Amy Tsai

So honored to have been able to share some of my research and experiences in Tokyo at the 2026 International Anesthsia Symposium! ありがとうございます Dr. Kaz Ando and Dr. Yasuko Nagasaka for organizing and inviting me!

Nothing like drinking out of a mug with your own @CellReports cover art. Thanks @DavidASpain! ☕️ 🔗 Read the article here: brnw.ch/21wXBdR

Personalized prehabilitation improved physical and cognitive function, altered immune signaling, and reduced postoperative complications compared to standard programs in elective surgery patients. ja.ma/3JVIugo

Thank you to my co-authors Vinh Cao, and Romain Lagarde for their hard work, and senior authors Drs. Craig Heller and Brice Gaudilliere for their mentorship and insights. ☺️

My latest preprint is up! Exercise can contribute to physiological heat stress, leading to a transient period of immunosuppression and an increased incidence of infections. We mitigated some of these immune alterations using palmar cooling in this RCT! 🖐️medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our paper officially out in JAMA Surgery! 😷 So excited that we get to share this with everyone and hopefully encourage all future patients to look into prehab before surgery!🏥 #250664045" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">jamanetwork.com/journals/jamas…

New feature on our paper! 🥳 Thank you to @StanfordSurgery and @stanfordanes for making this happen! *Mental and physical coaching before surgery prepares immune system, reduces complications* med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/…

Last week’s @StanfordSurgery Alumni Lectureship Grand Rounds, hosted by Dr. @electronkebebew, featured an inspiring talk by Dr. Cindy Kin — “Finding Home, in the U.S. and in Surgery.” 🩺✨ 🎥 Watch the full presentation here: youtu.be/k8na-vj2CSE

A little sneak peek of the beautiful kidneys I get to work with every day as a result of this grant! (Is it just me or does that CNBx look like Taiwan? 🇹🇼)

A little belated, but massive thanks to the @NIH for funding my F32 titled "Characterizing the Renal Immune Microenvironment in Antibody-Mediated Rejection to Predict Treatment Response using Imaging Mass Cytometry" reporter.nih.gov/search/Mclc-xx…

Personalized prehab reprograms the immune “set point” before surgery: patients showed cell-type–specific reductions in pro-inflammatory signaling (e.g. pERK, pCREB) and fewer severe complications compared to a standard prehab program. #PrecisionMedicine #Prehabilitation

💡Why personalized prehabilitation matters: it’s not just “do more exercise” — this study shows multifaceted prehabilitation tunes your immunome preoperatively to reduce risks and boost recovery.

Super proud to announce that our paper was just accepted into JAMA surgery! Massive collaboration between the Departments of Anesthesiology and General Surgery! @OpNotes @StanfordSurgery @stanfordanes @GaudilliereLab Preprint linked here: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40502574/

@aanieldhn @Nikhil15 @KiranKhush1 @WF_Parker @StanfordSurgery @StanfordGenSurg @OpNotes @StanfordAbdTxp Major congrats Daniel, this is eye-opening work!

medrxiv.org/content/10.110… Here's a preprint of a project I've been working on over the past several weeks with Dr. @Nikhil15, Dr. @KiranKhush1, Dr. @WF_Parker, and Dr. Sasaki ! @StanfordSurgery @StanfordGenSurg @OpNotes @StanfordAbdTxp

Amazing opportunity to listen to Dr. Ina Stelzer present on the immune effects of microchimerism in pregnancy at the 2025 World Transplant Congress. @inannelies #WTC2025

3 of our surgeon scientists received funding from the Transplant and Tissue Engineering Center of Excellence this year! Congratulations to Drs. James Agolia, @chunerguo , and @amytsaii  🎉

Did you know that cooling your palms for 3 minutes between sets can dramatically decrease delayed muscle soreness and increase exercise capacity?! Thank you for giving us to chance to present our work at the Annual Stanford Anesthesia Research Dinner!

Missed #Holman25? @OpNotes's @amytsaii presented an astonishing study looking at the effect of young plasma on post-operative inflammation in older patients 📺 Watch: youtu.be/vQuGbmcJKoo?sf… @stanfordanes @GaudilliereLab

Thank you for the opportunity to present!