Linda J. Mason MD is the recipient of the 2024 Society for Pediatric Anesthesia's Myron Yaster MD lifetime achievement award
Linda J. Mason, M.D., FASA, FCAI has been a Professor of Anesthesiology and Pediatrics from February 1996 to the present at Loma Linda University and Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Mason graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1974. She took her internship in Straight Medicine at Loma Linda University Medical Center from October 1974-September 1975. Then did her residency also at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology from January 1976-June 1978 with an emphasis in Cardiac Anesthesia during the last 6 months. Dr. Mason was also the Chief Resident in Anesthesiology from January 1978-June 1978. From there she was accepted into a Pediatric Anesthesia and Intensive Care Fellowship from July 1978-July 1979 at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Dr. Mason became a diplomate in the American Board of Anesthesiology in 1980, specialty board certification. She also has special qualifications in critical care with the American Board of Anesthesiology as a secondary specialty in September 1986. In October 2013 she passed her secondary specialty boards in Pediatric Anesthesiology also with the American Board of Anesthesiology.
Dr. Mason is a member of the following societies: She has been a member of the California Society of Anesthesiologists since 1979 and she served as the President of the Society from May 2004 thru May 2005. She is currently an ASA Past President (2019 ASA President) and has been a member since 1976; Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (1997-present); Association of University Anesthesiologists (2005-present); President of the Association of Anesthesiology Subspecialty Program Directors (AASPD) (2008-2010) and is still a member; she was a Member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Review Committee for Anesthesiology (2010-2016); American Board of Anesthesiology – Pediatric Anesthesiology Question Writer (11/9/2011-12/31/2014); an Editor for the American Board of Anesthesiologist – Pediatric Anesthesiology Exam (1/1/2015-12/31/17); and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Appeals Panel – Anesthesiology (10/2021-2027); and she is currently the Board Chair for PALC.
Dr. Mason has received numerous recognitions and honors: Anesthesiology Critical Care Medicine Digby Leigh Lectureship in honor of the founder of the Department at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (January 2008); California Society of Anesthesiologists Distinguished Service Award (June 2016); Fellow of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (FASA June 2017); D.C. Children’s National Hospital – 9th Annual Willis A. McGill Honorary Lecture (May 2022); and Distinguished Academic Award of Loma Linda University Health (2022). She has presented over 675 outside lectures and Visiting Professorships during her career.