MP, Rosenbaum, SH (eds):  Quality and Safety in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Oxford University Press, 2016.  DOI.org/10.1093/med/9780199366149.001.0001

Galvez J, Rothman B, Doyle C, Morgan S, Simpao AF, Rehman M, “A Narrative Review of Meaningful Use and Anesthesia Information Management Systems,”  Anesthesia & Analgesia, 121(3):693-706, September 2015.  DOI.org/10.1213/ANE.0000000000000881

Trentman TL, Mueller JT, Ruskin KJ, Doyle CA, Noble BN, “Adoption of Anesthesia Information Management Systems by US Anesthesiologists,” Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, 25(2): 129-135, 2011.  DOI.org/10.1007/s10877-011-9289-x

Doyle CA, “Remote Meeting Technologies,” ASA Newsletter, April 2010, 74(4):10-11.

Doyle CA, Wilson ML, “Integration of AIMS and ORMS,” IN Stonemetz J, Ruskin KJ,  (eds): Anesthesia Informatics,  Springer, 2008.  ISBN 978-0-387-76418-4

Doyle CA, “Professionalism in Electronic Communications,” ASA Newsletter, May 2008, 72(5):9-11.

Doyle CA, Pearl RG, “Prevention and Treatment of Pulmonary Dysfunction,”  IN Newman MF, Fleisher LA, Fink MP (eds):  Perioperative Medicine:  Managing for Outcome, Elsevier, 2007.
ISBN 978-1-4160-2456-9

Doyle CA and Rosenthal MH, “Hypotension and Shock States,”  IN Lobato EB, Gravenstein N, Kirby RR (eds):  Complications in Anesthesiology, 3d, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2007.
ISBN 978-0-7817-8263-0

Doyle C, and Angelotti T.  “Detection of an unsuspected maternal hemorrhage via a fetal heart rate tracing.”  Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, September 2004, 16:465-468. 
DOI.org/10.1016/j.jclinane.2003.11.005

Doyle CA, and the Committee on Electronic Media and Information Technology,  “Choosing an Automated Medical Records System,” accessed via  www.asahq.org/clinical/ChoosinganAutomatedMedicalRecordsSystem.pdf, July 2004. 

Doyle CA, Pearl RG, “Respiratory Complications and Management,” IN Kaplan JA, Lake CL, Murray MJ (eds): Vascular Anesthesia, 2d, Elsevier, 2004. 
ISBN 978-0-443-06620-7

Soto RG, Doyle CA, and the Committee on Electronic Media and Information Technology, “Anesthesiologists and Web Site Creation,” ASA Newsletter, April 2003, 67(4):14-15.

Doyle CA, “Politics and Residency: Your Real Life Starts Now,” ASA Newsletter, April 2000, 64(4):15-16.

Thomson S, Yee L, Doyle C, “Pop Anesthesia:  May the Force Be With You!”  CSA Bulletin, November – December 1999, 48(6):44-46.

Manley GT, Pitts LH, Morabito D, Doyle CA, Gibson J, Gimbel M, Hopf HW, Knudson MM, “Brain Tissue Oxygenation during Hemorrhagic Shock, Resuscitation, and Alterations in Ventilation,” Journal of Trauma, 1999, 46(2):261-267.

Doyle CA, Gibson JJ, Morabito DJ, Manley GT, Hopf HW, Campbell AC, Knudson MM, “Use of Tissue Oxygen Measurement to Predict Ischemic Changes in Gut Mucosa,” presented at Southwestern Surgical Congress, April 19-22, 1998.

Manley GT, Doyle CA, Gibson JJ, Morabito DJ, Hopf HW, Pitts L, Knudson MM, “Direct Monitoring of Brain Tissue Oxygenation During Hemorrhagic Shock and Resuscitation,”  presented at Western Trauma Association, March 8-12, 1998.

Knudson MM, Bermudez KM, Doyle CA, Mackersie RC, Hopf HW, Morabito DJ, “Use of Tissue Oxygen Tension Measurements During Resuscitation from Hemorrhagic Shock,” Journal of Trauma, 1997, 42(4):608-616.

Presentations

Doyle CA, Bernstein O, Ku C, Arnzen A.  “Transporting ICU Paitents:  Keeping Them Safe,” presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, 10/14/2025, San Antonio, TX.

Iverson MA, Lubinskyu G, Doyle CA.  “Point-Counterpoint – Is This Patient Too Sick for Regional Anesthesia?,” presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, 10/14/2025, San Antonio, TX.

Doyle CA, Markowitz SD, Spitzer Y.  “Connect-Learn-Continue – Incivility in the Workplace and How to Handle It,” presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, 10/11/2025, San Antonio, TX.

Doyle CA, Khurana A. “Harassment, Incivility, and Disrespect in the Workplace — and How to Handle It,” presentation at Vituity Partnership Meeting, 9/26/2025, Hollywood, FL.

Demaria S, Doyle CA, Spitzer Y. “Incivility in the Workplace and How to Handle It,” presentation at ASA ADVANCE 2025, 1/31/2025, Atlanta, GA.

Doyle CA. “Incivility in the Workplace and How to Handle It,” presentation at CSA Winter Hawaiian Seminar, January 2025, Ka’anapali, HI.

Doyle CA, Hosseinian L, Idowu O, Hingula L, Zafirova Z, “Immunotherapies in the Perioperative Period: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,” presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, October 16, 2023, San Francisco, CA.

