Advocacy 2026

Advocacy – it’s not a bad word. There are three major types of advocacy: self-advocacy, individual advocacy, and systems advocacy. Self advocacy means identifying your unique voice and creating your “brand.” It’s a variation of having that 30… Read More

Meme-worthy photos

While at the CSA Annual Meeting in April, we noted that the presidents of the three largest component societies (California, New York, and Texas) all had a woman as President. As far as we know, this is the… Read More

References for CSA 2026 Annual Meeting: Scheduling and AI

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ASA Candidacy

This past October, I ended up tossing my hat in the ring to run for the Vice-Speaker position at the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), for election in October 2026. The Vice-Speaker and Speaker serve as the parliamentarians… Read More

The frustrations of plugins

Posting, so that someone else won’t have to work quite as hard to solve this problem. I created a new website, installed the Wordfence plugin (version 8.1.2), got my license key for the site, installed it, and I… Read More

Tracing my Italian family

The family has long talked about visiting Italy and our grandparents’ hometown. With changes in Italian law, one can claim (reclaim?) Italian citizenship through either the paternal or maternal line. So, down the rabbit hole to collect a… Read More

Harassment, Incivility, and Disrespect references

This presentation has appeared in various formats at various meetings, and the reference list has changed slightly as new information is published. The meetings include: CSA Winter Seminar 2025 (January 2025), ASA ADVANCE (January 2025), Vituity Partnership (September… Read More

Graduation!

It’s official, I now have my Masters in Biomedical Informatics. Commencement was June 6th, but the quarter didn’t end until the 20th, so grades posted a week or so later, at which point I could truly say I… Read More

BMI 525 – Graph Exploration and Brief

Christine Doyle May 5, 2025 TYPE OF GRAPH: Bar Chart – aka Column Chart DATA: This data set was gathered as a part of a qualitative project involving interviews about organizational behavior. The individual concepts have been grouped… Read More

Selling Your Hospital, Part 2

This post was originally published on the California Society of Anesthesiologist’s (CSA) webpage on March 7, 2016 With their website rebuild, the archives were not posted. Home » CSA Online First » Christine Doyle » Selling Your Hospital, Part 2 Selling Your Hospital, Part… Read More