Efrat Lelkes, MD

Title(s)Associate Professor, Pediatrics
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address550 16th. Street
San Francisco CA 94158
Phone415-476-5153
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    University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public HealthMD2006
    University of Chicago2009Pediatrics
    University of California San Francisco2013Pediatric Critical Care
    Mercy Children's, Kansas City, Missouri2016Pediatric Bioethics
    University of Washingon2017Hospice and Palliative Medicine
    University of California, San Francisco, CA2019Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training

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    Efrat Lelkes is a pediatric critical care and palliative care physician who is interesting in fostering an increased understanding and integration of bioethics in pediatrics to ameliorate moral distress and enhance meaning in medicine for providers. Through clinical ethics, multidisciplinary education and narrative ethics, she aims to strengthen our ability to provide excellent care, advance pediatric medicine further, and care for the sickest of children.
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    1. Is this as good as it gets? Implications of an asymptotic mortality decline and approaching the nadir in pediatric intensive care. Eur J Pediatr. 2022 Feb; 181(2):479-487. Moynihan KM, Lelkes E, Kumar RK, DeCourcey DD. PMID: 34599379.
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    2. Palliative Sedation. . 2020 Oct 29; 305-315. Rhee RE, Lelkes LE, Morrison MW. .
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    3. Should Decision Making Be Shared in High-Risk Pediatric Heart Donation? AMA J Ethics. 2020 05 01; 22(5):E401-407. Lelkes E, Patel A, Joong A, Gossett JG. PMID: 32449656.
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    4. Should Physicians Offer a Ventricular Assist Device to a Pediatric Oncology Patient With a Poor Prognosis? AMA J Ethics. 2019 05 01; 21(5):E380-386. Patel A, Joong A, Lelkes E, Gossett JG. PMID: 31127916.
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    5. Trauma-informed Palliative Care: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Assessing and Treating Patients and Families with Trauma- and Stress-Related Symptoms (SA505). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2018 Feb 1; 55(2):639-640. Huang HC, Dionne-Odom DJ, Bickel BK, Lelkes LE, Kvale KE, MacPhee ME. .
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    6. Humility Through Humiliation in Continuity Clinic. Perspect Biol Med. 2016; 59(3):419-424. Lelkes E. PMID: 28479583.
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    7. The spatiotemporal cellular dynamics of lung immunity. Trends Immunol. 2014 Aug; 35(8):379-86. Lelkes E, Headley MB, Thornton EE, Looney MR, Krummel MF. PMID: 24974157; PMCID: PMC4124173.
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    8. 162 Regulatory T cells modulate systemic illness following acute lung injury. Cytokine. 2013 Sep 1; 63(3):281. Lelkes LE, Looney LM, Krummel KM. .
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    9. Reactive oxygen species, apoptosis and altered NGF-induced signaling in PC12 pheochromocytoma cells cultured in elevated glucose: an in vitro cellular model for diabetic neuropathy. Neurotox Res. 2001 Apr; 3(2):189-203. Lelkes E, Unsworth BR, Lelkes PI. PMID: 14715473.
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