Doyle CA, “Revenue Cycle Management:  History, Evolution, Documentation & Coding, and Business Models,” presentation at ASA ADVANCE, 1/28/2023, Orlando, FL.

Doyle CA, “Understanding Risk & Uncertainty,” presentation at CSA Fall Hawaiian Seminar, November 2022, Kohala, Big Island, HI.

Doyle CA, “Leadership & Management,” presentation at CSA Fall Hawaiian Seminar, November 2022, Kohala, Big Island, HI.

Doyle CA, “Post-COVID:  What do we need to know?,” presentation at CSA Fall Hawaiian Seminar, November 2022, Kohala, Big Island, HI.

Doyle CA, Mariano ER, Richardson PJ, Obiyo L, Nabipour S, “Back to School!  The Value of a Second (or Third) Degree,” presentation at CSA Fall Hawaiian Seminar, November 2022, Kohala, Big Island, HI.

Doyle CA, Hosseinian L, Idowu O, Lewis A, Zafirova Z, “Immunotherapies in the Perioperative Period: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly,” presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, October 25, 2022, New Orleans, LA.

Nunnaly M, Tung A, Doyle CA, “Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow:  How Clinicians Think to Make Decisions,” presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, October 22, 2022, New Orleans, LA.

Doyle CA, Idowu O, Mucha S, “Steroid Emergency at 2am:  Why you need to know about -ibs, -mabs, and precision medicine,” self-study presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, October 9, 2021, San Diego, CA.

Padmanabhan A, Warrier S, Laufer D, Dew L, Doyle, CA, “Mind the Gap:  Bridging the Gap between Wanting to be a Leader and Getting There, a Practical Guide for Women in Anesthesia,” presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, October 3, 2020, virtual.

Doyle CA, “Practice Management:  Lessons From the Front Lines,” presentation at CSA Winter Hawaiian Seminar, February 12, 2020, Wailea, Maui, HI.

Doyle CA, “Cleared for Surgery!  The PreOp Clinic in Private Practice,” presentation at CSA Winter Hawaiian Seminar, February 9, 2020, Wailea, Maui, HI.

Doyle CA, “Practice Management:  Lessons From the Front Lines,” presentation at CSA Fall Hawaiian Seminar, November 7, 2019, Poipu, Kauai, HI. 

Cowles C, Wilks J, Tsai J, Doyle CA, “Rare Events that Could Leave Your Patient Seared and Your Career Well Done – Electrosurgical Safety and Fundamentals,” presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, October 19, 2019, Orlando, FL. 

Doyle CA, Stahl D, “OB to Oh No!  What the Anesthesiologist Needs to Care for the Critically Ill Parturient,” presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, Oct 16, 2018, San Francisco, CA.

Doyle CA, Moore J, Feinstein D, “Point-Counterpoint:  Electronic Health Records Cause Patient Harm,” presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, Oct 22, 2016, Chicago, IL.

Doyle CA, “Implementing Perioperative IT?  Don’t Forget Key Components,” presentation at HIMSS16 Conference & Exhibition, March 1, 2016, Las Vegas, NV.

Doyle CA, Moore J, Feinstein D, “Point-Counterpoint:  Electronic Health Records Improve Patient Care – Or Do They?”, (pro) presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, Oct 26, 2015, San Diego, CA.

Doyle CA, Moore J, Feinstein D, “Point-Counterpoint:  Electronic Health Records Improve Patient Care – Or Do They?”, (con) presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, Oct 14, 2014, New Orleans, LA.

“Computing Technology Workshops,” EMIT committee presentations at ASA Annual Meeting, October 13, 2013, San Francisco, CA.

Ruskin KJ, Doyle, CA, Sheridan TM, Albright BE, “Anesthesia in Unusual Environments:  Using Technology to Improve Patient Safety,” the STA Breakfast Panel at ASA Annual Meeting, Oct 16, 2012, Washington, DC.

Doyle CA, Moore J, Marian A, Cheng D, “Leadership in Information Technology by Anesthesiologists,” EMIT panel presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, Oct 15, 2012, Washington, DC.  

Doyle CA, “Hot Topics” presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, Oct 15, 2012, Washington, DC.

Doyle CA, Reich DL, Goldman JM,  Rothman B, “Leadership in Information Technology by Anesthesiologists,”  EMIT panel presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, Oct 18, 2011, Chicago, IL.

Jain U, Dutton RP, Murray MJ, Doyle, CA, “Trauma:  What Every Anesthesiologists Should Know,” COTEP panel presentation at ASA Annual Meeting, Oct 17, 2011, Chicago, IL.

McIsaac J, Antoine A, Doyle CA, McQueen K, “Disaster Preparedness for Anesthesiologists,” COTEP panel presentation at ASA Annual Meeting Oct 19, 2009, New Orleans, LA.   

Doyle CA, “New Therapies in ARDS,” Panel on Critical Care, ASA Annual Meeting, presented October 15, 2001, New Orleans, LA.

Maternity Ward:  Hard Labor, original airdate March 17, 2000 (The Learning Channel).

Media

KPFA: About Health, live on-air interview “Pandemic Update,” December 21, 2020, available at:
https://kpfa.org/episode/about-health-december-21-2020/ 

Straight Talk MD, podcast “Coronavirus Update #7,” August 20, 2020, available at:
http://straighttalkmd.com/podcast/coronavirus-update-7-august-20-2020-with-dr-christine-doyle/